Category Archives: English

Intranet flashcards for learning names and faces of co-workers

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 [...]

Another backpacking trip in the north of Sweden

This post was actually meant to go out before we headed out but I just didn’t have time to publish it. Too much time spent weighing the options in terms of equipment (pun intended, see below :)
As we got hooked on fjällen last year, Karin and I early on decided to go backpacking in the [...]

Ubiquity search for Bloggy.se

For people who have installed Ubiquity from Mozilla Labs, here’s a user script that enables you to quickly search for words in Bloggy:
makeSearchCommand({
name: “Bloggy”,
url: “http://bloggy.se/search/{QUERY}”,
icon: “http://bloggy.se/favicon.ico”,
description: “Searches Bloggy for…”,
preview: function(pblock, directObject) {
var searchTerm = directObject.text;
var pTemplate = [...]

Search words in Wordnik from Ubiquity

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 [...]

Ubiquity code for Jaiku search through Jaikungfu

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: [...]

Going backpacking in the north of Sweden

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 [...]

Jaikungfu: A firefox extension for Jaiku

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 [...]

Jaiku Autolinking (Greasemonkey script)

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 [...]

More context for Jaiku comments (Greasemonkey script)

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 [...]