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hybridd(8) - poetic nonsense for syslog

2008-05-13T07:43:49Z

Today's stupid software idea comes courtesy of the most recent episode of Battlestar Galactica, which featured (as some previous stories have) the Hybrid, the organic controller of a Cylon base star (aka the big pointy bad guy space ships). This ...

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Photoshop Express and Flickr

2008-05-11T08:31:46Z

When Adobe first launched Photoshop Express (from hereon in, PX) a month and a half or so ago, it featured integration with three online sites: Facebook, Photobucket, and Picasa. Unfortunately, I don't use any of those for photos. So when I saw th...

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Gecko, Firebug, and web development

2008-05-07T21:58:37Z

Opera just launched their alpha of Dragonfly, "the foundations of Opera's upcoming Developer Tools", which prompted Tom to note that "Firebug seems to have defined the universe for this lot." ('This lot' includes Safari's Web Inspector, which is ...

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Terminal's Big AppleScript Bug

2008-04-29T21:29:17Z

I've never been one of the people who's seen a need to use any terminal application in Mac OS X other than the one supplied by Apple in Utilities. It does the job, uses Monaco 9, doesn't anti-alias (or at least, can be made not to). It starts up i...

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Why Don't You?

2008-04-28T21:30:41Z

Chris Heathcote has a great post - everything ie anything - which looks at a couple of points in Clay Shirky's much-linked Web 2.0 conference keynote about television, web 2.0 content creation, and the "social surplus". Chris says I find it a fli...

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More Aggregation Definitions

2008-04-28T11:00:21Z

In the wake of Zeldman's post, two definitions: Shallow Aggregation: what I do. A single home page that pulls in concept from other sites, but where the links leave my site to go instead to the place the content is hosted. Deep Aggregation; what...

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Further WebKit vs Gecko Thoughts

2008-04-19T22:50:03Z

Earlier this week, I published a post entitled Hackability: Gecko vs WebKit. Actually, it sort of snuck out in the middle of the night; as is my wont, I left it as a neighbourhood-only draft overnight, only to find that Simon had turned up and mad...

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More Transport Informatics

2008-04-18T10:30:23Z

Dan Hill posted an incredibly wide-ranging roundup of developments in transport informatics a couple of days ago on his site, and it's justifiably been widely linked to by the sort of people who care about such things. Of course, I'm one of them. ...

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Hackability: Gecko vs WebKit

2008-04-14T22:59:31Z

This post has been brewing for a while, but I've been prompted to actually write it by seeing John Gruber's offhand remark on his most recent linked list entry, about CSS gradients in WebKit: Just me, or is WebKit racing way ahead of Gecko in term...

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Rotating Video for Flickr - Solved

2008-04-13T18:47:11Z

As hoped, after my previous post detailing my failure to rotate a video for display on Flickr, I've had a useful hint which has since led to me successfully uploading a couple of videos. Gareth pointed me at a page detailing how to use mencoder, ...

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