Nov 15, 2007
A long, long time ago, I made an RSS feed for FoxTrot by Bill Amend, but it had since fallen through a crack in the pipes. Not to mention Bill Amend stopped doing dailies, and is now only doing a strip every Sunday, which made the feed even more obsolete.
That said, I’ve figured out the new URL’s Gocomics is using, and I’ve adjusted the script to display only strips from every Sunday. Here’s the URL:…
Nov 12, 2007
Here’s a (probably ever-growing) list of reasons why I hate MySpace:
- User-defined CSS — it might be cool to have a bit of customization, but this takes it too far. Most of the profile pages are either hideous and unusable, or both.
- Advertising — I don’t mind ads. But MySpace just plasters them everywhere. And they’re the annoying type — dating services and such.
- UI — the user interface is horrendous. Sure, they’ve upgraded the …
Nov 12, 2007
I’ve had it with Firefox on Mac OS X. On Windows, it’s fine, but on Mac OS X it’s unbearable. It crashes too often, it’s slow and sluggish all the time, and it just eats up my RAMPut it this way: when I quit Firefox, my RAM usage goes way down. Way down.. So I’m trying something new — I’m using a nightly build of WebKit.
I started thinking about switching when I read [an article …
Nov 11, 2007
A while back I listed my wishlist for Google Notifier, and one of them was the lack of Growl support — instead they use a home-grown one that reinvents the wheel, so to speak.
Fortunately, someone created Gmail+Growl for Google Notifier, a Google Notifier plugin that replaces the built-in notifications with Growl notifications.
So that’s one item off that list. The only other one is support for Google Reader, but the Gmail+Growl software apparently is a “plugin” …
Nov 6, 2007
Donncha, one of the lead developers of WordPress MU, has just released WP Super Cache, which is basically WP-Cache on steroids.
While WP-Cache caches to static HTML files, it still needs the PHP engine to be started up to serve those static HTML files. WP Super Cache solves this, by rerouting the request past the PHP engine with mod_rewrite, and serves the HTML file directly.
WP Super Cache gets around that. When it is installed, html …