Made another Gaim Guifications theme! 
I like this one better my previous one.
Installation
Linux:
~/.gaim/guifications/themes/
Windows:
C:\Program Files\Gaim\pixmaps\gaim\guifications\themes\
Gaim->Plugins->Guifications->Themes and tick the Loaded check box in to enable theme.Other themes available here.
Are you only interested in certain topics I blog about? Don’t want to have to read, or even see, all the other cruft? Well, don’t fret your pretty little head, I have just the thing for you.
Use the existing search tool on my blog to search for the topic of interest. On the results page, the URL should look something like this:
http://www.stevenbrown.ca/blog/index.php?s=topic
Now, replace “index.php” with “feed“. That’s it. So, if I was interested in entries about the Zaurus, I would now have:
http://www.stevenbrown.ca/blog/feed?s=zaurus
Put that new URL in your favourite feed reader, and you’re done! This should work all WordPress blogs.
Yeah, I thought that was pretty cool, too.
I usually stuff random things in notes (using TomBoy) that I think might be interesting to blog about. Usually they build up and eventually get trashed – few see the bloggish light at the end of the tunnel. Except for today.
Random Links:
Viewing
Reading
Other..-ing
Well, I eventually got tired of my blog looking almost identical to all other WordPress 1.5 blogs, so I updated it with a new header image! W00p! I spent a ridiculous amount of time screwing around with the Gimp to finally end up with that. All photo content stolen from my diving trip in Japan. Oh, good times. About a year ago, this day, too! That’s almost freaky.
Other stuff (some kinda old, all very geeky)
[0:45:00] Miguel demos Mono
[1:05:00] Nat Friedman demos a bunch of cool things
Mainly about 64 bits being better better than 32. The thing I found most interesting was the new Metro document format; kind of like Microsoft’s own PDF. They’re making it open and want viewing them to be application independent, giving the example of distributhing PowerPoint presentations on them. The demo of the document organization was pretty cool, too.
Speaking of PDFs…
I recently installed Evince. It’s quite nice, but it’s still alpha software (if that). I found it a little slow, and there’s no rotation, yet! (I needed PDF rotation when I was studying.) Apparently, the latest CVS version already speeds up page rendering a huge amount, and other progress is being made quite fast. Cool.
Oh yeah, I finally moved into the Gnome 2.10 world. Actually, I tried doing a bunch of things at once: Gnome 2.10, Beagle (requires DBUS, which requires INOTIFY, which requires a newer kernel, so….), and the latest kernel. Needless to say, it was not a smooth process. At first, I tried kernel 2.6.11, but I could not connect my Zaurus. No good. So, apparently, a bug was introduced into the 2.6.11 kernel at some point. Downgrade to 2.6.10. More config’ing. Building. Finally, it works. Unfortunately, my tablet is now acting funky. I just can’t win.
For anyone else using a tablet on Xorg, this is something I was not aware of:
Currently (as of release 6.7), the XOrg server does not support any form of hotplug for input devices. The server knows about those devices that were present and configured at the time it was started, but it is not possible to add or remove devices during the lifetime of the server. The Linux platform supports hotplugging for mice and keyboards in an ad-hoc way by aggregating events from all mice into a special device (/dev/input/mice) and events from all keyboards are routed to the console driver.
My tablet was actually working on my previous kernel, but I didn’t realize it for a long time because you have to have the tablet plugged in when starting X.
Oh, right; Beagle. Beagle’s pretty cool. Beagle is actually just a daemon, and what most people think of when they see a picture of “Beagle” is actually “Best,” a graphical client that interacts with Beagle. Best has a command-line equivalent. It’s made me remember things I’d forgotten, just by entering random words. It’s fun, but I wouldn’t say it’s useful, quite yet. Next on the to-try list: Dashboard. heheheh
Whew! I’m spent.
I recently stumbled upon Guifications , a notification plug-in for Gaim. Even more recently, I discovered it has a built in theme editor!… so I made a theme. It’s called iZM_Blue, because I was feeling creative. It’s simple, clean, and most importantly, blue. I based it off the default theme to have existing support for all the events. Comments and Suggestions welcome.
Installation
Linux:
~/.gaim/guifications/themes/
Windows:
C:\Program Files\Gaim\pixmaps\gaim\guifications\themes\
Gaim->Plugins->Guifications->Themes and tick the Loaded check box in to enable theme.Other themes available here.
Holy crap! My site’s not down! Rock!
Well, actually, I should study. But I can post something short, like this: Currently installed Firefox extensions. I should actually uninstall a couple, cuz I don’t use them.
What does everyone else use? Post links to your extensions in the comments! (List generated w/Listzilla extension).
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