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Since November 2009 I’ve been playing Modern Warfare 2 with a bunch of online friends and while the game is not without its problems, I have absolutely fallen in love with its party and matchmaking system. It’s great to be able to just hook up with a bunch of friends and not have to concern [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]