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[ 05:32 PM on August 15, 2008 ]

uh . . .

[ 07:50 AM on July 16, 2008 ]

Cheap, knock-off ipod chargers don't work!

[ 06:40 AM on July 15, 2008 ]

When you print something at your office for aid in a questionably-off color joke and it doesn't print, don't keep printing and printing thinking the printer is broken. Consider that you are printing to another printer; and you don't know where the fuck that printer is.

[ 07:07 AM on July 14, 2008 ]

OK, piclens is very cool, especially with its firefox add on.

[ 04:23 AM on June 22, 2008 ]

This guy is declaring independence from the UK, which is about as cool as when Killington tried to declare independence from Vermont. Granted, the UK doesn't have the maple syrup power of Vermont.

[ 01:12 PM on June 21, 2008 ]

Today is potato appreciation day...




in my house.

[ 07:09 AM on June 20, 2008 ]

I wonder if the person poking around here, http://jeffpalm.com/admin, found what he (or she) was looking for? Maybe these would be of interest, too: read is slightly updated, because it was horribly broken. It's now been tested on TWO sites, the new one being freenyc.net....woohoo.

[ 07:43 AM on June 19, 2008 ]

If I had it my way there would be no caps lock and everything would be in text, but I don't, but read is a Ruby script for displaying and openning RSS feeds in text mode. To use it pass in the name of a site (e.g. reddit.com) or name (e.g. reddit) and you'll get a list of the RSS entries. Then you can choose one to open in an evil browser to read more. Of course it only works on macs. Here's an example: 
r3potatoo:ruby jeff$ ./read reddit
*** www.reddit.com/
*** www.reddit.com/.rss
[1] reddit.com: what's new online
      ( http://reddit.com/ )

[2] I would love to know what sick bastard at Kellogs came up 
    with this genius idea.
      ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nys3 )

[3] "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to 
    acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely 
    about oil," Alan Greenspan
      ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6o076 )

[4] Ahmadinejad: Oil Crisis “Fake,” Result of Dollar Devaluation 
    - HOLY SHIT, it's like he reads my mind!
      ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nyoz )


[5] So let me get this straight. "Curveball", who lied 
    us into the Iraq War, was working at a Burger King in Germany 
    when he gave his "intelligence"? Wowz.
      ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6o06b )

[6] Reddit has gone Open Source !!
      ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nw57 )

[7] Wins $250K with scratch lottery ticket AGAIN while re-enacting 
    how he won his car
      ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6o005 )

[8] Surviving the Hits - Suzanne Vega
      ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6o19a )

[9] How Cops Really Want to Police
      ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nyx6 )

[10] A 19-year-old Italian tourist ambushed by a knife-wielding
     thug managed to disarm the attacker by grabbing his blade 
     with her bare hands and wrestling it away
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nyzw )

[11] If Indiana Jones 4 were shorter and more honest, it would be 
     this
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nwl4 )

[12] Trump on CNBC: Big Oil "ripping off this country"
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nww5 )

[13] Someone tell me why?!?!
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nyrv )

[14] Put your feet up [pic]
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nziz )

[15] Police break demonstrators leg, and then handcuff her.
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nz8i )

[16] Silent World [Pics]
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nzcr )

[17] Single? [Pic]
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6o0k0 )

[18] Cancer patient's tumours vanished within two months after
     being injected with billions of his own cloned immune cells
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nzsf )

[19] Got six weeks? Try the hundred push ups training program
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nz1k )

[20] The General who led an Army investigation into the horrific 
     detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib has accused the Bush 
     administration of war crimes and is calling for accountability.
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6ny1x )

[21] There are no ugly women... only poor ones
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nx9x )

[22] Keith Olbermann's special report on McCain's support of 
     the 'Enron Loophole', which allows speculators to drive 
     up energy prices. McCane is screwed.
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6o0zk )

[23] Kucinich threatens 60 impeachment articles (instead of 35) 
     if Judiciary doesn’t act
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6o0ef )

[24] Watermelon Viking Commands You To Eat Him [PIC]
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6o1er )

[25] Bush gets drilled offshore by a real journalist (Video)
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6o028 )

[26] blog.reddit - We've open sourced reddit!
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nw36 )


