Month: March 2005

Developer Todo

Interesting little program for maintaining todo lists: freshmeat.net: Project details for Developer Todo I gave it a quick spin and it's nice, but I've been pretty happy with using TWiki for managing tasks, plus it doubles as my...

Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.1 Release Candidate – MozillaZine Talkback

Release candidate builds of Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.1 are now available. Like last month's Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1, this new version will just fix a few security and stability bugs; it's not a major update. Mozilla Thunderbird...

General

Search Panel

Here's an interesting little search sidebar that uses the Yahoo Web APIs. I found about it from this press release. Search Panel, the popular browser companion which lets users search as they surf, now supports Yahoo! search....

TiVo

Galleon

Damn, I wish I had a TiVo that could run HME (I have a TiVo Series 1 and a DirecTiVo - neither of which can run the TiVo 7.x OS needed for HME :-() so that I could try this: http://galleon.sourceforge.net...

General

Fixed my blog layout for IE

I noticed while posting to my blog that the layout was totally and completely broken on IE (but fine on Firefox). After some trial and error, I tracked it down to my x2vnc post, which had some wide content inside <pre>...

GeneralTiVo

Bought a TiVo for my parents

My parents' birthday (yes, that's right - parents' - they both have the same birthday) is this week and I wanted to get them something different this year. I went ahead and bought them a TiVo along with a 6 month gift...

ProgrammingRants

accretive design => headaches

Somebody summed up my thoughts succintly today about a particular piece of software that I had been playing with: "accretive design => headaches". He also pointed out that "accretive design" is an oxymoron, which I also think...