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"Hack life - sure, but how?"

Since there is no undo-button, hacking in real life can be a lot more dangerous and risky. Nevertheless I've found a great website which shows a lot of real life hacks, of which most are quite safe to try ;)

This website is probably the most "geeky-but-not-computer-fetish" site I've ever visited. A best-of topics of the past few days make Your mouth water:

• Crack a Master Combination Padlock
• Remote Control Your Computer with Your iPhone
• Are You Prepared for a Hard Drive Crash?
• Use Aluminum Foil to Sharpen Scissors
• Turn a $5 Steak into a $50 Steak
• Top 100 Productivity-Enhancing Foods
• Tips for Killer Presentations in front of a crowd
• Quickly Track Flights with Google Search and Earth Integration
• Seventeen Uses for Tennis Balls
• Buy a Car Without Getting Screwed
• Clean Your Home in 19 Minutes
• Limit Yourself to the Essentials with Haiku Productivity

        21.Sep.2007, 6:50 :: life outside computers :: Permalink :: Comments (0)

If You ever had to work with cascading style-sheets (CSS) which you didn't write entirely on Your own or with a CSS framework (such as YAML), then You probably asked yourself the same question as I did some days ago:
"Which classes are really used - and which could I delete without harm?"

An answer to this question I hoped to find on GoSquared.com, but the result was not really satisfying. The script had several bugs, making it nearly useless for me:

• Only the first class / id in the css definition is taken into account
• Multiple class names in the same class attribute were not recognised (resulting in "false positives")
• Identical class / id will not report even if unused

But as it was pretty close to what I needed, I went ahead, corrected these bugs and implemented some improvements on my own:

• Output prefixed with . respectively # to distinguish classes and id's
• Support for multiple HTML / CSS pages (as in larger projects) added, use a comma-separated list as page parameter
• Added an optional parameter "visual" which will make the script print the evaluated CSS and HTML to the browser window

As for a future version, one could integrate support for link type css definition <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"/> and probably its quite easy now to evaluate also inline CSS definitions. But as I won't use this functionality, I end the development here. Nevertheless everyone feel free to contribute!

        20.Sep.2007, 9:01 :: programming :: Permalink :: Comments (0)

My film recommandation for today: Helvetica

Yes, it's a font. But it's also a film. A film I definitely gotta watch. About a font which has formed the world as we know it today ;)

        19.Sep.2007, 8:48 :: people and cultures :: Permalink :: Comments (0)

Doctor Snuggles is one of the strangest cartoons I've watched when I was younger. It is an interesting mix of science-fiction (space travelling, high-tech gadgets), animism (the duck-umbrella, the watch), fairy-tale (talking animals) and educational movie (pointing out the water-pollution).

I'm quite happy I found some episodes on YouTube recently, because haven't seen it on TV for years. Anyway I don't watch TV anymore these days...

If you've watched it too when you were younger, then I'm sure this will give you a pleasant flashback. Otherwise I'm not sure if you nevertheless can connect as a grown-up. On the other hand, I just found that the Douglas Adams is the Author of the cartoons - what explains quite a bit! So if You've like the THHGTTG, You gotta see this.

Here are the episodes I've found:

• The Remarkable Fidgety River, II, III, IV, V
• The Sensational Balloon Race, II, III, IV, V
• Intro (auf Deutsch)

Für alle Deutschsprachigen, als interessante Info am Rande: Doctor Schnäggels (so die korrekte Aussprache in dem deutschen Intro) heisst übersetzt "Kuscheldoktor"!

        18.Sep.2007, 19:57 :: unsorted :: Permalink :: Comments (0)

As of today, this blog is powered by MT4. You feel like there was not much of a change? Well, then the guys over at Six apart and me did good work - the update process was pretty hassle free. I will not go into a big refactoring now, but somewhere in the future I intend to make use of MT4's new templating system.

• A feature I really apreciate: Preview the entry directly in your blog. This saves me from publishing half finished blog entries, finally!
• Another handy feature: MT supports now tags, so I have the choice whether I will make use of them or not.
• A not so cool thing: my anti spam comments filter (jaja) does not filter anymore... hopefully there will be an updated version of the plugin soon!

        9.Sep.2007, 21:16 :: web world :: Permalink :: Comments (3)

"faire-part" heisst die Geburtsanzeige auf französisch -- wortwörtlich übersetzt "teilhaben lassen".

 

   

Die Geburtsanzeige und weitere Fotos von dem süssen kleinen Sauger sind in der Galerie zu finden! (Man ist schliesslich nirgends sicher vor diesen Paparazzi, aber vor mir erst recht nicht ;)

        6.Sep.2007, 22:51 :: herzvoll :: Permalink :: Comments (0)