07.12.07 - 02:38pm
I was hitting a bug with T-bird’s RSS reader, which I think I have now finally worked around. I have not been able to add new feeds for some time; and previously I had hit a bug where my feeds stopped updating. I fixed that by (wrongly) deleting the feeditems.rdf file from my T-bird profile. That seemed to cause other problems that I don’t officially claim to understand.
Today, I exported my feeds, created a new RSS account, imported my feeds to that, and then deleted my old RSS account. This works brilliantly and I was able to add new feeds immediately to the new account. (Including a feed that required HTTP Basic Authentication, which I hadn’t been able to use at all previously)
It’s worth mentioning that I had tried out ThunderBrowse as a way to work around the HTTP Auth problem I was having, but it seems not to handle HTTP Auth requests at all. Too bad; ThunderBrowse could be really neat with a little bit of massaging; I hope it gets it.
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04.30.07 - 04:18pm
So I have been using this little tool for a while to look at the output of “cvs diff -up8″ as HTML before submitting patches to bugzilla. It seems to be working pretty well for me, so I thought I’d go ahead and make it more widely available. I would love to get feedback and/or patches for it. I worked up some fixes today to make its output validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. Since I can’t upload anything but images, I’ve hosted it elsewhere. And yes, I realize it’s relatively ugly perl-code.
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03.13.07 - 11:23am
I really liked the Penn Jillette radio show. Too bad it’s been canceled.
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03.12.07 - 07:56am
Apropos of nothing, this article from the Economist is a fascinating read.
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03.01.07 - 02:00pm
It’s addictive.
The high comes (or at least, the best hits are) when two conditions are met: 1) something you do benefits someone else, and 2) you know about it. Today, for me, it happened to hit me when a random comment I made in a random bug more than a year old helped someone else fix the bug. Yeah, that’s right: I didn’t even actually fix the bug. But I helped someone else do it. And yeah, it’s not a bug the fixing of which will protect anyone’s credit-card numbers or identity, but somehow it’s still a pretty good high.
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03.01.07 - 10:43am
Y’all probably already saw this; it’s so 24-hours ago.
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03.01.07 - 10:32am
Reading Gen Kanai’s blog-post here makes me think we have a real opportunity in a market we haven’t cracked yet. What do we need to do to make the Korean SEED Active-X control work in our browser without introducing all the other mayhem which comes with Active-X? I looked at the source for the Active-X control in our tree and it looks as though some thought has been made for restricting (whitelisting/blacklisting) controls, but in my cursory examination I didn’t find the actual code that uses the preferences documented for this. I’m not very familiar with this code. Who is? How good is our Korean localization, in general? Am I wrong in thinking this is a very big, very obvious opportunity?
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