I've updated SAM to now include a webserver. This brings along with it a new AJAXy interface (I guess this is sort of a followup to my AJAX post, Alex (dojo) and Bob (mochikit) were the only open source people who responded to my requests for comments (one commercial company …

A co-worker of mine has created a very useful firefox extension for capturing interactions in Firefox. By itself this is useful for scripting common things you do with the web that are tedious yet you do them often. (I had an old coworker who had carpal tunnels who used a …

I seem to have this love hate relationship with the company that seems to control the web. Ok this post will probably seem quite vain, so I apologize for that. But it illustrates that even though a companies' motto is "Do no evil", it doesn't always mean that they are …

Yes that title is a question not an answer. A short amount of scouring the internet turned up nothing. We recently purchased a Canon S1 camera that takes pretty good mjpeg videos. Our DVD player, the Philips 642 will play divx video, yet I can't seem to convert the mjpeg …

Here's an email exchange I recently had:

Hello- I saw the link to your service today on Slashdot. I'm interested in your photo books, yet I don't have a Windows machine. Are you planning to support firefox anytime soon. If so, you will probably have a new customer. thanks matt …

So, I've been trying out MochiKit. The stuff I've done so far seems very straightforward and also functional (as in lispy). Hopefully I'll have something to show for it soon. In the meantime, I've created a python script (read hack complete with unit tests) for converting well formed html to …

The recently open sourced (dual licensed ala mySQL) Xara project is interesting. Their FAQ is very frank and straightforward. I like it. The program itself appears to be a combination of vector and bitmap manipulation utilities.

One aspect that I find interesting is that the Xara folks aparently were in …

With OpenOffice 3.0 (the AJAX edition) in the works, I thought I'd join the bandwagon and do a little more with AJAX. So I have a dilemma. Much like in the python world (where it is really easy to implement what you want) where there exists many slightly different …

Because I'm fascinated by how your ranking in certain search engines can fluctuate so rapidly over even one day, I hacked out a script (easier than scanning through pages of results). Pass the script a query (in quotes) and the url (can just be the first unique characters of it …

Just found an interesting post on the RSD (rec.sport.disc, mainly discussing ultimate) newsgroup. It asks if the glory days of the newsgroup are over since many of the characters in the community have begun to blog. Which leads to a few questions:

• Will newsgroups whither away?
• Will they …