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Numero uno

I believe my blogging life is now complete. I am number one on Google for the word “longicaudatus”.
I am, as usual, speechless.
Also, I had no idea there were so many people searching for information about The Lucas Collection from Pottery Barn. Really, people, did you think to try potterybarn.com?

Google Desktop Search and using Firefox as your default browser

For the longest time Google Desktop Search always displayed my search results in Internet Explorer rather than Firefox, my default browser. Try as I might I could not make GDS understand that my default browser really is Firefox and not that blasted IE.
It turns out GDS looks for browser handling instructions in a dimly [...]

Firefox search plugin for the Seattle Public Library

When I found myself desirous of a Firefox search plugin that would let me query the Seattle Public Library (SPL) catalog from the toolbar, I was surprised to discover that I couldn’t find one. Alas, sometimes one is forced to do things for oneself. In an effort to promote literacy (and laziness), I offer my [...]

Show time

A number of projects at work have been hanging around for too long. It’s time to ship these suckers.
Nailed one today. At the office, our intranet site search has been sucking lately, in particular the full-text search of corporate resumes which are kept in both Word and PDF format. For another project, I’ve been boning [...]

Upcoming.org tag search bookmarklet

Upcoming.org, an online social event calendar, has added a bunch of new features, one of which is tagging. I quickly put together a bookmarklet for searching the tags on upcoming.org from any web page. This bookmarklet allows you to select a word (or words) on any web page as the criteria for a search of [...]

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