19th
FEB
The Next Eight Months
If you want to know what will be on my mind over the next eight months, this will help you out. Let the games begin!
[tags]baseball, spring training, Red Sox[/tags]
16th
FEB
The latest grass progress
Filed under Grown Up Stuff
We’ve had some really great weather recently, so I was able to finally mow the new grass in the backyard. I think it’s really coming along, but there are still some bare patches that I’ll need to re-seed once we get more into spring.
14th
FEB
Firefox Tip #2
Filed under Firefox
I love tabbed browsing. I think it is the greatest thing since . . . well, a while ago. Ever since I started using Firefox I’ve become climatized to right-clicking to find the option to open links in new tabs. I just recently became aware that if I hold CTRL while left-clicking on a link it will automagically open it in a new tab. It’s still taking me some getting used to, but I like it a lot. Much easier than the “old” way I was doing it.
[tags]Firefox, tabbed browsing[/tags]
8th
FEB
East v. West Rap “War”
Filed under Made Me Laugh
Not quite the same as in the B.I.G / Tupac feud.
From NY we have the original Lazy Sunday by Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg.
From Cali we have the challenger Lazy Monday by Supdawg.
8th
Funniest.Man.Ever?
Filed under Made Me Laugh
This and this are just too funny! There are so many great things to find on YouTube.com.
[tags]youtube.com, Will Ferrell[/tags]
7th
FEB
One of My Fav Firefox Features
Filed under Technology
One day I was talking with Aj about something online, and she proceeded to type out the full web address for the site she wanted to go to. I asked why she didn’t use Firefox’s built-in web address auto completion feature. Simple answer, she didn’t know about it. I tend to take my geekiness for granted and assume that everyone knows all of the same tricks that I know. So, without further ado, here is how you use this extremely helpful shortcut.
What the address completion does is append the .com/.net/.org to the address, saving you the keystrokes. The first step is to type the center part of the web address into the address line i.e. google, amazon, comcast, webjive. Then, depending on the dot-type you have a different keystroke.
- For .com hold CTRL and hit Enter (google.com, amazon.com)
- For .net hold Shift and hit Enter (comcast.net)
- For .org hold CTRL and Shift, and hit Enter (webjive.org)
The CTRL+Enter .com completion works with IE as well, but the .net and .org completion only works with Firefox.
7th
WP Themes by *ME*
I’ve been working on developing two new Wordpress themes. It’s been challenging to work through issues with how the different web browsers render the pages. I do all of my development in Firefox, and then when I do cross-browser checking everything is fine. Opera is right but — surprise, surprise — Internet Exploder isn’t. So I’ve had to learn how to trick IE into using different margins and the like.
You can check out the themes over here. I’ll eventually post ZIP files of the themes over there as well, so you can download and use the them.
[tags]Wordpress, themes[/tags]
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- jschwanz: tons of NASA links on that list, very cool to see them embrace it January 4, 2009
- jschwanz: list of gov't persons/offices on twitter http://bit.ly/RvYZ January 4, 2009
- jschwanz: Tweet Benefits: @timage bloged today about Figuring Out The Benefits Of Twitter. Here’s what he has to say.. http://tinyurl.com/78f5ev January 4, 2009
- jschwanz: I really like WordPress 2.7, the changes from 2.6 are excellent; quick edit and FTP-less plugin install are my two favorites at the moment January 4, 2009
- jschwanz: @timage nice post on using Twitter January 4, 2009