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Laidback Geek, Mark Yuasa's blog for people who like games and gadgets but aren't obsessed with them »

Laidback Geek, Mark Yuasa's blog for people who like games and gadgets but aren't obsessed with them
I like video games (and only ever sports games and race car games, not FPS or role-playing games), only play them in streaks, not all the time, and don't always have to have the latest shiniest new toy.

tags: gaming, geeky, laid back | # | 2 comments Jul. 31st, 2008

Use TextMate to edit text inside Firefox »

Use TextMate to edit text inside Firefox
I remember when this was called Object Linking and Embedding.

tags: Firefox, TextMate, geeky | # | 1 comment Feb. 26th, 2007

pb is going off the Flickr grid »

pb is going off the Flickr grid
I kind of want to have my photos on a justagwailo.com subdomain too. (I'd even use Flickr if they let me point to their servers, for the community features pb describes.)

tags: Flickr, geeky, s3 | # | comment Feb. 16th, 2007

How to use OpenID (a screencast) »

How to use OpenID (a screencast)

tags: OpenID, geeky, screencast | # | comment Dec. 22nd, 2006

Multisite and Mass hosting Drupal »

Multisite and Mass hosting Drupal
"This tool is called HostMaster, and is Bryght's answer to mass hosting Drupal."

tags: Bryght, Drupal, Jabber, OpenID, PostgreSQL, Python, XML-RPC, XMPP, geeky, identity | # | 1 comment Dec. 22nd, 2006

How to turn your blog in to an OpenID »

How to turn your blog in to an OpenID
Though I don't think I'll use my weblog as my OpenID URL (I have another URL in mind), Simon's article spurs me to actually do it.

tags: OpenID, geeky, identity | # | comment Dec. 20th, 2006

Issue for adding microformat support in the Location module for Drupal »

Issue for adding microformat support in the Location module for Drupal
Just having hCard didn't make sense, so I added 'geo' support. Note my patch needs testing, so therefore has not been approved yet.

tags: Drupal, geeky, geo, hcard, location, microformats, vcard | # | comment Dec. 19th, 2006

Mozilla Labs releases Operator, a Firefox extension for using microformats embedded in pages »

Mozilla Labs releases Operator, a Firefox extension for using microformats embedded in pages
This spurred me on to add the 'geo' microformat to my SkyTrain explorer pages, though it took hacking Drupal's Location module to do it.

tags: Firefox, geeky, microformats | # | comment Dec. 19th, 2006

Ten Web 2.0 APIs you can really use »

Ten Web 2.0 APIs you can really use
I use some of them, but only ever through libraries since I hate parsing XML.

tags: API, Amazon, Atom, Google, OpenID, a3, ec2, geeky | # | comment Dec. 18th, 2006

microformatique is a weblog about microformats »

microformatique is a weblog about microformats

tags: geeky, microformats | # | comment Dec. 14th, 2006

Flickr feature request: RSS feeds and/or API call for searching photos by camera »

Flickr Camera Finder is good but not great: I want the river of Canon Rebel XTI photos so I can learn from those who have similar equipment to me.

tags: Flickr, RSS, Rebel XTi, canon, geeky, xti | # | comment Dec. 9th, 2006

Stupid .htaccess tricks »

Stupid .htaccess tricks

tags: .htaccess, Apache, geeky, via:mathowie | # | comment Nov. 24th, 2006

Eric Sink says that localization and internationalization just don't matter »

Eric Sink says that localization and internationalization just don't matter
Probably true for developer tools, almost certainly not true for end-user software.

tags: geeky, i18n, internationalization, l10n, localization | # | comment Nov. 20th, 2006

browser.chrome.toolbar_tips set to FALSE disables tooltips on links in Firefox 2 »

browser.chrome.toolbar_tips set to FALSE disables tooltips on links in Firefox 2
That's a bug, but the setting change was recommended by a widely-linked tip. Changing it back to TRUE.

tags: Firefox, browser.chrome.toolbar_tips, geeky | # | comment Nov. 17th, 2006

James Walker posts slides and links to the video of his FSOSS talk on how Drupal kicks ass »

James Walker posts slides and links to the video of his FSOSS talk on how Drupal kicks ass

tags: Drupal, FSOSS, Toronto, geeky, walkah | # | comment Nov. 3rd, 2006

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