Let it be a lesson to me never to blindly follow a spec from Mozilla again, without first testing it in Internet Explorer, because of course Mozilla and Microsoft don’t implement a specification the same way, even if it is one as simple as open search. There was a bug with the Lulu.com search bar [...]

Can someone explain to me why TextEdit doesn’t automatically disregard rich text formating in HTML files? I wanted to make a few simple changes to some HTML files so I grabbed the closest and simplest tool at hand on OS X, TextEdit.  After a few minutes editing, I lost about half an hour wondering why [...]

Last night I had a free evening, so I opted to do a project I’ve been meaning to do for a while: write the code needed to put a Lulu.com option in the search bar you likely see in the upper right corner of your browser.  It operates just like the Google option that is [...]

I opted to join the OpenId crowd.  Do I really have any use for OpenId?  No, not really.  Now that I have it, I’ll see where I can use it and start trying to utilize it. Here’s the link to my OpenId page, for your perusal: http://openid.programmersparadox.com/mmzyk I signed up with myOpenId, but that might [...]

Picked up on the Internet history meme from Tim Bray. Here are my results: ~ markmzyk$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s \n”, a[i],i}}’ | sort -rn|head 67    ls 54    cd 31    erl 25    vi 22    pwd 13    exit 7    sudo 7    ./configure 6    cp 4    source Nothing exciting what so ever.  Hadn’t [...]