Fixing horrible websites

Sometimes the choices someone else did in their CSS does not suit you. Often, you give up, never to come back to their site, or fiddle with the size of your browser window. Using Firefox and its [Developer Toolbar](http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/) extension by Chris Pedrick, I have now gotten around to using my own stylesheets (with small …

Neologism: “Podmenting” (augment media using podcast)

O’Reilly tech dude Rael Dornfest is also a Battlestar Galactica fan, I take it. He tips us off to **a podcast you can watch in tandem with the TV episodes**. The producers have used this “small parts loosely coupled” methodology to give fans more than they can cram onto DVD’s (that are on tight shipping …

Using wiki as CMS

Peter Rukavina’s neighbours, Silverorange, got their stuff in gear and set up a very beautiful MediaWiki installation which they dubbed WikiPEI (that’s Prince Edward Island, to you). Steven Garrity blogs about it in his blog Acts of Volition. It’s refreshing to see more of the meme WikiAsWebsite, and Steven [has made a list](http://www.actsofvolition.com/archives/2005/september/wikiaswebsite) of examples …

Flickr search plugin for Firefox

The productive Christian Heindel, who created the Plazes .NET launcher has done it again. A Firefox search plugin for public Flickr tags. That means that what I wanted to do before is now very, very easy. And the search for [freeform](http://flickr.com/photos/tags/freeform/) works like it should. [Roleplaying](http://flickr.com/photos/tags/roleplaying/) yields the same Stockholm pictures, now in more traditional …

Runestone – Game Development

Ã…rhus-based game developer [Runestone](http://www.runestone.dk/index.php?page=2) is an interesting case of *our guys* using their resources and aiming for the sky. [Greg Costikyan](http://costik.com/)’s latest call to action in [Escapist](http://www.escapistmagazine.com/): [Death to the Games Industry, Long Live Games](http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/8/3) might have an answer in the courage of these Danish souls. A game on a smaller budget, with a different …

Control your PEAR with PEAR_RemoteInstaller

An alpha release of this PEAR package caught my eye: PEAR_RemoteInstaller. > Originally part of the 1.4.0 new features, > remote installation through FTP is now its own package. > This package adds the commands “remote-install” “remote-upgrade” > “remote-uninstall” and “remote-upgrade-all” to the PEAR core. Neato.

WordPress Plugins Database

For Mac folk out there, Peter Rukavina has made a screencast about using the Del.icio.us service with a couple of loosely coupled applications Mac OS X. For bloggers, and WordPress users foremost, there are many Del.icio.us plugins to choose from. I’m choosing something from the WordPress Plugins Database, but I shall do some reading on …