I've struggled a long time with trying to come up with the perfect solution for tracking my Things To Do. For the last several months I've tried to use a physical notepad and small pen in my back pocket, but that's literally turning into a pain in the ass. Here are my requirements for a digital system:

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§521 · February 16, 2009 · Google, Life, Technology · 3 comments · Tags: , ,


I'm not a big fan of Eclipse from a UI perspective, but I do acknowledge that it's pervasive in the industry and some big projects are using it extensively. Plus it's better than 'vi' and the command-line. I guess 😉 Anyway, I'm sure I'll get used to it. Here's a really simple tip on using Eclipse with Android : Read the rest of this entry ...

§520 · February 2, 2009 · Google, Software, Technology, Tips · 2 comments · Tags: ,


So having gone through my 1000+ unread feed items, emails, blog comments and sundries, here's what I think I missed while on our pilgrimage to worship a mouse in the south. Feel free to clue me in further in the comments below. Oh, and the vacation was fantastic, fwiw, though I did miss internet access that wasn't filtered through the foggy and tiny lens of WML. I gots to get me one of them new-fangled phones that can browse the real web real soon now. Read the rest of this entry ...

§519 · January 30, 2009 · Google, Microsoft, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 6 comments · Tags: , , , , ,


I'm delightfully surprised at how much attention Mozilla is apparently giving SVG. First they've hired jwatt to work full-time on SVG. Now it looks like some students also have an interest in advancing the SVG implementation within Mozilla. Great!

I don't have the experience of a seasoned Mozilla hacker (only a couple patches years ago), but I do know that SMIL, SVG Fonts, SVG in CSS and SVG text-specific edge cases could use some work from a SVG 1.1 perspective. Hopefully they get in contact with jwatt, rlongson, roc, dholbert and birtles and get some ideas rolling...

§518 · January 20, 2009 · Firefox, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 4 comments · Tags: , ,


Before we head out for vacation here, I decided to update my SVG Support Tables for a variety of implementations:

§517 · January 18, 2009 · Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 11 comments · Tags: ,