Gender-Bending Fiction Index Well, things are looking up. On a whim, I re-implemented most of the old gender-bending list’s functionality on the new database-backed platform I’ve been meaning to write for years. I’m not sure how steadily I’ll work on getting the rest done, but at least it’s somewhat usable now. (I still have to hook in [...]
The bad news is, my main site is down and I’m too busy to update my blog. The good news is, I’ve finally cooked up a tool which prevents me from procrastinating or getting distracted for days on end, so it’s only a matter of time before I’ve caught up to my real-life obligations. The main site [...]
If programming languages were cars… If programming languages were religions… Just a couple more fun lists for people who enjoyed If Version Control Systems Were Airlines and Some more geek humor.
I’m not really on top of my time management yet, but this was hard enough to find that I think it warrants a blog post anyway… Have you ever tried looking up how to use Javascript to get the selected HTML in a browser window in a form that can then be sent via XMLHTTPRequest or [...]
Introducing the Carnival of Elitist Bastards @ Café Philos Probably best to read the link above, since I definitely don’t have time to write something anywhere near as good, but in short, it’s an introduction to Dana Hunter’s Carnival of Elitist Bastards which attempts to combat (or at least provide some resistance to) the apparent American [...]
Ever wanted to use a VoIP client to answer phone calls over your traditional phone line instead of getting VoIP service? (Surprisingly difficult since everyone seems to want to use their crappy old phones on VoIP instead) Well, here’s the trick: Buy an FXO card like the Voxzone X100P and install the open-source Asterisk PBX [...]
I’ve been busy lately, but I can at least share a few noteworthy things I ran across. A faint background image in your terminal reduces eye-strain. (source) KDE users can use kioexec to pass URLs as command-line arguments to non-KDE apps. (source) set ttymouse=xterm2 will fix mouse support in Vim when you’re running it inside GNU Screen. (source)
I’m not really in the mood for blogging right now, but this took me a lot of googling, so I should probably share it. Did you ever wonder what arcane incantations went into customizing that “ActionList: viewmode_toolbar” subsection in your Konqueror toolbar? Wonder no more. First, anyone who has used both Kubuntu and another distro (eg. Gentoo) [...]
How to Learn (But Not Master) Any Language in 1 Hour (Plus: A Favor) Just a blog post I ran across with some excellent tips for evaluating how difficult it will be to learn a given language. Not necessarily something I’d use (since I’d pick a language based on what it would get me and then [...]
Useful Hacks @ ssokolow.com I just pushed my attempts at RAR and GIF handling in Python to my useful hacks page. The GIF one functions as a partial validator, but it’s main designed purpose was to tell static from animated GIFs without a ton of dependencies. The RAR one is only really useful for identifying RAR [...]
