Mumblings

Tuesday 31st July 07

Mr John Grubber is for the month of August offering everyone access to what was the "members only feed". While I am happy that I no longer have to visit his site for every news update, I am also sad as I quite liked having to see the content on his site. It was almost a break from my feed reader. Still its only a month so I might get to go back in a months time. We will see.

Tuesday 24th July 07

Things I want on a medium sized budget (in no particular order):

Monday 23rd July 07

This time last year we were suffering from a drought and had hose-pipe bans in place. This year rivers are overflowing and houses are flooding.

Tuesday 17th July 07

Since I moved to using WebKit nightly builds another thing that I have missed is being able to use keyword searches. While I could have just installed SafariStand I was unsure as to how it would work with the nightly builds. So instead I created an AppleScript action to use with quicksilver. The script itself is quite simple:

using terms from application "Quicksilver"
    on process text str
        tell application "WebKit"
            activate
            open location "http://google.com/search?q=" & str
        end tell
    end process text
end using terms from

Saving that as google.scpt in ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions/ I am now able to type my Google search in to quicksilver, hit tab, type g and then hit return.

This is the way I hoped that the WebSearch Quicksilver Plugin would have worked. Still everyone's different.

Tuesday 10th July 07

I am quite a fan of using custom user-agent strings to activate things that I don't want users seeing when I am developing new things. As a Camino user it was always very easy for me to add bits to my user-agent by visiting about:config.

However, two weeks ago I switched from Camino to using the WebKit nightly builds. This set a challenge as there was no obvious way of creating my own user-agent. Google searches just told me how to use the debug menu to change the user-agent to a pre-defined string. That was until I stumbled across an article on RubyRoot. It turns out I can set a custom user-agent by running this terminal command: defaults write com.apple.Safari CustomUserAgent ""My user agent string"". I still think this really should be an option in the debug menu.

Monday 9th July 07

So I have had a little ~~re-design~~ re-align around these parts. While I am still not entirely happy and will probably keep tweaking it for a couple of days I thought it was time to release it upon the world. This was long needed as I wanted to bring the photography and the archives in to better view. Although it does mark me leaving the single column layout which I have stuck with for so long.

Sunday 8th July 07

A while back my friend Tom McDowell, asked me if I could create him a site to showcase his jewellery. Nothing complicated just a way to display photos of his work.

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