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“It’s all ungreek to me”

Monday, November 22nd, 2004

Ungreek is a tool to generate text filler alternatives to the often used lorem ipsum. Of course, if you want more control (like even more source texts — including arbitrary ones), then there’s the always-fun DadaDodo.
All of the above is pretty useful, especially when needing filler for mockups, website templates, or anywhere else you [...]

#photography, irc.freenode.net

Monday, November 22nd, 2004

This post is just a little plug for #photography, the photography channel on irc.freenode.net.
Join us using your favorite IRC client to discuss anything and everything related to photography (film and digital, dslr and point & shoot, etc.).
If you don’t know much about IRC (Internet Relay Chat) but want to chat about photography, check out [...]

Comment spam

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004

I had way too much comment spam, so I added a bunch of comment plugins to defeat the spam. They all seemed to work for a while, although I thought there may have been a drop in comments, but just shrugged it off to an overactive imagination.
Unfortunately, one of them (as I [...]

New Evolution website!

Thursday, November 11th, 2004

I have updated the Evolution website. For those of you reading this who don’t know, Evolution is a groupware client, meaning that it provides mail, addressbook, and calendaring functionality.
See the old versus the new below:

It uses simple, structural HTML 4.01 w/ a massive helping of CSS for both style and layout.
Why HTML [...]

Firefox 1.0!

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004

Firefox is now 1.0!
* There’s a new start page over at Google.
* I’ve updated the Firefox Industrial theme to 1.0.6.

Industrial for Firefox: 1.0.4 1.0.5

Friday, November 5th, 2004

This version of Industrial for Firefox should work much better with the latest version of Firefox. It should hopefully fix problems with the previous version of Firefox and it has a few new little features as well.
Please note that you must be running one of the latest builds for this to work properly. [...]

Industrial for Firefox update: version 1.02 1.03!

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004

Version 1.02 1.03 of Industrial for Firefox is now available!

There have been a ton of changes; here are a few recent ones:
* Lots of icon changes
* Updated to work with a more recent Firefox build
* Changed close icon to use GNOME style instead of GIMP style “x”
* Better RSS/Atom feed icon
* More accurate GNOME-like disabled [...]