phil ringnalda

Simulating the SXSW experience

Nice Titles in GreaseMonkey: just what I wanted from the start. I turned mine off here, so if you want them you’ll need to ‘monkey them back.

A WordPress plugin to convert named entities to numeric character references. Didn’t someone need exactly that?

Blogspot is hurting America. I glanced at the blo.gs recently updated on my way to something else today, and noticed a Blogspot-hosted blog that had pinged with a keyword-stuffed query string, so they don’t even have to script creation of a new site for each bit of targeting.

pb’s podcasting aha moment? Being able to subscribe to an NPR podcast. When Jim Kloss warned you not to try to imitate public radio because you can’t beat them at their own game? He’s often right that way.

Designed For Good, Used For Evil: not only is Chris Pederick’s Web Developer toolbar a potential inducer of copyright infringement, now his User Agent Switcher is the favored tool of paid-for-popups defrauders.

WordPress Theme preview plugin. WordPress Preview theme plugin. Hmm. Active, aren’t they?

Enabling extension updates: the update.rdf companion to How to create Firefox extensions.

Fixing Paul Graham’s Footnotes: Simon Willison’s textbook example of how to light a Greasemonkey rather than curse the darkness.

Car Drivers invade UK Technology Magazine: has El Reg gone completely to hell, or is it just every single article I run across, that’s flat out wrong?