Sam’s random musings

NetNewsWire 2.0 Released!:

NetNewsWire 2.0 streamlines the award-winning RSS and Atom newsreader by removing the weblog editor and adding many new newsreading features.

Go get it folks it is another great step forward, congrats Brent as always a great work.

(Via Ranchero.)

How are you using GTDTiddlyWiki?:

GTDTiddlyWiki - all your tasks are belong to you

I’m really intrigued by GTDTiddlyWiki, which is a very clever wiki for implementing David Allen’s Getting Things Done system. It’s definitely very fun to use and a bit of a technical marvel (tip: shutting off animations under “Options” greatly sped things up for me).

(Also: lively thread on the Google Group)

This is way cool, mind boggling so

(Via 43 Folders.)

Ok so there is an update to firefox… what do you do, you can click on the deal in the picture. Then you get to a page http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/central.html ok show me the download link. come on show me. where is it? Let’s count clicks.

1. support link - opps no dowload there
2. products link - no download link
3. click firefox link on the products page, ah there’s the link. Why the heck is this not the page that one goes to at the beginning, it has all the same stuff, but it has a friggen download link.

SACK: Simple Ajax Code Kit:

The Simple Ajax Code Kit (SACK) is a javascript library that takes the hassle out of AJAX programming. Key features are:

• Simple and light to implement.
• Addresses security issues that toolkits such as SAJAX have.
• Handles international strings (UTF-8).

This actually looks like a nice clean ‘kit’. As I am in the midst of some projects that already use some rough proof of concept implementations of AJAX (still a funky term for me) I am going to be looking at this today.

(Via Weblog Tools Collection.)

Block Prefetching:

A simple PHP code fragment to block Mozilla and Google’s prefetching, useful in CMSes and other areas where GET requests may perform actions.

Let the defense begin

(Via ILoveJackDaniels.com.)

Google down? Google hacked/not hacked!:

Not normally something we’d cover, but damn, is Google down? Is such a thing even possible? Anyone know what’s going on?

UPDATE: They’re back! Seriously, anyone have any idea what happened?

Wonder if this was payback for all the breakage their accelerator caused… Karmatic at least…

(Via Engadget.)

The badish: at some point some app yesterday raised the slider on this control and I thought my monitor on my mini was going wonky. All of a sudden the screen was washed out. I tried playing with the monitor settings, did some color profiles, switched from the analog cable and adaptor to a digital connection (the analog works with my KVM) even tried another monitor… Then I clicked on the “universal access” icon and noticed it set about half way. Put it back and all was good in Sam land.

Spotlight is bugging me a little bit. It indexes after I save a realbasic project or build, if I try to save again quickly it throws a file busy error and I have to wait a second to be able to save, I am uncomfortable with not being able to save when I want. It also makes me nervous when the act of saving throws an error.

Built in Pivot support for my Samsung LCD YEA!

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.:

“Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.”

(Via Motivational Quotes of the Day.)