December 2007
25 posts
Undo Discard
Undo Discard feature in GMail rocks. Just cliked Discard button occasionally but this feature saved me.
Соседи
Нам с Колюней только что стучали в батарею. Нервные какие-то…
Хто вядзе блогі на intetics :)
Па Вашым запыце - “site:blogs.intetics.com -Yarantsau” - ня знойдзена ніводнага дакумэнта.
Christmas present from abroad
Heh. One of my clients called JM hit me today with great news that he’s sending me a Xmas present :) Wooo-Hoooo! Can’t wait to see what’s inside. Let’s hope our customs don’t steal it on the way to my mailbox. JM has been told already by Fedex I will have to pay shipping tax. He wanted to pay it himself but they wouldn’t allow to do that… Anyway I’m...
"true", an approaching guy
“I saw true at the hotel buffet tables today. I cannot stand that guy. His stance is way too wide. And you’ve never met anyone who planted his feet so hard in the ground. He wears this corny necklace made out of shells. His face exudes this brash confidence. (You can tell he’s exerting all of his restraint just to keep from bursting into Neo flight.)” — Why humorously explains...
Про privacy
Стоим с yoz’ом в очереди в аптеку. Обычная такая совковая аптека возле работы. Аптекарша - матёрая мадам предпенсионного возраста. В этот день все покупатели почему-то как один просили посоветовать что-нибудь подешевле. Она напрягалась и строго так говорила: “Все лекартсва на витрине. Посмотрите там, не задерживайте других покупателей!” Перед нами стоит молодая девушка. Когда...
idea: Pass the ball
We are currently using Project Path for most communication with clients. Sometimes client posts a question requiring my response but I lose track of that question and it remains unanswered. Until it is 24 hours to launch and we realize we missed something because of that unanswered question. It would be quite useful if each conversation had a “tennis ball” inside it. Imagine: client...
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Don't give away your email address
Use PookMail instead. This web service allows you to receive an email into a bogus inbox without ever needing to register. Just make up any @poolmail.com address you like, give it to the crappy web site that you need to send you something and then log in to your Pook Mail inbox in a few seconds. There is no privacy at all: anyone can read the message you just received. So receive anything...
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idea: Cartoon-like comment feed
All comments in blogs, forums, articles are textual these days. Isn’t it so booooooooring? Animated comments will save the planet. Just imagine: each comment is a 3-second long frame in a 100x200 box where userpic has a callout box coming out of his mouth and his comment is displayed in this callout box. Each new comment is a new 3-second frame of this animated sequence. In the end, for a...
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Idea: comment an arbitrary text block of a post
Why do I have to copy a chunk of text from the post and embrace it in some weird HTML tags to make it appear as quoted text? Instead I would like to be able to highlight a phrase or two in the post, click “Comment this block” and add a comment JUST FOR THIS block of text. This reminds a kind of “Comment” feature in MS Word, but it should look less ugly.
“Вот однажды она одела его и поставила на ножки около кровати. Но Петя вдруг...”
– М.Зощенко
Беларусь vs Белоруссия →
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Passclicks vs passwords →
What is passclicks? Passclicks is a new way to login to websites without users having to remember thir old style textual password.
*zillas
A random observation: you are not going to earn a penny on anything that has “Zilla” in its name. It’s probably something open source and created by geeks at nights.
У Іране «абраза маральнасьці» караецца сьмерцю →
Ня верыцца, што такое дагэтуль магчыма: у Іране жанчыну кінулі ў вязьніцу і зьбілі да сьмерці толькі за тое, што яна сядзела ў грамадзкім парку з каханым.
5 спосабаў страціць працу
Тыдзень таму мне давялося трапіць у адно дзяржаўнае прадпрыемства, каб правярнуць адную справу. Гэта быў мегаправайдэр Белтэлекам, а справа была такой, што я падключаўся да інтэрнэту. Так-так, гэта менавіта Бай-Флай, бо ў нашай глухой вёсачцы альтэрнатываў няма. Дарэчы іхны рэкламны ролік і песенька з яго мне падаюцца аднымі з лепшых на беларускім ТБ. У тым пакойчыку куда мяне накіравалі, сядзелі...
Пра раскладкі
У мяне часова няма рускай раскладкі, таму буду пісаць па-беларуску.
Did you know that
when you click an URL in some application and it launches Firefox, then Firefox is launched as a child of that application process. So my understanding is it inherits environment variables and other stuff. I wonder there might be exploits/abuses using this trick.
jQuery JavaScript framework →
I bet it’s worth a try so you don’t have to code JS manually.
The best way to memorize passwords
Don’t keep’em in your head, use Password Safe. This is an open source tool where you keep a secure database of your passwords (some call this password vault). You put all your passwords into Password Safe, and should you need to recall one of them you just double click that entry and your password is copied to the clipboard. It also has a secure export feature so you can migrate...