as a newly minted permanent employee of the university of the great state of north carolina, i was reminded that i should keep an eye out for professional development opportunities, things that would help me in my future career, and…
i told someone on the plane that i was going to a conference for people who really love web browsers. back in the netscape 4.7 days, the web browsing experience was getting pretty crappy. so i remember playing with internet…
i know i had an AOL account during high school (1994-1998), but I don’t remember when I started doing much web browsing. i wanted to build the computer i brought to college (i’m not sure where i got that idea–i…
mozilla firefox has an incredibly simple toolbar interface for custom search engine plug-ins. there are literally hundreds of plug-ins contributed by the mozilla community for all variety of special purpose search engines. i use a handful of web reference tools.…
it occurred to me that when i need to go back a page, i hit backspace. so why not just chuck the navigation buttons out the window and move the search and location bars up to the menubar. savings: one…
dan gillmor of the san jose mercury news gave the closing keynote at the fifteenth acm conference on hypertext and hypermedia in santa cruz, california. these are my annotated notes of his talk and his responses to the audiences’ questions.…
how do you make a web browser that pleases everyone without pleasing no one? make it extensible. the only downside is that there are so many extensions available for firefox that it’s hard to know where to start. these are…
BetterBlogThis is based on blogger’s BlogThis bookmarklet with the following modifications: the selected text becomes the link text the post editor defaults to a specific blog the window size is elongated to facilitate editing links version 2 adds the following…
why? i like researching computer parts, building a system in my mind, purchasing everything, and putting it all together i like quiet computers i’ve been a fan of the small shuttle micro-atx systems since i first saw them in fry’s…
woke at 5am saturday after a week of too little sleep. picked up christy and chloe and drove to pittsboro for the mark hewitt’s kiln opening. we were the eighth car. feigned sleep for two hours as the sun and…
as of right now, it appears that justinsomnia.org is resolving to the IP address of my cable modem which is then forwarded to my webserver. i decided to buy the domain from godaddy ($8.95/year) and point the record to zoneedit’s…
my favorite weather map: 100 mile rdu metro area dopler #
SmartView on Yahoo! Maps rocks! #
congratulations Flamingo Road & Pines Boulevard you are the most dangerous intersection! #
washington state chipping away at the DOMA scourge #
damn! why is john mccain so cool? #
quote of the day: Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. your “president”, george w bush #
where i went today: Computer History Museum (dad: you would enjoy) #
two words i don’t usually see together: aggressively cached #
i had no idea the w3c provided pdfs of their standards: Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2 #
whoa super cookie #
i always wondered about those funky Globally Unique Identifiers #
this place rocks! IN-N-OUT Burger #
neat looking mozilla xul web app: Mozilla Amazon Browser #
quote of the day: you’d have to load Word into memory (an expensive proposition) and then manipulate the Word object model (not an intuitive task). —msdn on creating word documents from access #
blast from the past: Marc Andreessen on Brendan Eich (inventor of javascript and chief architect of mozilla) #
cool: DNS for Your Dynamic IP #
make your own stamps: PhotoStamps #
quote of the day: They are flying out of the fryers… #
new word: transclusion – the capability for documents to include sections of other documents by reference #
measure’s little bw3 all growed up #
word i keep hearing lately: monoculture #
quote of the day: he apparently has trouble lunging #
i am totally posting this from an airplane. i think it’s because the wireless in the airport actually reaches all the way out to the plane. amazing! #
you’ll understand in a second: ATHENS 2004 SUX!!! #
listening to iris dement’s “our town” #
this is for real Hungry Jack’s #
hella cool: reissued schwinn rides #
quote of the day: the best babies take the longest to come out of their mommies. I think any doctor would tell you that chris onstad of achewood #
this one is good: The page cannot be displayed properly #
i had no idea 1GB of Compact Flash only costs $125 #
smaller is better: 7″ lcd widescreen #
hahaha! Child Pimp & Ho Costumes #
wow: Kangaroo Scrotum #
input device wishlist item #1: wacom tablet, something i’ve been thinking about getting since reading about it on jesse’s weblog #
input device wishlist item #3: Happy Hacking Keyboard #
i love american pop culture: Doing a Lynndie #
cool (and weird) trailer: I Heart Huckabees #
this rocks: highlighting current page with CSS #
the new switch campaign? browse happy #
quote of the day: Firefox, built for cutting off heads #
quote of the day: as the bugmenot turns #
quote of the day: With respect to the question of relationships, my general view is that freedom means freedom for everybody. People ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to. –dick cheney #
quote of the day: There is no longer a mainstream media in the United States #
This was his scream that his Chi-Chi — that’s what he called Alex — this is his scream that his child is dead and the war needs to stop (emphasis added) #
to read later: Linguistics professor George Lakoff dissects the “war on terror” and other conservative catchphrases #
a look inside the mozilla foundation regarding the upcoming release of firefox v1.0, courtesy of brendan eich #
nice: michael guevara tshirt #
yes! i have thought this many times: heightened alert systems on a national scale are pointless, bordering on detrimental #
hehe: email addresses it would be really annoying to give out over the phone #
political panties: the only bush i trust is my own (nsfw) #
