Category: Software/Tech

  • Better Inkscape Palettes

    Inkscape is a great vector drawing tool, and perhaps my favorite opensource app. One reason being that it is much more polished than most opensource applications (I’m looking at you Gimp and OpenOffice!) But one area that is noticeably lacking is its set of default palettes. In a word, they’re horrid. Of the 18 available,…

  • White Sewing Machine Manuals

    See that picture?  That’s about what it felt like as I was trying to track down the manual for the White #999 sewing machine I bought at a garage sale last week.  I’ll explain below, but if you happen to find this page while on a similar search let me save you a bunch of…

  • JavaScript Inheritance Performance

    One area of the Prototype JavaScript library that I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with is its support for mimicing OO inheritance.   The ability to call $super from within a function to refer to a superclass’ implementation is pretty darn cool, but I’ve found myself more and more annoyed at having to…

  • Steampunk

    *SCHWING*

  • Hakkerz say, “Upgradz!”

    As you can see, the site has a new look this morning. It’s not entirely voluntary, however. Much to my chagrin I discovered that Google seemed to think my site was a great source of information about Viagra and various other prescription drugs. After a little scrounging around, I discovered my WordPress installation (i.e. this…