http://www.brickswithoutclay.com Let my machine talk to you. Wed, 21 May 2008 14:22:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When working with Pages (and Word), it's hard to get the specifics of embedded images. If you want to know whether an image is a PNG or GIF or what, the interface doesn't make it easy, as pointed out on Betalogue. I couldn't register to leave a comment (*cough*OpenID*cough*) so I'm ... http://www.brickswithoutclay.com/archives/2008/05/getting-the-raw-images-in-pages-documents/ I was looking at domain names using Instant Domain Search, and I tried some domains consisting of words (or noises) that are commonly repeated over and over. Or rather, if you hear a repeated word or noise, chances are good that the word or noise is one of these words. ... http://www.brickswithoutclay.com/archives/2008/04/the-state-of-repeated-word-domain-names/ My grad program puts a lot of emphasis on groupwork. Our group projects usually involve emailing Word docs around. It's kind of annoying, since I use Pages, but I've gotten used to it. This past semester, though, I was in a group where everyone had Pages, and I was glad ... http://www.brickswithoutclay.com/archives/2007/12/pages-08-documents-are-incompatible-with-pages-08/ I was miserably unemployed for awhile after college, and took a drudge job at Starbucks to break the monotony. It turned out to be a really fulfilling experience, so I've got a soft spot for them. And now, Taylor Clark at Slate puts some data behind some arguments I've been ... http://www.brickswithoutclay.com/archives/2007/12/the-rising-caffeinated-tide-that-lifts-all-boats/ I was reminded tonight of something Jesse brought to my attention awhile ago: Newt Gingrich reviews lots of books on Amazon. They're mostly generic thrillers, mysteries and military novels. The sort of books where characters have strong-chinned names like "Clint Magnum". A yen for potboilers doesn't necessarily reflect badly on someone, ... http://www.brickswithoutclay.com/archives/2007/07/fiction/ No, I'm not buying an iPhone. Apple won't let any third-party applications onto the device. In other words, it's not hackable, and I'm not gonna drop $600 on a computer I can't mess around with. Apple's current line on third-party applications is, "if you want the iPhone to do something ... http://www.brickswithoutclay.com/archives/2007/07/no-iphone/ BarCamp Toronto Tech Week is happening right now. Yeah, I'm not the earliest out of the gate with the news, but I'm here, and you should too. There's still time to think of a session. Last year's BarCamp San Francisco was a bit of a transformative experience for me. I had ... http://www.brickswithoutclay.com/archives/2007/05/barcamp-toronto-tech-week-may-26th/ Before it falls through the cracks, I'm posting my slides from the CRM API session I led at DrupalCampToronto: pdf ppt keynote. The session was an introduction to the CRM API that some of the folks at Trellon have been working on. It's basically an interface layer that allows module writers ... http://www.brickswithoutclay.com/archives/2007/05/drupalcamp-notes-crm-api/ DrupalCampToronto finished up Saturday night, and if I'm not mistaken, it was a whopping success. It certainly went well in terms of raw numbers: 150+ registrations and 22 sessions (plus who-knows-how-many random chat sessions in unused rooms). And judging by the straw polls I took at my sessions, there was ... http://www.brickswithoutclay.com/archives/2007/05/drupalcamp-notes-drupal-debugging-swap-meet/ A few weeks ago, I spent a long long time building a feature in Drupal that allows users to drag and drop files from a "media bin" block into a TinyMCE rich-text editor. Users click on a thumbnail of an image, for example, drag and drop into the editor, and ... http://www.brickswithoutclay.com/archives/2007/04/quicktime-harsh/