Southpaw Blog

Firefox 3.6 brought the world Personas. I’m not against them; people really like that kind of thing. I am 100% against the mouseover-to-preview functionality, though. Combined with the fact that they are now shoved in your face and that it’s not trivial to disable it, I’ve lost a little faith in Mozilla. Fortunately, there are [...]

The latest in the long march to version 420, Texto 3.2 features: Domain preferences saved automatically, without clicking a Save button Set file extensions – trigger syntax highlighting in most any editor. It’s tagged as a beta version, because so far I always end up making a x.x.1 version a few minutes later with one [...]

I’ve finally gotten some Mozex-Testo enhancements that I’ve had in mind for years and worked on for months polished to the point where I feel like inflicting them on the world. So here’s my initial release of the thing, possibly to be followed by a rename and submission to AMO (I like the current name, [...]

There are a couple of little tweaks to Firefoc you can make that will simplify extension development greatly – and I always forget them until I’m neck deep in actual work and don’t feel like adjusting my setup.  So here are some essentials, documented for my own purposes in one central place Setup a development [...]

Finally finished David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest.” A couple things: Liked the bits about tennis. Would have to read multiple times to keep all the drugs straight. Dude could write. Reaction to footnotes went: Huh.Oh, boy.Not again.hahahaReally?I need to read #24 again.Don’t make me read #304 again!Whoa, last page of footnotes. Did NOT end how [...]

In downtown Corvallis, there is a popular fountain where maybe 64 (or 36?) jets of water arranged in a square shoot straight up out of the concrete at intervals. On warm afternoons there are always a million happy kids, a fence of watchful, mostly-dry parents, and a few WHARRGARBL dogs. The river is right there, [...]

An old friend decided to drop by this weekend: Mozex-testo 1.13 Works with Firefox 3 now on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Might work on Firefox 2, pretty sure anything older won’t work. Here’s the Mac incantation for MacVim users: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim -g “+set syntax=html” %t Now that it’s caught up to FF3 standards, I think I [...]

I have been struggling for a while to write something about the loss of David Foster Wallace. Struggling partly because I haven’t written anything in a human language for a while, and partly because of my complete feeling of awe towards the man’s work. Nothing I could say would be adequate. Instead I have been [...]

So, unemployment hasn’t reached the point where I don’t have any work to do yet, in fact I’m probably putting in more hours now than I have in the last couple of months. Got this one last project that I really want to see put to bed, and to be honest it’s actually been hugely [...]

Day 5: My supplies are holding, and I have found some of the local vegetation that seems palatable. With the discovery of fresh water, I believe I will be able to hold out here for some time. After a bout with illness that had me bedridden my first day, I have recovered much of my [...]