For my entire programming career (that is to say, my whole life), I’ve been searching for a solution to what I call “Coder’s block”. Roughly half of the days I sit down in front of my editor I find that I simply can’t get started. I’d imagine anyone who has been coding for longer than […]

Practically everyone on the web has, at some point in our browsing career, lost a login name or it’s password, requiring us to put ourselves through the terrifying automated reset-or-retrieval process. Usually this is about as difficult as clicking a link, waiting four seconds, and checking our inbox. We bang our heads against our keyboards […]

When there are a lot of resulting torrents for a search on mininova I always end up resorting them by seeds to force the best results to the top (hurray for the accidental power of the social web!), so I modified the existing mininova search plugin to save myself a step.
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And technology marches on….

Adobe released a beta of Photoshop CS3, with numerous improvements to the user interface that I’ve been enjoying. (You can get a user/pass at bugmenot if you want to try it out).
Mozilla Thunderbird also received a much-needed GUI makeover as well as some important new features (tagging among them) in the first […]

While a purist might keep faithfully hitting the refresh button on all the major browsers, tweaking his CSS until he turns #1f5acf in the face (or his startup budget runs out, whichever comes first), your time is worth more than that. A quick-and-easy solution for the rest of us is to serve up a different […]

This morning I find myself eating breakfast at the low-tech but tasty Corner View Restaurant. As it turns out, the place is situated just between wifi hotpsots….and my laptop’s internal wifi nic can’t quite reach either of them. This would not normally be a problem, since my EVDO phone can be tethered to my laptop […]

The other night my trusty feedreader alerted me to a Nitobi post demonstrating a fisheye menu (think Mac OS X dock) in javascript as a part of their upcoming library. A neat effect, to be sure…and useful as well; menu design is so often reduced to a balancing act between the number of items displayed […]

Well, that’s because it is. It’s been a long time since my last post, and a lot has changed. So let’s just get the important stuff out of the way, shall we? In order of importance (start scanning when personal relevance begins to dwindle)…

I’ve jumped ship to the Wordpress publishing system, which is infinitely better […]