Please choose a number between 1 and 26 or 'q' to quit> 26

[ 06:30 AM on June 19, 2008 ]

In response to this post, GDirections now works with Mapquest. To use it, go to Tools -> Add-ons, select GDirections, and choose Mapquest under Map Type as shown here:
gdirections-ss1.png

[ 08:57 AM on June 18, 2008 ]

Arg, little bug in GDirections, here's the latest bug fix:
gdirections-3.0.1.xpi

[ 07:19 AM on June 18, 2008 ]

Hmmmmmmmmm... my server doesn't support command-line ImageMagik tools anymore, so floto is updated so it correctly resizes images using the PHP binding instead of making execs; this is probably a good change for a number of reasons. Again, the source is hosted by the goog here: http://code.google.com/p/floto/ and of course this means that the Lime's photos are working again, too. At the time of writing Emily is showing the boys how it's done at a bar in New Orleans.

[ 06:36 AM on June 18, 2008 ]

GDirections now works on Firefox 3...thanks to everyone for bugging me about it. The official mozilla page will become live with the new version soon, but for now you can update it here:

gdirections-3.0.0.xpi

[ 07:38 AM on June 17, 2008 ]

Java2Midi.java is a little class to play files as songs using your built in MIDI player. here are some very brief instructions.

[ 09:25 AM on May 04, 2008 ]

I'm trying to replace my keyboard and having no success. Though, I've found a huge amount of hair underneath the old one. I'll mail it directly to Uncle Steve.

[ 07:22 AM on April 29, 2008 ]

Here's a little Ruby script to download all the files on a URL according to the regular expressions you pass in... there's probably a better way.

[ 07:29 AM on April 17, 2008 ]

My crap-pod works!

[ 12:59 AM on April 15, 2008 ]

Here is a greasemonkey script to hold your position on various pages, and scroll there when you visit. It's is useful to put together a little jukebox of oyur favorite bands who have music on their site. To do it, put your bands bookmarks in the toolbar on the far left, make a pretty small window, and enter a bands site you like that has a flash or other streaming player. Then scroll until you've center this player, and follow the directions above. If you do this for all the bands in this bookmark list, you'll create a little jukebox. Here's a picture from theprids.com.


OK, it sucks for macs, I wrote this on a PC, and didn't realize this.

[ 08:06 AM on April 01, 2008 ]

I've got an enormous pimple on my nose.

[ 06:18 AM on March 31, 2008 ]

Here's some code to control itunes from your iphone. I realized I needed this after my powerbook's screen crapped out on a flight from Burbank to San Jose one day, but I still had a lot of music on it. Anyway, it gives you the native interface, sort of. If I ever get appliances and other things that I could control, I hope to control them with my phone. Currently there's the AC, which is unplugged, the stove that has never been turned on, and the fridge. I use my little vaccuum a lot, but controlling it from a phone wouldn't really benefit me. I do have the door buzzer... I could let people in 'remotely'.

[ 09:01 PM on March 29, 2008 ]

I'm watching shows about Queen Elizabeth on pbs and listening to Robert Smith scream at me, I probably shouldn't.

[ 05:06 AM on March 27, 2008 ]

Yes. Journey is on Pandora!

[ 08:54 AM on March 24, 2008 ]

More wow!

[ 03:24 PM on March 23, 2008 ]

wow.

[ 08:48 AM on March 21, 2008 ]

Where the fuck is New York Mills? Why doesn't pollstar take me to the New York City calendar when I type New York, NY...

[ 08:28 AM on March 19, 2008 ]

redditmenu is a bookmarklet to reorganize reddit, so that all the links appear on the left, and then the main page opens, so you don't have go page to page. This is for people who don't read legitimate news sources, and would like to optimize their procrastination time. This is an image after and before.

after


before

[ 09:32 AM on March 17, 2008 ]

Something is awry.

[ 09:04 AM on March 13, 2008 ]

We needed a new grouphug sign for the office... I'm tired of watching the status of the servers.

[ 11:47 PM on March 12, 2008 ]

So I was checking out pictures of the hooker Spitzer was bagging, when it became really annoying to scroll to the center of the screen on every page load to avoid the ads. So, scrollagain is a greasemonkey script to save your scroll position, so you scroll to this position on every page load.

