August 2004
Aug. 17, 2004
Avoiding the dreaded Refresh (via) This upset me.
Enter The Matrix. The most incredible user interface I’ve ever seen.
Brain Hacks (via) I am SO looking forward to this.
RealPlayer 10 for Linux (and thoughts on Real). Russell Beattie has something nice to say about Real!
Aug. 18, 2004
Python in Air Traffic Control (via) Python goes mission critical.
CocoaBooklet. PDF as a global printing format for OS X gets even better.
Google Search: “hypertext links to this site, you must contact”. More dumb linking policies than you can shake a stupid stick at.
Aug. 19, 2004
Site specific stylesheets in Mozilla
New in Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 3: bug 238099—implement at-rule for matching on site/document URL. Here’s the example:
[... 111 words]XML.com: Identifying Atom. The hidden complexity of URIs is fascinating.
Woeful Circulation for Just Retailed Digital Edition of Newspapers. Not as bad as I originally thought.
Toogle Search: ball of twine. It’s me in ASCII.
Using Nicecast to send any audio to AirPort Express. A $20 shareware app and a clever workaround.
Aug. 20, 2004
manipulator :: personal work. Photos of monkeys, by a celebrity photographer.
New design for mozilla.org (via) Even nicer than the last one.
Apache Module mod_actions. Channel all requests for a specific file type through a CGI script.
IE Objectifier (via) mod_action + XSLT + PHP = neat hack.
Aug. 23, 2004
Sam Ruby: Electronic Forgery. A nice, simple explanation of the collision in MD5.
A snarky note from the administrator
No, you can’t have a Gmail invite. No, I won’t hack your email account for you. And if you can’t find your hotmail inbox, you shouldn’t be using a computer.
[... 44 words]Aug. 25, 2004
GeorgeWBush.com: Write News Editors (via) Talking points for point and click Republicans.
Spot the easter egg. It’s awesome...
Aug. 26, 2004
Latest WSGI Draft. The Python Web-SIG are working on a PEP.
The Colors! The OS X colour picker is way more powerful than I had realised.
Apache Module Idea: mod_ping. Smart thinking.
Alleviate RSI the Hacker Way (via) Jono Bacon takes on RSI. I’ve been using AntiRSI for a few months now.
1000th Blogmark
I just posted my 1000th blogmark. I can’t emphasize enough how much of an impact this 15 minute hack has had on both my browsing and my blogging habits. While I still tend to leave browser windows open for days at a time, I now at least have a procedure for getting rid of the ones that still interest me. More importantly, having blogmarks has eliminated the temptation to write a full blog entry (with quotation) just to share a link. This has dramatically reduced my posting rate, but has meant that when I do post an entry I usually have something moderately interesting to say.
[... 181 words]QT’s Diary (via) Yes, it really is Quentin Tarantino, and he really has a blog.
Tarantino’s ’Casino’ Blog a Hoax (via) If it’s a hoax, it’s a damn good one.
Roger Avary: It’s bogus (via) More on the fake Tarantino blog.
Aug. 27, 2004
The Top Ten Subversion Tips for CVS Users. I’m getting in to the Subversion vibe.
Half-Life 2 Pre-Loading Begins (via) Gameplay.com were working on this kind of thing when I worked there, but never really got anywhere with it.