Rimu Atkinson

I've written a wee Greasemonkey script which detects when you're looking at a nzherald news article that has multiple pages, and redirects you to the version of the article which is a single longer page.

It's my first Greasemonkey script. I already know Javascript, so it was really easy especially with this fantastic free book on the subject.

Enough of my yammering. You can download it here.

It appears that New Zealand is becoming a bit more of a police state, with pretty much all internet activity able to be monitored. This feels a bit creepy, so in response I've taken the 10 minutes necessary to learn how to encrypt my email.

A weird problem was happening on one of my sites where IE 7 could print off a web page, but the first page of printing was blank - the content wasn't pushed off to the second page, the first page was simply empty and the second continued on from where the first would have ended.

The solution is easy when you know how: set up a print-only stylesheet that is for IE 7 only, by using the usual <!-- [if IE 7]> method, then in that stylesheet have

html *{

  float:none !important;

}

that's all! Thanks to Robby @ basetwo for tracking this down

For ages I put up with random hangs and where some or all of my panels would stop responding, and completely rebooting was the only solution (killall gnome-panels wouldn't unfreeze things either; all the hung panels disappear, but then nothing comes back in their place)...

I knew it had something to do with connecting to other computers by using gnome's "Connect to Server" feature, and since the problem only happened intermittently and listless googling didn't turn up anything I just lived with it.

I've got some kinda cool integration of my various online tools happening...

This blog publishes a RSS feed. That feed gets read by twitterfeed every hour and any new content gets posted to twitter. Facebook has a twitter app which monitors my twitter account, so that any new tweets get automatically posted as my current status.

Screencast is here

I'm really liking the taggable bookmarks, and it's great to see the way to add extensions has been improved.