http://blech.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ batteries not included en Vox Tue, 13 May 2008 08:43:49 +0100 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/hybridd.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Paul Mison) http://blech.vox.com/library/post/hybridd.html?_c=feed-rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/hybridd.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 13 May 2008 08:43:49 +0100 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 ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/post/hybridd.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d985ff21900e398f91e790004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> perl mac os x battlestar galactica science fiction silly software unix daemon syslog hybridd tom rocks http://blech.vox.com/library/post/photoshop-express-and-flickr.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Paul Mison) http://blech.vox.com/library/post/photoshop-express-and-flickr.html?_c=feed-rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/photoshop-express-and-flickr.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 11 May 2008 09:31:46 +0100 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2251d985ff21900f48cf6ef360003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00c2251d985ff21900f48cf6ef360003-50si" alt="Construction (Original)" /></a> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2251d985ff21900f48cf6ef8e0003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00c2251d985ff21900f48cf6ef8e0003-50si" alt="Construction (Edited)" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/post/photoshop-express-and-flickr.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d985ff21900e398f8896f0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> flickr photoshop review photoshop express http://blech.vox.com/library/post/gecko-and-firebug-the-webdev-platform.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Paul Mison) http://blech.vox.com/library/post/gecko-and-firebug-the-webdev-platform.html?_c=feed-rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/gecko-and-firebug-the-webdev-platform.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 07 May 2008 22:58:37 +0100 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 ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/post/gecko-and-firebug-the-webdev-platform.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d985ff21900f48cf5e0830003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> opera browsers web development firebug firefox http://blech.vox.com/library/post/terminals-big-applescript-bug.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Paul Mison) http://blech.vox.com/library/post/terminals-big-applescript-bug.html?_c=feed-rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/terminals-big-applescript-bug.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:29:17 +0100 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/post/terminals-big-applescript-bug.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d985ff21900f48d11f8c30001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> apple terminal programming bug applescript radar script http://blech.vox.com/library/post/why-dont-you.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Paul Mison) http://blech.vox.com/library/post/why-dont-you.html?_c=feed-rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/why-dont-you.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:30:41 +0100 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/book/6a00c2251d985ff21900e398f4882f0005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00c2251d985ff21900e398f4882f0005-50si" alt="Get a Life!: The Little Red Book of the White Dot" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/post/why-dont-you.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d985ff21900e398f488fc0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> television internet turn off tv mental detox http://blech.vox.com/library/post/more-aggregation-definitions.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Paul Mison) http://blech.vox.com/library/post/more-aggregation-definitions.html?_c=feed-rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/more-aggregation-definitions.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:00:21 +0100 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/post/more-aggregation-definitions.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d985ff21900e398f44c1e0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> rss aggregation personal sites activity streams defintion http://blech.vox.com/library/post/further-webkit-vs-gecko-thoughts.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Paul Mison) http://blech.vox.com/library/post/further-webkit-vs-gecko-thoughts.html?_c=feed-rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/further-webkit-vs-gecko-thoughts.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:50:03 +0100 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/post/further-webkit-vs-gecko-thoughts.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d985ff21900e398f1a2390004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> safari browsers web html development firefox gecko webkit layout engines http://blech.vox.com/library/post/more-transport-informatics.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Paul Mison) http://blech.vox.com/library/post/more-transport-informatics.html?_c=feed-rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/more-transport-informatics.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:30:23 +0100 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. ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/post/more-transport-informatics.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d985ff21900f48cef9d8f0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> bus london transport walking informatics rail http://blech.vox.com/library/post/layout_engine_musings.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Paul Mison) http://blech.vox.com/library/post/layout_engine_musings.html?_c=feed-rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/layout_engine_musings.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:59:31 +0100 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/post/layout_engine_musings.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d985ff21900f48cee84020002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> safari browsers css web html development javascript firefox gecko webkit layout engines http://blech.vox.com/library/post/rotate_video_for_flickr.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Paul Mison) http://blech.vox.com/library/post/rotate_video_for_flickr.html?_c=feed-rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/rotate_video_for_flickr.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:47:11 +0100 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, ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/post/rotate_video_for_flickr.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d985ff21900f48cee21340002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> flickr video command line mplayer mencoder