Tag Archives: hacks

Ficlets enhanced author feed, an XSL scraper hack

I’ve been trying to get myself serious about writing and even set up a personal slush pile for my output. Then, I found Ficlets, and spewed a few quick starter stories there. And then… I stopped. I’m hoping to pick it up again very soon, but I guess that’s the nature of [...]

i’m in the nintendo ds homebrew club now

Passscard is the perfect flash card boot-up solution for DS LITE & NDS . It is compatible with most types of flash cards including M3, Neo, SC & G6 etc. Source: Divineo.com – Product Information I’ve just received a Passcard 3 in the mail. Nintendo DS homebrew, here I come! I’m particularly excited about NitroTracker [...]

Ajaxitagging

Ever since I switched over to a new CMS back in February, I’ve been tagging all my journal entries. Until now, I haven’t been doing anything with those tags apart from exposing them in category elements in my RSS feed. Now that I’ve got a good head of steam going with my tags, I’ve decided [...]

Stupid fun with fax machines

Random Stuff Sent From Your Fax MachineFax something interesting to 1-510-545-0990 Source: Fax Toy – Random Stuff You Fax To Us It’s fun to fax anonymously! And it’s fun to have yet another opportunity for meta. First person to fax their ass from the Christmas party loses.

Yahoo for stalking iPods in the hands of couriers

If the new Yahoo! Maps were really cool, they’d’ve already done a mashup with DHL to let me obsessively stalk the courier in whose truck my returning iPod repair currently rests. Come on, get with the program! When we’ve got GPS watches, “Status: With delivery courier / Location: (blank)” is no way to [...]

Could an iPod and AV cable fit in a DVD case?

Being able to listen to audio while in the “natural” places you listen to audio (in the car, while walking/running, on the couch, etc.) is what accelerated audio Podcasts to the phenomenon it is today. Now that there is a way to view video the same way … that’s going to accelerate that new [...]

RedHanded » Announcing the MouseHole Proxy

MouseHole is a scriptable proxy. Like Greasemonkey, but scripts are in Ruby.Source: RedHanded » Announcing the MouseHole Proxy MouseHole looks pretty freakin’ sweet. It’s doing one of the things I never got around to making AgentFrank do. Every now and then I get an itch to revisit that project (or, more likely, its Pythonic [...]

Building an Address Book as a Modern Web App

So, in the spirit of pico-projects, I’ve started building that address book application I mentioned awhile ago and I want to start writing about it as I go.