For some insane reason, Slate decided to add something horrible called “meebo” to every web page. Here’s how you block and hide it using the Adblock extension with Google Chrome. Manually edit your filter and add these lines: meebo.com ##div#meebo.meebo-00 The first line prevents you from downloading content from the meebo website, but sadly, [...]
If someone wanted to ransom every picture you ever took and all your music and your thesis to you, and you didn’t have a good enough relationship wtih Chuck Norris to ask him to hunt them down and roundhouse kick them into infinity meaning you had to pony up, how much money would you pay? [...]
Loyal readers of this blog have been enjoying Platypus Friday for a while now. Today, I’m introducing a new weekly item called Tech Tuesday. Wait wait, don’t run away! My goal for Tech Tuesday is not just to nerd-herd everyone into the deep end, but rather to cover a broad spectrum of topics in a [...]
Folks reading my blog via an RSS reader probably haven’t noticed, but I’ve recently refreshed the look of chizang’s web 6.0. If you haven’t seen it yet, come on over and check it out. It’s a lot shinier! While the base theme (Fontella) was a nice start, one thing it lacked was WordPress widget support, [...]
The problem with being a nerd is that you’ve had a peek into the sausage factory and you can see that they’re pumping out oodles of delicious looking meatamins so you think about running over and just sticking your mouth at the end of the line. But you know that at some point, the [...]
A while ago, Mark blogged about the new Ubuntu branding effort that was introduced in Lucid and will continue to be carried forward for future releases. Notably: On the consumer/enterprise spectrum, we took inspiration from the aerospace industry, and identified a texture of closely spaced dots. When you see more of that, it means we’re [...]
Researchers Masaki Kita and Daisuke Uemura have isolated the peptides in platypus venom that induces pain in humans. The peptides induce calcium ions to rush into cells, and as we all know, calcium ions bring the pain (or perhaps more accurately, lead to long-term potentiation (LTP), which is basically…. pain). In what was news to [...]
Computer folks, especially Linux hackers, are a little weird when it comes to vacation. A lot of them look forward to a large uninterrupted block of time so they can focus on their personal programming projects. The reason this is weird is because to the observer, the form of what the hacker is doing remains [...]
Apologies if you’re reading this via a reader. I discovered a bug in twitter tools and decided to fix it. The bug was that it wasn’t linking to hash tags properly because it had some weird regexp that limited it to 15 characters. I hate fixing regexps. Really. Especially in a language that I don’t [...]
Actually, sometimes there are stupid questions. Especially if you keep asking your question, hearing an answer you don’t like, and then re-asking your question hoping to hear a different answer. The Linux kernel mailing list has a reputation for being somewhat unfriendly, but for the most part, it’s actually quite civil. The experienced folks often [...]