Firefox catches a cold

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Yesterday I upgraded to Firefox 1.5.0.1. Everything seemed fine. This morning though I can’t open any window without getting this error message:

XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
Line Number 1, Column 1:

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Safari Tip 1: Reloading Stylesheets

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Safari 2.0 (and probably other versions) does not reload stylesheets when you reload a page, not even if you hold down the shift key when pressing Reload, not even if you quit and restart the browser. This makes it difficult to debug your CSS. You can force Safari to reload the stylesheet by (more…)

Why web sites need editors

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

“Basically, Flickr is what butters the borders between your photos to the people you want to see them.” http://www.flickr.com/learn_more.gne

Visualizing Track Logs with Google Maps

Sunday, January 15th, 2006

The track logs from my GPS unit look like this:

Format: DDD  M/D/Y H:M:S  -4.00 hrs  Datum[108]: WGS 84
ID	Date Time	Latitude	Longitude	Altitude
L	ACTIVE LOG
T	01/13/2006 14:15:56	40.63935	-74.02917	22.2
T	01/13/2006 14:18:57	40.64027	-74.03097	17.9
T	01/13/2006 14:20:36	40.64095	-74.03195	27.1
T	01/13/2006 14:22:53	40.64061	-74.03347	26.6
T	01/13/2006 14:26:08	40.64065	-74.03324	26.1
...

It occurred to me that someone must have integrated this with Google Maps and I was right. GPSVisualizer can convert these into a Google Map like this one:

Map created by GPSVisualizer.com


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Atom Podcasts

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

John LeMasney asked a good question during my RSS and Atom presentation last night to the Princeton Linux Users Group that I didn’t know how to answer. Do Podcast clients, especially iTunes, support Atom Podcasts yet? I know Atom has the necessary elements but do the clients recognize them?
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Exploring Editors

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

I’m investigating external Weblog editors. I’m surprised there are no simple plugins for BBEdit or jEdit to handle this, and there doesn’t appear to any real open source software.
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