I double-click things on web pages. Not to “launch” anything or in any way make something happen, it’s just a nervous habit. Except on the NYT site. They’ve seen fit to cause a dictionary window to open whenever I double-click on a word. It annoys the hell outta me. Thanks to Greasemonkey I can continue to read the Times without wanting to kill anyone (mostly.). Install this Greasemonkey script and all will be well again.

I typically scan Ryan Stewart’s blog for new information on RIAs and Adobe stuff, but then ignore much of the knee-jerk fawning over anything remotely RIA related. His recent post, Offline is a Small Part of the Apollo Value is spot on however. All of the latest hoo-ha about taking web apps offline has gotten things backwards. What many of us will be building instead of web apps we can use offline is creating desktop apps (with things like Apollo) using all of the fabulous web technologies we already know, then letting them seamlessly take advantage of online access.

A morbid, but favorite site of mine is Corpus Obscurum: “Remembering those whose accomplishments vastly exceeded their fame.” Today for example Developer of the flavor coating for Cap’n Crunch cereal dead at 79. Great stuff.

Well, if you’re going to point it out on your blog, I get to disagree. It’s a small thing, but they’re wrong this time

Running the numbers is a series of images, each of which portrays a specific quantity of something – a *large* quantity. For example, this image represents 106,000 aluminum cans – the number used in the US every thirty seconds.

And speaking of widgets, the new version of the iStat Nano widget is quite nice.

Many of us use Netvibes or Dashboard widgets for viewing weather conditions and forecasts. If you don’t, now there’s Simpleweather.com. Lightest, fastest weather page I’ve ever used.

I’m not sure I should be saying this aloud, but I weigh 188.6 pounds and that’s just way too much. How hard could it be to lose 8 pounds in as many weeks? Starting now.

Finally, the new joecartoon.com has launched. All new design, Rails CMS, custom Flash media player, videos, games and more. Joe’s stuff has been cracking me up since he was still doing his thing in our building a number of years ago. It was a pleasure to be involved with the development of the new site. This is probably the highest-traffic site I’ve been involved in deploying. In this case, nearly everything is page-cached which helps a great deal.

Journler is a great app for collecting all sorts of things. I only use if for things I write myself (e.g my journal). Now that I’m back on WordPress for the blog I can also write and post blog entries from within Journler, which is nice.

So I moved back to WordPress, whatuvit? I have enough Rails apps to keep running without having to worry about my blog. Besides, there’s no question that the WordPress community is about as big as they get. Now I can post with MarsEdit, interact with Twitter and change themes every 6 hours and never run out of new ones. Besides, you’re all using RSS anyway.

They're only small battles, but damn it would be nice to win one now and then. # So T.M. finally publishes a feed and no one tells me. http://www.tmcamp.com/ # Refactoring Wiki content and *loving* it. # Labeling the thousand A/C adapters scattered around my house # Adding database indexes # To office for a few # I can't stop adding content to the new wiki.