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I was talking with Mike Trausch yesterday (among other things he’s the developer of AllTray) and during the conversation we started talking about tech movies. I mentioned the excellent Pirates of Sillicon Valley and Mike in turn said his personal favorite was Antitrust. I hadn’t seen Antitrust before and after watching it I have [...]
I wanted to post a diff earlier today so I started by looking for a WordPress plugin that would integrate a syntax highlighter, I quickly found in the form of WP-Syntax which utilizes GeSHi (a server side syntax highlighter). However, turns out the default Hybrid theme applies an ugly background image to any pre [...]
I’m quite content with using Identi.ca, a microblogging service that runs on top of the open source microblogging engine Laconica, where thankfully custom backgrounds are just not done (no patches please). On that other microblogging site however, you know the anti-freedom one, that’s most definitely not the case. Some folks have even build an entire [...]
I’ve been using IndustrialTango for years now and am stuck in my ways. Now that I’ve switched from Metacity to Compiz an ugly issue with Industrial Tango’s window border theme reared its head, for every window the window icon on the top left would not display. Instead of switching to a different window border theme [...]
It’s pretty nifty how in summary view WordPress will (sometimes?) take the first image encountered and use it as a thumbnail and even automatically crops it.
TODO:
I have a post where I had added an image and later removed it, Wordpress still uses this image as a thumbnail (click on one of the associated tags to [...]
I wish WordPress had a URL alias system like Drupal does. Now with WordPress it seems you can’t update the post title or change the permalink scheme without breaking all previous links
Why did I actually choose WordPress over Drupal? It may have had something to do with that word that starts with a u and [...]
While writing one of the previous blog posts it occurred to me that I was using “Even though” quite a few times (now corrected).
“Even though it’s a little bit slower on my system”
“I haven’t yet actually used the Expose plugin, even though I do organize things using virtual desktops. “
“Even though I’m hoping for more [...]
I wish WordPress would support some hybrid mode which would allow you to directly use HTML in visual mode. I think Atlassian’s Confluence actually supports this kind of thing.
It’s quite cool how WordPress remembers what mode (Visual versus HTML) you were previously in and the size of the editor when writing a blog post .
TODO:
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Dear Lazyweb, is it just me or does GNOME Do’s advanced text entry (<.>) mode still seem severely limited? It doesn’t seem to support text cursor movement, selection and I can use only a single line break at a time. I’m not sure why they wouldn’t just use a stylized multi-line GtkEntry widget (or possibly [...]
Something related to the previous post and something that I think would be quite useful is if GNOME Do’s Window Manager plugin by Jason Smith supported textually searching through the window titles and then focusing the application it found. It currently only supports searching for application names. Using libwnck this is actually quite easy. Focus [...]
Ater some experimenting I’ve switched from Metacity to Compiz, even though it’s a little bit slower on my system. I’ve disabled all animations and whatnot as I don’t care for that, but what drew me was the potential usefulness of certain plugins for window management. I’m currently trying to get used to a particular combination [...]
I was interested in somebody usage of Tomboy and this made me think about how recording screencasts has become incredibly easy with recordMyDesktop, but the process afterwards could probably still be improved. I’m mostly thinking about easily sharing the result (with proper compression etc.).
Interestingly enough Tyler also blogged about recordMyDestkop a few days ago (“man [...]