http://blog.rfquerin.org Aggregating knowledge for the common man. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:55:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Back on our May long weekend, we decided to opt for conservative parenting and didn't take our daughter to see the fireworks (too late and too little sleep we figured), but we made the promise that she'd definitely get to see them on Canada Day. So last night we went. While ... http://blog.rfquerin.org/2008/07/02/canada-day-fireworks/ I like Firefox, I really do. Version 3 has a lot of cool features, and runs very stable on both my XP system at work and my Ubuntu system at home. But... Firefox3 is a huge memory hog. I regularly see 140+ MB of memory being used by FF on both my ... http://blog.rfquerin.org/2008/07/01/firefox-3-is-a-lovely-stable-memory-pig/ I've just finished and uploaded Episode 064. This screencast demonstrates the use of Inkscape's Object->Clip->Set function for some creative bitmap masking. Head over there to watch or download the episode and check out any of the other 63 episodes we've done so far. Happy Canada Day tomorrow everybody! :) http://blog.rfquerin.org/2008/06/30/episode-064-bitmap-masking/ If you're interested in a super-slick way to browse images (on Flickr, Google Image Search, Picasa, Facebook or any of almost 20 different sites), and you're using Firefox (Windows/Mac), Safari or even IE, then check out Piclens. On my XP machine at work I've installed the Piclens add-on for FF3 (there's ... http://blog.rfquerin.org/2008/06/25/blown-away-by-the-piclens-ff-add-on-now-wheres-the-linux-version/ I've been meaning to add a 'related posts' plugin to my theme for quite a while now. Adding the plugin was dead easy. However getting it to look decent on my blog template was an exercise in first class, grade A, CSS butchery. Look away Dan Cederholm.. Bulletproof CSS this ... http://blog.rfquerin.org/2008/06/24/ill-trade-ya-24-div-elements-and-a-smallish-png-file-for-some-related-posts/ As some of you might know, I run a rather old-ish system. It's a 3GHz P4 with 1GB of RAM and on-board Intel graphics. It ain't no Ferrari, but it gets me around. For the past couple of weeks I've been running Compiz on Hardy mostly because I wanted to use ... http://blog.rfquerin.org/2008/06/19/in-search-of-xfce-and-metacity-has-a-compositor/ A week or so ago, I espoused the virtues of Task, a great little command line application that has replaced the venerable todo.txt system for managing my projects and To-Do list at work. In that post, I described how to build Task within Cygwin for those of us who use ... http://blog.rfquerin.org/2008/06/17/building-debian-packages-for-task/ I know the prevailing trend is to get organized and de-clutter. But sometimes being a bit of a pack-rat can pay off in enjoyment later on. Case in point, a copy of the 1978 Carguide magazine circulating through our office. This was a Canadian Auto buyers guide that listed specs ... http://blog.rfquerin.org/2008/06/12/thank-you-pack-rats/ A little less than three months ago, I posted about how I won the coveted Finger of God prize from the boys over at Lugradio. It finally arrived. Now I'm not big on unboxing videos. By and large I think they're silly, and pointless. But of course, having very little shame, ... http://blog.rfquerin.org/2008/06/11/your-finger-of-god-has-finally-arrived/ A faithful user of the todo.txt system of command line based todo list management for about a year now, I have recently fallen in love with a new command line based todo list application called simply Task, which was written by Paul Beckingham. He's got a great screencast demo of ... http://blog.rfquerin.org/2008/06/06/task-101-an-attempt-at-a-cygwin-build-how-to/