Micheas Herman

Enough is enough.

I was visiting a friends website and finally realized that I had to write a quick bookmarklet to make these sites readable.

Here is the Reformat Page bookmarklet.

To use this drag the Reformat Page link to your tool bar and any time you come across an unreadable page you can click on the bookmark and it will reformat the page.

The bookmarklet calls an external page http://www.micheas.net/bookmarklets/cleanpage.js that includes jQuery and  then at about line 32 the code that reformats the page starts .

Last weekend I went to BADCamp (I know. I know. A Joomla! user at BADCamp — heathen)

I picked up three really cool things.

• An introduction to Jquery. (this should become its own post.)
• YUI for setting up websites. (not standards compliant but a really fast way of making multicolumn tableless designs.
• Facebook and Drupal integration. &endash; the inspiration for this project.

When I started using Linux in 1996 I spent a lot of time looking for a web browser that I liked.

Netscape 4 worked. somewhat. but iframes required IE5 or mozilla. so I installed mozilla, found bugs that were fixed in cvs so I started to have a nightly cron job that pulled  cvs HEAD and built mozilla. Then I found galeon.

On Tuesday I booted Linux Mint on a computer that gets a fair amount of walk in traffic that uses the computer for surfing the web.

One thing that I had never seen before was compiz working with no user configuration and as the default window manager.

Windows XP had been servicable, but there have been issues about what is being downloaded on the machine.

Subversion generally does a good job of pulling updates from an upstream repository and merging in your local modifications, but sometimes subversion cannot handle the changes.

Subversions response to these eventualities has change dramatically in 1.5