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Proud for (a) Change
It seems a bit unnecessary to blog about how I feel about Barack Obama getting elected. The momentous nature of this election is glaringly obvious and is surely amplifying the particular sense of elation or disappointment that we each feel. Thus, while my feelings may be individually unique, they are by no means extraordinary. Nonetheless…
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Removing Google’s Search Box On Your iGoogle Homepage
The “iGoogle Search Toggle” GreaseMonkey script solves a problem that’s annoyed me for a long time. Google’s custom home page feature, iGoogle, is great, except that the top 1/3rd of the page is occupied by a giant logo and search box. This is redundant with the search box that your browser already provides, and takes…
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Correction: Web 2.0 Sucks For Reviews
There’s an interesting phenomenon taking place lately that I find a bit disturbing. It has to do with how consumers are leveraging their newly discovered online powers of opinion. In principle, I think empowering people by given them tools to communicate with one another is a good thing – people should be able to be…
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Javascript UUID Function
[UPDATE – 1/3/2010: For the latest/greatest implementation of a JavaScript UUID function, please check out my node-uuid project. Any future improvements/enhancements to this code will be made there.] [UPDATE – 9/1/2011: ‘Seeing reports of UUID collisions in the wild. Johannes Baagoe has a write up on why Math.random() can’t be trusted. I’m not entirely sure…
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How To: SMC Barricade 7004WBR + HP-5MP + MacOSX
I’ve written previously about my HP-5MP printer. One of the things I love about it is that I’ve been able to get it to work with every computer I’ve ever had in my house – PC, Mac, Linux, you name it. Not only that, but for probably the last 8 years, I’ve been able to…