Two things have happened recently that have given me cause for the aforementioned consumption of head-ware. Those that know me will know I’m quite attached to my hat and so eating it would be rather painful for me. However, I’ve been forced to do it, twice in the space of a single week:
I’ve started using Eclipse a lot, remember the Vi is great post a while back?
I really like Gmail, something which I also thought would never happen. Web-based email, I’d say, Pah! Give me a rich-client any-day!
I added a couple of features to the commenting system.
The first is a “preview comment” feature. Type in your comment and hit preview and you’ll be shown what the server will very likely spit out for your comment. I say very likely because the server may interpret JavaScript slightly differently to your browser and so things may not quite work. However, I’ve used simple code so it should all be fine. Crossed fingers…
Thisoldnewthing has an insight into the Add/Remove Programs dialog. This dialog has entries on program sizes and usage patterns. It turns out that this information is based on guesswork half the time, with a simple “who has the most words that match what I think the program is called” algorithm used to determine which programs to use when calculating the numbers.
Yes, this is all lame, but when you are forced to operate with inadequate information, lame is the best you can do.
Simplebits has posted a really nice greyscale icon set. I wondered if they would look good on this site, given that dx13 is greyscale too? On the other hand, they could just make the entire site look washed out, which I think I manage to avoid quite well right now. So I decided against them for the time being.
Nice icons, anyway, and I thought I’d point them out in case anyone is in the market for minimalist icons.
Just a great idea from Mr Veen. Genius. No I am not going to tell you, go and look for yourself.
Update
I suddenly thought that I wouldn’t bother to visit a link when given so little information about the link. Therefore I decided to relent and write a little more. I was tired when I posted it, there’s your excuse!
Veen has come up with a nifty use of wget, a command line tool for downloading files. He has worked out a really nice combination of options that allow you to scrape a page for links to mp3s and download them. You can set it up to look at so-called mp3 blogs — which post new music each day — and pull the linked mp3s. The options ensure that files are not downloaded more than once, so you don’t waste bandwidth.