Category Archives: English

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The below has since been superseded by Jaikungfu, my firefox extension for Jaiku.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 [...]

Twitter Book Cover

Forthcoming?

No doubt, a river otter would be the perfect animal for the cover of a book on twitter in the O’Reilly series. Just look at that little hand, perfect for texting.

Back from the annual spring mountain biking road trip

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, [...]

Gone fishing

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 [...]