Acts of Volition

I spent last week in New England visiting some clients, friends, and geeks. The geeks part was at the Linux World Expo and Fedora Users & Developers Conference. I’ve posted some photos from the trip.  •  The Linux World Expo was comprised mostly of creepy salesmen at booths with microphones giving …

For slice of readership to whom this type of thing is relevant, I have compiled an overview of of the inconsistencies in file-save confirmation dialogs in Gnome. There is also a page with screenshots of the dialogs in question. I’ve posted the overview to the Gnome desktop development mailing list …

When I was growing up, my bedroom was always a mess. Every week or two, my parents would get me to clean my room. I wasn’t interested in cleaning my room, but I had to get it to at least pass a quick visual inspection my mom or dad.  •  To make sure I passed the informal inspection with minimal …

This might seem obvious to anyone who uses the Gnome desktop environment for Linux, but since most of you don’t, I thought it worth pointing out. In Gnome, You can put “emblems” on files or folders. The emblems are small icons that help differentiate and identify particular items. They work …

Pet peeve: people who use the word “creative” as a noun. Example:  •  ““The ad will run on Friday, but the creative will be ready by Wednesday.””  •  If you say things like that, I don’t like you. Don’t bother offering justifications.  •  (disclosure: According to Dictionary.com, “creative” can be …

Weblogs are abuzz* today with the the Google Suggest beta featuring javascript-powered auto-complete in the search box.  •  I’d like to float an obvious (I think) suggestion for Firefox. I would like to see the Google search bar that is built-in to Firefox have this Google Suggestion auto-complete …

I came across an article on LinuxWorld.com today that was so buried in other site features and advertising, that I had to share it.  •  This full-size screenshot (1.5MB) shows the full length of the page, with the actual article text highlighted in red. This smaller version gives a good feel of … read more »

I use a few Firefox extensions that I thought might be useful to others. Here’s a quick overview of the extensions I use and why I like them.  •  Linky  •  I’ve written about Linky before, and I still use it regularly. Linky is a simple extension that adds the ability to open a group of links in …

Here’s a quick idea I had while chatting with someone in Australia via instant-messaging this morning.  •  I would like to see a plugin/extension for Gaim (or any other instant messaging application, but especially Gaim, since it’s the one I use) that showed the local time zone of the person … read more »