At work, I’m taking part in organizing and hosting a set of internal, educational conferences that almost half of my co-workers will have attended after summer. It’s four weeks in total with about 30 attendees per week. Since we have five office locations, I haven’t met a lot of these people so there are many [...]
For people who have installed Ubiquity from Mozilla Labs, here’s a user script that enables you to quickly search for words in Wordnik:
makeSearchCommand({
name: “Wordnik”,
url: “http://wordnik.com/{QUERY}”,
icon: “http://wordnik.com/media/img/wordnik.ico”,
description: “Searches Wordnik for your words.”,
preview: function(pblock, directObject) {
var searchTerm = directObject.text;
var [...]
For the Jaiku users who have installed Ubiquity from Mozilla Labs, here’s a user script that enables you to search Jaiku through Jaikungfu (please let me know if you have a suggestion for something shorter and easier to type!)
makeSearchCommand({
name: “jaikungfu”,
url: “http://jaiku.lemonad.org/search?q={QUERY}”,
icon: “http://jaiku.lemonad.org/favicon.ico”,
description: “Jaikungfu search Jaiku.”,
preview: [...]
Hello! It’s been a while.
Karin and I are going backpacking in the north of Sweden. The tentative itinerary is to meet Jonathan and Jessie in Kiruna on the 23rd. They’ll arrive at the airport coming from the US via Stockholm. On the morning of the 24th we’ll start hiking from Abisko and follow Kungsleden for [...]
Some of the information herein has not been updated for a while. Go to Jaikungfu on Google Code for the latest version!
Greasemonkey scripts are great. However, for users and developers alike, they do pose one problem; that of managing updates and bug fixes. There’s no automatic infrastructure set up for it and users might [...]
The below has since been superseded by Jaikungfu, my firefox extension for Jaiku.
This script will create links out of @username and #channel. Before:
with script
After:
without script
To enable this functionality, you will first have to install Greasemonkey. After that, you are ready to install the Jaiku AutoLink script. Please email me or contact me through jaiku if [...]
The below has since been superceded by Jaikungfu, my firefox extension for Jaiku.
A while ago I posted a suggestion to the Jaiku #jaiku channel on showing more of the presence titles when listing comments in order to provide more context. Currently, comments are displayed like this:
without script
The thing is that the listing actually has more [...]
People in South Carolina and Florida probably thought we were out of our minds when we replied “mountain biking” after being asked why we were in South Carolina or Florida. The thing is though, that there’s awesome trails down there! Sure, no real mountains or anything like that but still…
Karin on Canopy Trail in Santos, [...]
For the second year in a row, Karin and I are heading to south for an easter mountain biking vacation. We haven’t quite decided where to go but North Carolina and Pisgah are definitely on the map – the trails there are awesome, some of the best in the country! Being in the blue ridge/smoky [...]