Category Archives: Science and Engineering

Editor progress and lack thereof

So looking at the Kevin’s editor, I see that it uses Mozilla’s midas component. As my ignorance slides away, I discover to my horror that Midas and MSHTML both generate markup differently from each other and they both generate markup … Continue reading

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Building a better editor for Greymatter

So upon seeing Kevin Roth’s cross-platform WYSIWYG editor, I decided that would be a great thing to replace the JavaScript editor on Greymatter’s entry and revision forms with. I’ve been very busy and plan to be pretty busy through the … Continue reading

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More javascript trickery

Yesterday, while sifting through blogdex, I found a link to a javascript authored by Merek Prokop that fixes Internet Explorer’s lack of support for the ABBR tag. Looking for further I discover that the source that introduced this link into … Continue reading

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Making ABBR work in IE

The abbr tag doesn’t work in Internet Explorer for Windows, but, using client-side scripting, you can make it work. It occurred to me while reading Marek’s article, that a similar trick could be used to avoid messing up your pages … Continue reading

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Learning about SALT

So the other day, on one of my jobs, I get a sales pitch from a company telling me that they’ve built some development tools that work with stuff called SALT. I am skeptical, so I do some research and … Continue reading

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Network Admin to the Stars

Just got home a few hours ago after spending some time at my nephew’s house trying to get his playstations to work through the firewall of his router. It was an interesting learning experience but, I didn’t really arrive at … Continue reading

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Hofstadter's Title

Anyway, I’ve been busy this last week with work, mostly adding a bunch of content to Blinksoft and doing some network administration for a doctor’s office, so I haven’t really had time to post here. Work on the Greymatter update … Continue reading

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My own mod of Greymatter

Well, it’s a work in progress. After removing some bugs that people have found, plus the ones I already knew were there, I think it’s ready for prime time. Feel free to try it out (If you want to look … Continue reading

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The mysterious process 772

Learned a lot of computer stuff in the last 2 days. just installed a category sorter in Greymatter the day before yesterday. Still getting the mistakes out as of today. Learned that folks at the Greymatter support forum are planning … Continue reading

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Swarm intelligence, artificial trees, guilt-free stem cells

They’ve figured out to create pluripotent, stem cells from cheap, ordinary, blood cells. This is a breakthrough because these types of cells previously have only been found in fetal tissue, which is controversial, or bone marrow, which is difficult to … Continue reading

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