Sillybean

a Dodocase-compatible iPad stand

While I love my Dodocase, it doesn’t work as a stand on all surfaces. I wanted something lightweight that I could throw into my bag, but I didn’t want to have to pry the iPad out of the…

a better save bookmarklet for delicious on the iPhone

Last week, I discovered that the standard ‘save to delicious’ bookmarklet pretty much sucks on the iPhone. It tries to open a new window. It doesn’t use the mobile version of delicious. When I got back, I realized that nothing…

iCal/iPhone ArmadilloCon schedule

My congoing buddy Mike is entering this weekend’s ArmadilloCon schedule into an iCalendar. It’s public, so you can subscribe on your phone if you like. He has today’s all the events in there so far, and I’ll take…

Word Unmunger (HTML cleanup) Automator script updated

For years, I used Luke Francl’s Word Unmunger to strip the gunk out of Word-generated HTML files (an occupational hazard when you work in higher ed). I fell out of the habit when I started working more on application…

When you can’t log in to wordpress.com stats from your Dashboard…

…but you can log in at wordpress.com itself, and you’re using Firefox…

…you probably need to go to your cookie preferences and check “Accept third-party cookies,” because the stats are loaded in an iframe, and Firefox is trying to…

“It’s fixed.”

This has happened a lot lately.

One of my users reports a problem. Some time later, I get an email from the IT staff saying “It’s fixed!”

Except the person who originally had the problem still can’t do whatever it…

I know code fu and you are standing between me and my entertainment.

So after Hulu got yanked from Boxee, I told Michael, “You know, I give it about a week before the hackers figure out how to put it back.”

More like twelve hours. Do not get between geeks and their…

DirecTV, Apple TV, Boxee, Hulu, and the fight over who decides what I get to watch on my TV

DirecTV, and some backstory

Last week we had a thunderstorm. Not even an especially notable one, really, except the lightning was close enough that we unplugged the laptops before we went to bed, just as a precaution.

When we went…

Ubiquity command for BookMooch

A couple of weeks ago I posted about Ubiquity, a new Firefox extension. Today I wrote my first command for it: mooch, which will search BookMooch for selected text on a page (or whatever you type in).…

Keyboard navigation, Firefox, and Macs (including how to tab through drop-down boxes in forms)

Adjusting settings in Firefox and OS X to restore the full keyboard navigation (including form field drop-downs!) needed for accessibility testing.

Gah.

It’s 1am. I’ve spent the last seven hours migrating my sites from the old-and-busted server to the new-hotness server. A few things broke, and my email was bouncing for a while there, but everything seems to have stabilized now. Except…

Google My Library vs. LibraryThing

Via Library Thing’s blog, I discovered that LT had created a handy little bookmark that would let you search the contents of your books — provided they’d been scanned by Google.

I’d been more or less ignoring Google’s new…

I’d rather be reading.

Well. The honeymoon is over; the words no longer come easily, and we are definitely in the “don’ wanna” stage. And one of the other books is bouncing on its toes for my attention.

New words: 908
Reason for…

Home again, and writing

I think I finally have titles I like for all four of these books. Of course, whether I write all four of them is anybody’s guess.

New words: 863, plus 575 elsewhere
Reason for stopping: quota, tired
Sustenance:…

Diggers invent impeachment poll

I love Digg. Having discovered their collective power earlier this week with the whole AACS thing, today they invented an impeachment poll where one didn’t exist — namely, in Nancy Pelosi’s office. While I feel really sorry…