Install feeddemon 1.5 trial (still trying to figure out an alternative to bloglines) Enable the bloglines synchronization feature Decide the keyboard navigation still feels awkward, and still don’t like having to read blogs in the websites (not as fast as bloglines’ “everyone looks the same” model). Go back to bloglines, and notice that feeddemon marked [...]
Archive for May, 2005
Python Challenge
I’m at level 5 of the Python Challenge. 12 more to go, phew.
Google vs. Rails
Interesting to see what happens when two “well-liked” communities clash. Background: Google released a web accelerator, which follows the HTTP specs (AFAICT), but wreaks havoc with a category of Web 2.0-style apps which, for convenience, ignored the part of the spec having to do with the idempotency of GETs (see Sam Ruby on the topic). [...]
Wikipedia and accesskeys
How do you turn off accesskeys in Wikipedia? It’s a real bother, and a quick glance at the code doesn’t show a simple way to turn it off for the two most obnoxious uses, Alt-E (which trumps the Edit menu selection in Windows) and Alt-F (which does the same for the File menu).
