Wow this firefox extension rulez! I can edit the html right in a window. Then I click Apply … and there you go. Let’s see what else I can do:
I can make lists:
I can even insert tables:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Wow | This | Totally | Rocks! |
Today, I decided to try it. I went to buy a PSP at Fry’s (to make sure I could return it if I screwed up :-)) and it worked!
Ok. I usually don’t advertise for products (at least not for free) BUT I cannot not mention that I bought the best thing ever for Christmas. It’s called the Logitech® Harmony® 880 Advanced Universal Remote. Not only it performs as advertised but the user experience was amazing! This remote allows me to control my Tivo/Xbox/DVD/TV/Receiver/Cable box with 1 single remote control! The amazing thing is that it is capable of not only sending IR commands in a row for a given ‘activity’ but it also knows how to recover if a device was not in the ‘right’ initial state. At any time, if it doesn’t work, you can press the ‘Help’ button and it asks you what is wrong and tries to fix it in sequence. For example, it asks you if the TV is on. You answer No, it turns it on. It asks you if it’s on the correct input. No .. fixed. It’s SO cool. And setting it up took only 10 minutes. You go on their website, you say what hardware you have and how it is connected (what TV input and what Receiver channel) and voila. The most impressive stuff was that it was not working properly at first. Every time I would switch activity (Tivo to DVD), it would switch also the TV inputs (although it shouldn’t) as if it thought the TV was not on the right input already. I went back to the site, found some ‘advanced’ settings and was able to found out that my remote thought the TV had more inputs than it really had. I was able to configure it exactly with the right number of inputs and the problem got fixed in 5 minutes! Now that’s a perfect user experience! Now I can turn on and off my entire system with 1 single remote and 1 single button! No more pressing TV off button + Receiver Off button… One word Logitech (Harmony): Bravo!
As described in a previous post, I had to find a new name for Pluto. However, Plutino didn’t quite do it for me so I decided to go with Platinum instead. In the process, I finally convinced myself to switch to subversion for my source control and managed (by myself!) to recompile the linux package and install it on my dreamhost machine. Now not only it’s faster than when it was being hosted on my home PC running a CVS server with a DynDns dynamic IP address, but I don’t have to worry about losing data as it’s now being backed up automatically!
My book buying frenzy never ending, I am now learning the bash Shell.
Looks like Rhapsody 3.1 blogging with Blogger still works however the formatting is strange. The rhaplink url contains the “ref=blog” param twice and the href is missing a CR to put the first track description of the playlist on the next line… Another (minor) bug to fix I guess.
On the flip side, Rhapsody blogging for Typepad still works as you can see here (although the CR at the end of each track entry has not been figured out). Another bug to fix …