Just storing these in the blog for future reference.
Wordpress Rich Text Editing
When upgrading wordpress (Hebrew wordpress, 2.3), there can be a problem where the rich text editor doesn’t show up.
First, check if the rich text editor javascript is being loaded (you can do this with firebug, or just view source). There should be javascript files [...]
Nir on Windows Vista (rant in Hebrew):
If the twin towers had been designed by the Vista development team, they would have been built underground, at the center of a maze, and no one would be allowed in, and those who got in by mistake would not be allowed out. The latter people whould be scanned [...]
Update on the Snap previews pop-up thing: I've come up with a (trivial) Greasemonkey script to disable those annoyances - I call it hover in peace (you can install it from that link if you're using Firefox and have Greasemonkey), and it disables any javascript that is triggered by mouseover events, that is by hovering [...]
Dada spam word of the day: tuberosity boudoir.
Talk about statistical improbabilities.
More then a year ago, I complained about spam-mail bounces cluttering up by inbox. But I didn't really bother doing anything about it for a long while. And in recent months, the weekend spam-bounce-storms have gotten very bad.
So this Saturday, on a whim, I added [...]
Here's an article by some folk who've made a tool for converted protein sequences into musical tones:
We have converted genome-encoded protein sequences into musical notes to reveal auditory patterns without compromising musicality. … The conversion will help make genomic coding sequences more approachable for the general public, young children, and vision-impaired scientists.
You can go to [...]
I've been using Linux (Kubuntu!) on my home computer since around late June 2006.
No, it's not any better than Windows XP. In fact, it has it's share of annoyances. But I sit in front of my computer on an uncomfortable chair in a cold and dusty enclosed balcony with no elbow rests, so I'm used [...]
Found on the JQuery mailing list, here's a javascript hack to preload hidden images to a webpage, by Luke Lutman - (this is just a quick note for myself)
$(window).bind(’load’, function(){
var preload = [
'/images/assets/file/1.gif',
'/images/assets/file/2.gif',
'/images/assets/file/3.gif'
];
$(document.createElement(’img’)).bind(’load’, function(){
if(preload[0]) this.src = preload.shift();
}).trigger(’load’);
});
Finally, it seems that the inline frames introduced in HTML 4.0 will be mostly harmless.
Jakob Nielsen, 1996
Having stumbled across that text less then 24 hours after dealing with a hacked site that had it’s pages modified with an invisible iframe that attempts to load a malicious site, I couldn’t help thinking idiot! as I read [...]
Someone once described the President of the Galaxy as Zaphod, he’s just this guy, you know?. A while back, I stumbled across the name Orli Yakuel in TechCrunch (here, for example), and assumed she was some entrepreneur-VC-startup mover and shaker.
Well, Haaretz has a profile of her, Muse 2.0, and turns out, she’s just this [...]
Used to be, if you wanted a dialog-box sort of thing in a web application (they called them CGIs back then), you’d use trusty old window.open(). These days though, pop-ups are considered evil incarnate, and all the kids think that rolling your own dialog with AJAX and DHTML and what not is the coolest.
Which is [...]
I noticed today that Bloglines have improved their RSS reader by stopping it from refreshing the navigation frame every time you click on it. Yawn.
However, I discovered that Google’s RSS Reader has also been overhauled, and that while it seems like most of their changes are aimed at making it more like Bloglines and every [...]
Greg Costikyan plays a game called Cinema Tycoon, a resource management game about running a multiplex, and wonders:
I found myself thinking: Man, this so does not play into my fantasies about what it would be like to run a multiplex. Maximizing profit?
Probably the owner cares about that, but…. What I’d really like to be doing [...]
Hmmph. Why didn’t I hear about this before? IceRocket is a search engine for blogs; Type in “Thoth-Amon and you get both my last blog entry and Shiffer’s entry referencing it; enter בוג’י to get Vered’s friends talking about her or הטור השבועי to see that Yossi ownz0rs that phrase, at least for today.
I added [...]
Shoshanah Forbes posts a neat tip about using Adobe Acrobat (with OpenOffice) for verbal proofreading of long documents - Use OpenOffice to create a “tagged PDF” version of the document, and then use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader’s Read Out Loud option (in Acrobat Reader 7, that’s in the View menu) to listen to [...]