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Entries About Geekiness

Notes on Open Source Search Engines 04/12/07 7:59 PM

I’ve been investigating various open source search engines/ spiders to implement here since I’ve got a mix of static and…

Subversion Quirks with Samba Shares on OSX 01/09/07 10:40 AM

This may only affect Subversion 1.2.3 on Mac OSX when using working copies on an SMB share, but I’m not…

Notes on XML and Scripting InDesign 12/15/06 8:03 AM

I’ve been working on a catalog in InDesign CS2 using data pulled from a database. Documentation on automation is rather,…

Accessing Virtual Hosts from Virtual PC 09/01/06 9:34 AM

I often use Apache virtual hosts on my Mac when developing sites—I almost always prefer to do initial development on…

Grep Pattern to Match a Block of HTML 07/21/06 2:54 PM

<(?i)script[^>]*>[\s\S]*?</script> I always forget how to do this……

Entourage 2004 “Show in Groups” Bug 04/13/06 7:14 AM

Entourage 2004, which I’m forced to use at work due to the Exchange server with IMAP supported turned off, has…

Oops 09/30/05 10:52 AM

Note to self: when deleting directories via FTP/SFTP, symlinks are followed……

Safari and Tab-Delimited Plain Text 09/22/05 12:25 PM

Just an observation: Safari (and I assume WebKit in general) wraps tab-delimited plain text (both local and served with text/plain)…

Resolving a Movabletype Password Problem 07/08/05 4:06 PM

Yesterday wanted to try it out Zempt, an open-source weblog posting application for Windows, so downloaded and installed it—always a…

Kung-Tunes-like Script for Windows 07/07/05 2:22 PM

Here at my new job, much to my chagrin, I’m on a Windows machine (hopefully not for long) and I’ve…

Pressed Links in CSS Navigation Lists 07/06/05 9:53 AM

There are some great tutorials out there about using unordered lists and css to mark up and present navigation bars,…

CVS Import 06/22/05 7:53 PM

I can never remember this: cvs import -m “Message” projectname vendor-tag start From Apple Developer Connection: Version Control with CVS…

Guilty of Nested Tables 06/16/05 9:16 AM

I’ve been pretty lucky for the last few years in terms of the quality of html with which I’ve been…

Squeeze Pre Bookmarklet 06/08/05 12:44 PM

I got sick of those forum/discussion pages (like this one) that are hard to read because someone posts a loooooooong…

Netscape 8 and sIFR 05/19/05 10:06 AM

First off, who beat Netscape 8 with the ugly stick? It’s the most horrendously designed application I’ve seen in a…

CVS Through an SSH Tunnel 03/15/05 4:10 PM

So our CVS repository is on a server behind a firewall. Using an SSH tunnel, I can SSH to the…

Splitting Lists into Two Columns with Javascript 02/17/05 4:51 PM

Inspired by A List Apart’s article Bulleted Lists: Multi-Layered Fudge, I decided that a better way to make a two…

Delinking the Current Page in MovableType 01/28/05 2:17 PM

A page shouldn’t link to itself. It’s a general usability rule and just good practice. It’s always bothered me that…

Changing CVS Root on an Existing Module 01/06/05 11:36 AM

If you’re like me, you use CVS for version control. If you’re even more like me, you’ve got the repository…

Add Label Click Support to Safari 12/19/04 10:18 PM

Safari’s lack of full support for the <label> element has always bothered me. You can’t click the label and focus…

CNN Issues 12/07/04 3:07 PM

The CNN site that I check has been having some issues lately (although the normal site isn’t affected): Looks like…

AppleScript to Replace Raw Smart Quotes with HTML Entities in BBEdit 12/06/04 1:35 PM

After banging my head against the wall trying to figure out a regular expression in a perl script to replace…

Numbers with Leading Zeroes in Actionscript 08/03/04 4:40 PM

Actionscript has an undocumented (at least as far as I can tell) “feature” that causes numbers beginning with the character…

Flash and Perl 06/16/04 10:45 AM

Just an observation: there is very little information online about using perl .cgi as a backend for Flash applications. There’s…

Synch iCal without .Mac 05/06/04 1:20 PM

The main thing preventing me from using iCal is the requirement to purchase a .Mac account to synch between two…

Image Dimensions AppleScript 06/05/03 10:01 AM

Here’s an applescript to get the dimensions of an image from the finder. tell application "Finder" set imageFile to (item…

Using Images for Movable Type Comment Form Buttons 05/25/03 9:02 PM

I had some trouble finding any information on using input type="image" with Movable Type’s comment forms, so here are my…

