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[ 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).

[ 09:31 AM on February 17, 2008 ]

A number of the toys we grew up with are celebrating anniversaries this year.

--Woman on Today Show, 2/17

[ 04:47 PM on February 14, 2008 ]

State of the Spot as of today

[ 11:12 AM on February 10, 2008 ]

Some interesting YouTube math.... youtube-wtf-small.png

[ 10:12 AM on February 09, 2008 ]

Here's a map of the bands in SXSW 2008 (you can click on the red things). There's a bigger version here.

[ 08:57 PM on February 07, 2008 ]

Hi, Erin!
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(congrats)

[ 10:10 PM on November 25, 2007 ]

Cate asked me to put this up
Cate Xeller