Short

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918

Google Chrome Begins

September 3, 2008

Inspect Element rocks. Needs to be able to edit pages live with it.

Memory usage rocks. Very minimal. Use about:memory to check browser comparisons.

Dragging tabs around and to new windows is cool.

Theme looks good, better than the default FF3.

Address bar works as well, possibly better, than FF3.

It learns your search habits and creates keyword shortcuts for you automatically.

Easy creation of ‘web app’ shortcuts.

No Greasemonkey script support.

No full-screen view.

Less customisable all together than FF3.

google.com/chrome

Filter Everyone On Friendfeed

August 6, 2008

I wanted to check out everyone’s updates within a particular service so I tried this:

http://friendfeed.com/public?service=

eg. /public?service=flickr will show me all Friendfeed users’ Flickr updates.

Add the Friendfeed.com service you want to browse and find more interesting people!

Firefox 3 Multiple Tabs As Homepage

August 5, 2008

Firefox 3 has a neat feature where you can save your browser home page as multiple tabs. When you have a bunch of tabs open, head to your options menu and hit Use Current Pages so when you open Firefox it’ll have a bunch of tabs ready to roll. Neat!

Wordpress Simple Tags

July 29, 2008

If you’re serious about using Wordpress’ tagging feature, I suggest installing the Simple Tags plugin. The native tagging system in place is very thinly featured; this plugin fattens things enough to make tagging useful to your site.

Most importantly for me; I’m auto-tagging 3000+ posts at grounduphiphop.com

Is Aggregation So Important?

Just a brief point:
I understand that we have access to a lot of information from a lot of different sources; and this is great. But instead of focuses so much on how to get everything in one place, could you focus on what’s important and necessary? Then just feel content in typing URLs in your address bar like we were ten years ago.

No Images

July 28, 2008

p.s. The point of building a Wordpress theme with no images and so much emphasis on text was to accentuate the posts that were about images - original illustrations etc. Well that’s the problem; if I don’t post images, the site looks a little bare. So bear with me while I draw something for you.

EasyTweets

July 24, 2008

Very happy using Easytweets.com to feed RSS into my Twitter accounts. It supports multiple accounts/feeds and most importantly it will update Twitter as soon as it receives the feed item instead of putting them in cue like Twitterfeed.com.

9 Months Ago

Opened BigHugeLabs’ Writer again and found something I wrote in the park a while ago:

Surrounded by green and brown and ants, tickles up my neck and down my spine; there is a light wash over my fingers, typing softly, as the breeze almost lifts my umbrella away. The umbrella, found alone on the sidewalk a few nights ago, provides enough shade to resolve my computer’s battle with the glare of the sun. Atop my head, an hour past noon, rays warm my head and tired eyes. I’m getting that sensation of pressure behind my neck, usually a result of calm and lack of sleep, which I enjoy. Sammy has formed the spitting image of a lobster with thin twigs. A ‘rock lobster’, as she sings.

Tumblr Soundbox

July 22, 2008

Type ‘listen’ while browsing your Tumblr Dashboard and you’ll open the Soundbox. This is an experimental Tumblr audio player that allows you to browse only the audio posts of people you’re following.

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

July 8, 2008

This is more about the way the machines we use to write affect our writing - Environment Vs Result. [09:02:48]

WordPress Gears

July 6, 2008

Wordpress.com blogs now cache files with Google Gears in your admin for increased speed. Very cool feature, that you enable hitting the Turbo button. [18:29:00]