CSS Keywords and IE 6 Doctype Switching 05/08/03 3:16 PM

Discovered an interesting bug—or “feature,” depending on your mindset—in Internet Explorer 6. When the rendering mode is set to standards…

GeoURL 05/07/03 12:30 PM

Read all the weblogs written phyically close to me……

MySQL Helpers 04/17/03 3:12 PM

Just some MySQL reminders for myself… To insert SQL statements from a text document into a database, either existing or…

Safari Autofix 02/13/03 9:29 AM

I spent about an hour the other night trying to work out some layout bugs in Safari for the new…

Safari UI Improvements 02/07/03 9:33 AM

Dave Hyatt is asking for feedback and suggestions on the Safari interface, so here’s my list in no particular (meaning…

Junk Mail Rule AppleScript 02/06/03 9:25 AM

I get a lot of spam from a few senders that aren’t caught by OS X Mail’s spam filters and…

Trackback Auto-rebuild 01/20/03 3:05 PM

It’s funny how often someone solves a problem that I’ve been thinking about at virtually the same time I’m thinking…

My Thoughts on Safari 01/07/03 3:14 PM

My initial thoughts on the new Safari browser from Apple:It’s fast.Like IE/Win, it doesn’t correctly render border-style: dotted (it’s dashed).It…

Rel Attribute Values 12/11/02 4:22 PM

The official list of rel values for link elements. I’m curious about the rev attribute. It’s interesting in that it…

Comments Count not Updating 11/21/02 11:35 PM

I just noticed that the comments count doesn’t update on the index page without a substantial change to an entry….

Comments Form Layout 11/15/02 3:56 PM

One of my recent favorites, Antipixel, has a discussion about the layout of the comments form in MoveableType. Now that…

CSS Inheritance Formula 11/15/02 12:11 PM

Discussing CSS in class on Wednesday, I mentioned the cascade, but couldn’t remember the specific formula for cascading, so here…

Hide CSS from Omniweb 11/12/02 8:30 AM

Finally, a way to hide CSS from Omniweb, the Netscape 4 of OS X browsers….

For the Love of Beer 10/26/02 9:02 AM

Going through my hit logs the other day, I discovered that a Google search for “I love Coors” returns this…

One Year 10/22/02 8:27 AM

Well, it’s been a year since I started this thing and I’m averaging less than one entry every two days….

AntiSocial 10/17/02 12:47 PM

I tend to be kind of a hermit. I like to hang out by myself or with just Chris, I’m…

The Big Switch 10/10/02 12:24 AM

I finally moved over to Moveable Type today and so far so good. I actually had a bit of an…

Let’s Go Googling 10/01/02 8:43 AM

Google has been getting some bad press the last couple of days. NPR’s On the Media had a rather negative…

Moving to Moveable Type 09/29/02 1:00 PM

So I’ve finally worked out the final kinks to move to Moveable Type, which should happen over the next week….

What’s Your Problem, Punk? 08/11/02 12:19 AM

My problem is that I like learning stuff just for the sake of knowing it a little too much. For…

Kung Tunes 06/22/02 12:25 PM

I added a little Kung-Tunes deal to the homepage, letting everyone (hah) know what I’m listening to on iTunes. The…

If You’re Not into the Whole Brevity Thing 06/11/02 2:21 PM

The Big Lebowski Random Quote Generator Right on!…

Jakob “Flash” Neilsen 06/05/02 9:35 AM

So Macromedia signed a deal with Jakob Neilsen… Get over it. Jakob will make his set of best use guidelines,…

Spring Updates 06/03/02 4:10 PM

I made a few updates around here over the last few days. I redesigned the portfolio and added notes from…

Site Updates 03/17/02 10:18 AM

I finally got the portfolio portion of my site together, my design stuff anyway… And I added a new Flash…

Changes 01/21/02 9:39 PM

I upgraded to Greymatter v 1.21c this evening and added a ping to weblogs.com, so hopefully there aren’t any problems…

Site Updates 01/14/02 11:10 PM

In addition adding the new class website, I’ve made a few tweaks and improvements around here. I added an explanation…

Linkage 01/12/02 5:44 PM

Thanks to Donimo at Web Nouveau for linking to me. I’m number 0479….

Balance 11/11/01 7:08 PM

Where is the balance between the technical end and the art end of this thing for me? Can the pursuit…

Launch 10/22/01 6:46 PM

So this thing finally is up and running with some semblance of what I hope it will be… I’m optimistic…