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Archive for May 2004

a little pride, a little confusion

Posted on 5/31/2004

day 2 of the SuSE experiment….
I discovered last night that Kate has good code highlighting, and I like the font smoothing and toolbars better than those in jEdit, which I had to start from the console anyway.
I’m splitting my browsing between Firefox, which works more like I’m used to both in terms of keyboard shortcuts […]

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it’s been done, and by someone better than y’all

Posted on 5/30/2004

I’m not going to comment on this whole Purple Numbers (Pink Hearts?!) thing, except to say that Joe Clark added ids to every damn element of the HTML version of his book…last summer. (at the time, “unique on the Web”!) I thought it was pretty cool, and have even once sent a link […]

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more fun with linux

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I did some cleanup of my own hard drive yesterday, backed up everything important, and installed SuSE. and you know what? I think I like it. I still don’t really understand how to install software properly, but despite that I’ve gotten jEdit and Firefox running already. (didn’t care much for Konqueror […]

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hey, it’s linux!

Posted on 5/28/2004

C installed SuSE, which we got with a copy of Linux User & Developer we picked up at Fred Meyer (!), on his computer today…now I’m playing around with it; gravitating towards the browser, naturally. (it comes with Konqueror; I’d like to try installing Mozilla.)
I’m actually pretty impressed with the look and feel…not as […]

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ouroboros roadmap, but first a roadmap for my kitchen

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I think I’ve figured out what I want to do with the project that is rapidly turning into an actual fork of feed on feeds. this version is mostly going to focus on recreating the things that FOF already does, but more stylishly (I hope), plus adding some settings stuff to build for the […]

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ouroboros progress

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the “panel” has I think all of the features it used to have (except view feeds: new/today/all), and a pretty design besides. I can check boxes next to each feed and click to update, clear (”mark read”) or delete that feed.
fixed, I think, the bug in the OPML with case sensitivity problems (OPML documentation […]

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Hi! This is Elaine Nelson's site, which used to be at epersonae.com, and which is sometimes known as emergency weblog.