OK, there’s been quite a stir around Greasemonkey, the Firefox extension that adds user scripts to the discerning web user’s toolbox. And here are some more, with the knowledge to go with it. The handbook Dive into Greasemonkey says it in 5.3. Case study: Ain’t It Readable [Dive Into Greasemonkey]. For your pleasure.
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Impressive Ruby on Rails social software: YubNub
Social software + Web 2.0 + command-line action: YubNub. YubNub lets you create link shortcuts, like in Mozilla Firefox, after some configuration you could type this into your address bar: imdb life of brian, and have those strings glued to the search URL of the Internet’s biggest movie database. Very handy. Especially for extra-special, custom …
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Fixing ill-looking web content: Mozdev’ top50
This is an old post, which I’ll just publish, in the light of the increasing Greasemonkey adoption. An example of amazing Wikipedia usage. Yes, it’s the animate the diff list. Very fancy. Here, the old text: This thing started with me bashing a perfectly usable, but not perfect, website. I named names, being a complete …
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Swedish art scene in few words
My main man and artist Paul Steen gives it up on the state of the art scene in Sweden, right now: > Konsten lever i hÃ¥lor och dunkla källare enligt min senaste > undersökning i modetidningen bon. det är inne med subjektivitet och > personliga berättelser i Sverige, och det är OK att teckna och …
Job opening: Entertainer
My friend Robert Snorrasson, [**robactor** at **yahoo** daaaht **com**] the actor, has a job for you. I’ll get you in touch, if you feel up to it. The job is as an onboard entertainer on a ferry. I’ll just include Robert’s letter here. > Hey friends. > As you know, I work on the DFDS …
Charity Party
Get partying, come to Copenhagen, meet nice people. This is an order. **Henrik’s Charity Party** Entrance fee: 20 DKK 3rd of June 2005 Vestergade 3 (Det skandinaviske selskab)
The President’s Analyst (1967)
OK, this is a one-liner: I have to see The President’s Analyst (1967) before I die. James Coburn! In a wig! Take a look at that photo in the gallery.
Exploring with Wiki
Today I started reading a book (Extreme Programming Explained, by Kent Beck) that I borrowed from Brian (Kodehoved). It was inspirational. It brought a tear to me eye, literally. It makes me want to start the Test-driven development tomorrow. And I will. No procrastinating. And source code control. SVN > CVS, I think. But how …
Murphy’s Laws of Combat Operations
Eric Meyer tells about Murphy’s Laws of Combat Operations, which the wargamer in me (yeah, he is sort of small and does not come out much) thought was a gas. * If your attack is going really well, you’re in an ambush.
Privacy, comments and blogs
I have had the first outside-my-circle reaction to this blog. I had typed something disparaging and incorrect about a website. And published it here. I named names. **Doh.** Should not have done. (And I shouldn’t go on in any way about websites sucking.) (Ms. Koi: From now on I shall refrain from snide and useless …