njr 3.0

Work is progressing on roaming support for Mozilla bookmarks. This was one of the nicest features of Netscape 4.x, and a reason why 4.x continues to be used in many corporate environments. More than bookmarks, what I really want is synchronization of my keychain and PasswordWallet passwords.

OSes really need some kind of generic roaming profile/home directory/preference implementation which doesn't require a central server (e.g. Windows roaming profiles) or filesystem support (e.g. Coda).

4:35 PM | Radio
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One Jaguar feature you won't see much press about: Hawaiian language support, thanks to the tireless efforts of Keola Donaghy. I can't find any documentation on it, but the special characters are mapped to option-aeiou. There's supposedly another character to represent a glottal stop but I can't find it (perhaps because it looks like an opening quotation mark?)

While the Hawaiian characters are present in at least Lucida Grande and Hiragino Mincho Pro, I can't get a single Web browser to display them properly—I tried Chimera, Mozilla, OmniWeb and Internet Explorer.

10:48 PM | Radio
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Cretin Tracker 1.0: Keeps track of people you dislike. Just what the world needs.

3:20 PM | Radio
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Spring early access release. I'm having trouble expressing exactly what's so neat about this software (which I contributed to), but check it out…

2:36 PM | Radio
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Tried to get my OPML coffee mug working through the new IM-based notification system. No luck. Back to work, meeting in the morning…

1:04 AM | Radio
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