Archive for August, 2008

Idea: Visualize wikipedia trails

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

A browser extension that watches you surf through Wikipedia, and then generates a pretty graph with some kind of representation for how long you spent on each page.
On the other hand, maybe not, because I’m not sure I really want to know where that time just went. It would be a pretty branching [...]

Soft word wrap in Emacs

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

I was editing some text with emacs and finally got fed up with the choice between “auto-fill-mode” (spray hard newlines into my file to word-wrap) and “suck” (no word-wrap, long lines). Fortunately for me, not only is there a minor mode to implement this feature, but GNU Emacs 22 (the version I was using) [...]

Lightroom 2

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

It’s a significant upgrade from Lightroom 1. Lightroom 1 didn’t make it past “fool around with it a bit” for me because it fell over when I fed it my entire photo tree.
The 30 day trial is key — there’s almost no chance I would have picked LR v2 up without being able to [...]