Tuesday, August 20, 2002

10:11:24 PM   Clicking the middle button scroll wheel (Control) and left click on a link pulls up the page on the opposite monitor which has a browser open on it also.  This leads to a news aggregator Radio window on one monitor and the articles on the left monitor,  all controled with one mouse.  You're not running two monitors ? fix this.  You can buy this video card on Ebay for nothing and you are bound to have another monitor laying around somewhere.  Heck, I'm going to be running three very soon.

10:05:12 PM   From Scott's And I guess I'm not the Only One Bothered by Font Sizes:. [via The FuzzyBlog!] "Here's a tip that a reader gave me: CTRL+Mouse Wheel scrolling increases or decreases the size.  Very useful.  I'd seen the effect before but never knew what triggered it." And further, with my Logitech Trackman Marble which has 3 buttons, one of which is the scroll wheel, you define the scroll wheel to be the control key and you can click and scroll your text sizes with one finger.

9:54:15 PM   Jesus Garcia for Bakersfield School Board. [Scripting News]

9:44:28 PM   Hey it looks like this guy finally made a wise decision - Iraq Says Palestinian Terrorist Killed Himself. Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister confirmed today that Abu Nidal, a Palestinian radical, had died by his own hand. By Serge Schmemann. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

9:41:30 PM   More friends on the bench :-(  Cingular Cuts Up to 3,000 Jobs.  By Reuters. [via New York Times: Technology]

9:31:50 PM   Something kool from today's bloggin' session !  As Dave might say, an aha. Below, I linked to the article which got me to customize the IE6 toolbar to include the Size button which eases changes in the text size which are fantastic now that a lot of bloggers are fixing them to allow us to make changes.  I knew I could do this but hadn't made changes here more than like once.   Here's where it gets better. If you are using the WYSISYG editor in Radio to blog then go back and pick up the cut copy and paste buttons also.  These are so fantastic for Radio I just can't believe it.  The context sensitive right (as in not left) click never quite covers the right (as in not wrong) options and I always trudges up to many click Edit|Cut or Edit|Paste.   Now as I cut down on the size of Scott's post from the aggregator below I hit these nice big buttons on the tool bar and away we go.  Nice.

9:23:20 PM   'Bout time - Former Enron Executive to Plead Guilty. By Reuters. [via New York Times: NYT HomePage]

9:22:14 PM      Something Unexpected: Scotts Radio. [via The FuzzyBlog!]

9:13:20 PM   Hmmmm...Bill is the Catholic church and we are doing what we know is good and right.  This makes me smile and want to out and write software.

9:10:58 PM   You have to go for the picture and if you don't get it ask and we'll dig up the original Catholic version - Think of the penguins :-(. [ via The FuzzyBlog!]

9:01:29 PM   Tara Sue Grubb has her own weblog now. Progress. [Scripting News]

8:55:39 PM   This is a good quick read, he's right on here  -  Ernie the Attorney is trying to figure out what we're talking about. "..... to me the current patent law and copyright law system is clearly out of whack." [via Scripting News]

8:43:59 PM   Ever want to think real hard about how to go after spam ?- A Plan for Spam [via Bitworking thru Dave]

8:24:40 PM   I have a recurring dream.  I am in college.  A person that I have seen in a couple of my classes, comes up to me and asks me if I want the "everything" drive.  I ask, what is the "everything" drive?  He whispers that it has every book, song, newspaper, magazine, and movie that has ever been published.   Everything is categorized and first quality.  It even includes a clone of Google and some new search techniques that are even more powerful.  Incredulous, I ask what the catch is.  He says, nothing,  just knowledge.  I then ask how much it will cost.  He says nothing, just the time it takes to transfer it and a promise to give it to two other people. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] // The highlighting is mine, John nails the rest.

8:19:00 PM   Oh man this is great, RIAA should just go away, they give the word :record" a bad name - IWT Bans RIAA From Accessing Its Network [via Daypop Top 40]

8:16:39 PM   More font size info, best tidbit here is to turn on the IE toolbar button for text size - Let Users Control Font Size [via Daypop Top 40]