[ 03:38 PM on March 01, 2008 ]

search is an updated version of the command-line search plugin search. This will search your Firefox search plugins and allow you to specificy a query on the command line. First, it only works on Macs, since I'm on a mac right now. Secondly, here's how you use it:
  1. If you pass it no arguments, you'll be prompted to choose a search engine and then give search terms, e.g. 
    jeff$ ./search
[1] amazondotcom     Amazon.com       
[2] answers          Answers.com      
[3] creativecommons  Creative Commons 
[4] eBay             eBay             
[5] google           Google           
[6] yahoo            Yahoo            
Please choose an engine > 6
Input search terms> asdf
Using Yahoo with url 'http://search.yahoo.co...'
    Then you'll do a search for http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&p=asdf%0A.
  2. If you give one argument it is a regular expression describing the search engine, e.g. 
    jeff$ ./search yahoo
Input search terms> asdf
Using Yahoo with url 'http://search.yahoo.co...'
  3. If you give more than one argument, the first is treated like a regular expression for the search engine and rest are search terms, e.g. 
    jeff$ ~/Sites/code/search yahoo asdf
Using Yahoo with url 'http://search.yahoo.co...'

[ 11:42 AM on March 01, 2008 ]

The sole reason to line Steve Jobs' pockets

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[ 03:16 AM on February 29, 2008 ]

t   i      r         e            d   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

[ 08:55 PM on February 28, 2008 ]

I     love            pandora

[ 12:25 PM on February 24, 2008 ]

The first real iphone obituary is here: http://www.iphone-obituaries.com/obit/show/29. Booooooooooooooooooooo... hate the iphone even more now. On a brighter note, Sufjan Stevens joined the National last night for a song. On a brighter, brighter note, the National were incredible and BAM is a great place to see a show -- a real treat.

[ 11:00 AM on February 23, 2008 ]

I made my photo blog email-based. The goog hosts the source code here.

[ 08:12 AM on February 21, 2008 ]

jstranslate is a bookmarklet to translate selected text into various langauges. To install drag one or more of these links to your tool bar...

jstranslate (Chinese-simp to English)
jstranslate (Chinese-trad to English)
jstranslate (English to Chinese-simp)
jstranslate (English to Chinese-trad)
jstranslate (English to Dutch)
jstranslate (English to French)
jstranslate (English to German)
jstranslate (English to Greek)
jstranslate (English to Italian)
jstranslate (English to Japanese)
jstranslate (English to Korean)
jstranslate (English to Portuguese)
jstranslate (English to Russian)
jstranslate (English to Spanish)
jstranslate (Dutch to English)
jstranslate (Dutch to French)
jstranslate (French to English)
jstranslate (French to German)
jstranslate (French to Greek)
jstranslate (French to Italian)
jstranslate (French to Portuguese)
jstranslate (French to Dutch)
jstranslate (French to Spanish)
jstranslate (German to English)
jstranslate (German to French)
jstranslate (Greek to English)
jstranslate (Greek to French)
jstranslate (Italian to English)
jstranslate (Italian to French)
jstranslate (Japanese to English)
jstranslate (Korean to English)
jstranslate (Portuguese to English)
jstranslate (Portuguese to French)
jstranslate (Russian to English)
jstranslate (Spanish to English)
jstranslate (Spanish to French)

and then click on it to translate text selected on the page to the corresponding language.

[ 08:52 AM on February 20, 2008 ]

searchbox is a shortcut for submitting the search form for a page by presenting the user with the probable search dialog for thata page. That is, when you're on a page and click this bookmarklet, you will be presented a dialog such as...



and then when you click 'Search' or press 'Enter' you will submit the search form on the page.

To install drag this link to your toolbar...
search box
and then go to a page with a search box and click the bookmark to show a modal search box. If your curious (or doubtful), here is the source.

[ 11:11 PM on February 19, 2008 ]

A year older. Woo hoo.

[ 10:35 AM on February 18, 2008 ]

limespotapi is a Java interface to limespot. It's not complete (or even worthwhile, yet).