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Blog Layout and Implementation Improvements
I've redone my blog's layout to remind myself how terrible CSS is -- err I mean to play with the more advanced features of CSS 2.1 which are all now available in IE8. As part of the new layout I've...
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Dave's Blog Entries Last Year
Inspired by one of Penn's (of Penn & Teller) articles in which he mentions he has his computer tell him what he wrote in his journal that day the previous year, I've wanted to implement a similar...
View ArticleIE8 Search Providers, Accelerators, and Local Applications Hack
There's no easy way to use local applications on a PC as the result of an accelerator or a search provider in IE8 but there is a hack-y/obvious way, that I'll describe here. Both accelerators and...
View ArticleCreating Accelerators for Other People's Web Services
Before we shipped IE8 there were no Accelerators, so we had some fun making our own for our favorite web services. I've got a small set of tips for creating Accelerators for other people's web...
View ArticleParents Visited
My parents visited this past weekend, met Sarah's parents, saw our house, and met our bunny. On Friday we went to BluWater in Kirkland which was pretty busy and the service was slower and slightly...
View ArticleTime/Date Conversion Tool
I built timestamp.exe, a Windows command line tool to convert between computer and human readable date/time formats mostly for working on the first run wizard for IE8. We commonly write out our dates...
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Comcast Digital Switch Impact on My Windows Media Center
Irritatingly out of line with what their commercials say, in my area Comcast, under the covers of the national broadcast digital switch, is sneaking in their own switch to digital, moving channels...
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Grocery Shopper Data Use
QFC, the grocery store closest to me, has those irritating shoppers cards. They try to motivate me to use it with discounts, but that just makes me want to use a card, I don't care whose card and I...
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Thanksgiving 2009
Sarah and I had Thanksgiving dinner at our house the Sunday before. Sarah's parents and siblings came as well as my parents who came up for the a handful of days. It was our first time hosting...
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Android eBook Reader And Makers
I was reading Makers, Cory Doctorow's latest novel, as it was serialized on Tor's website but with no ability to save my place within a page I set out to find a book reading app for my G1 Android...
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Lessons Learned From Paintball
I played paintball for the first time at Eric's bachelor party a couple months ago. With the worst of my bruises fading I'm examining what I've learned:Wearing a big jacket was a good idea, but another...
View ArticleCheap Multiplayer Tricks for New Super Mario Bros. Wii
The New Super Mario Bros. Wii is a great game. Its the fun of old school Mario with the addition of great graphics and the kind of multiplayer I've wanted for Mario since playing the original as a...
View ArticleWPAD Server Fiddler Extension
I've made a WPAD server Fiddler extension and in a fit of creativity I've named it: WPAD Server Fiddler Extension.Of course you know about Fiddler, Eric's awesome HTTP debugger tool, the HTTP proxy...
View ArticleView PDFs on Android
Irritatingly, my G1 won't show me PDFs so I've made the Google Docs PDF viewer which will load PDFs on the web up in Google Docs. Google Docs has the useful ability to display PDFs in web browsers...
View ArticleThought Experiments and Design Principles
Raymond Chen has some thought experiments useful for discovering various kinds of stupidity in software design: What if two programs did this?Who says there's only one?Imagine if this were possible. /...
View ArticleMethods of Watching TV
If you've got cable, Internet, and Netflix you end up with a large number of TV viewing options. Its nice to have the options but is there some way to collect and summarize my available options at any...
View ArticlePhotos Bahamas Anecdote
Sarah and I just got back home from a Eric and Jane's wedding / Sarah and Dave's vacation trip to the Bahamas (note the lack of activity for the past twelve days on my website). I've got plenty of...
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Leaving the IE Team for Windows
I'm making a switch from the IE team to the Windows team where I'll be working on the next version of Windows. As a going away surprise Jen and Nick added me to my gallery of Bill Gates (discussed...
View ArticleEncode-O-Matic Update: Compression, Hex View, Quick Show Output
I've just put up an update for Encode-O-Matic with the following improvements:Hex editor: the output and input views can now be switched between a UTF8 textbox view and a hex editor view. This is built...
View ArticleEasy: Connect your RSS or Atom feed to Google Buzz
It was relatively easy, although still more difficult than I would have guessed, to hook my bespoke website's Atom feed up to Google Buzz. I already have a Google email account and associated profile...
View ArticleEncode-O-Matic: Guess Encoding
I've just updated Encode-O-Matic with a Guess Input Encoding feature. When you start Encode-O-Matic or when you use the 'Guess Input Encoding' menu item from the 'Tools' menu, Encode-O-Matic will try...
View ArticleCalifornia Wedding Planning Trip
Sarah and I are just back from a successful wedding planning trip to California. We now have cake, food, officiant, makeup, and some other things. Planning weddings is tough. It was also, of course, a...
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I'm Married!
Did I mention that I got married two weeks ago today on May 29th? Its true! Our wedding was a kind of planning singularity -- all of my planning efforts would get sucked into that day and I couldn't...
View ArticleAnimated GIF From Wedding
From Angie's photos of my wedding there's a sequence of four photos where everyone's holding still except me. Of course I turned this into an animated GIF using GIF Make, to produce my animated wedding...
View ArticleFirst Time Pulled Over
I was pulled over for the first time this past Thursday. I got a citation because the tabs on my car were out of date. Oops.
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