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Google Likes VI

I know I mostly talk about weaving but I have been busy and just noticed this.
Google has an experimental search that lets you use keyboard short cuts to navigate.

Key
Action

J
Selects the next result.

K
Selects the previous result.

O
Opens the selected result.

<Enter>
Opens the selected result.

/
Puts the cursor in the search box.

<Esc>
Removes the cursor from the search box.

These are they […]

I recently found a new photo editing tool Picnik.
This tool is exactly what most people what/need for editing their photos. It will let you adjust the exposure and color , crop and resize your photo. The tool has an automatic options as well as a few sliders that give you some control while keeping it […]

The Reasons I Weave

I am tech geek (a programmer). The people I work with ask me why do you weave?
Well, when you work with computers there are days when you come home and HATE i mean HATE them. The last 2 days have been that way. Last night as I was leaving our Colo the place we keep […]

Plugin Update

So I have written 2 Wordpress Plugins.

Technorati Favorites Plugin
My Technorati Tag Cloud

I have just updated both of them to be widgets that work with Wordpress Widgets. You can download them here

Technorati Favorites Plugin
My Technorati Tag Cloud

To install them just unzip put the files in your Wordpress plugin directory and enable them. Then go to your  […]

PHP Get text

I have been using gettext in PHP and this is what I found out.

First add the < ?=gettext("string")?> to your php
Then “find . -type f | grep -v CVS | xargs xgettext -L PHP”
vi messages.po
replace charset with “UTF-8″
do translations
msgfmt messages.po

Then your done. I have not gotten to adding or merging text

Wow an Evil Contest

Wow I knew that they had programming contests but I did not know that they has Evil Programming Contests
Wow!!!!

Update: For everyone that does not have wordpress or is having trouble Technorati has released a Blog Top Tags Widget. Just follow their directions and you can have your tags from them.
Update: There is an update to this plugin that works with wordpress 2.1 here
I have been working on a new and cool Technorati wordpress […]

What I want for X-Mas

I Have found my next X-Mas gift look at this.
Ohh yea now that’s good stuff.
and I love the moto

//time commenting could be time coding

Meetings are BAD for you

I have been saying this for years but now there is proof that Meetings are bad for you.
Some scientists over at University of Minnesota have done research on the effects of meeting on a workers mood.
They found out:

The more meetings one has to attend, the greater the negative effects; and
The more time one spends […]

Vi Rocks

Ok so maybe I am crazy but saw this and I loved it.
I am a VI geek. I Love VI well vim to be exact. I have been using vi/vim for over 10 years and I have a hard time using any other editor. The command in VI to delete a line is “dd” so […]

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