Anthology of Ideas

I installed Fluxbox a while back, and played around with it enough to decide that I do–kinda–like it and to start customizing enough that it would be usuable in the event I decided to switch. Well in an exactly duplicate of what pushed me to move from Windows to Linux, Gnome decided to crash for no real reason (the first time in years) and it wouldn’t start up, so I switched my default session to Fluxbox, and spent a day or so customizing it enough to make it perfect.

It hasn’t happened yet, but soon maybe, according to The Conference Board of Canada who recently released their summer US economy report. Although the full CBoC report can be had for the princely sum of $900, they did provide this summary: For years, U.S. consumer spending has created a ready market for goods produced in other countries. The Japanese economy and many European economies, which languished in the early part of this decade, have begun to post stronger growth.

If you haven’t heard of it, Tiddlywiki is a single file, off-line, single user “wiki” that you can use to store notes and information in an easy-to-retrieve format. I found it and decided I loved it…for about 6 hours. Now I’m looking at the source code and trying to understand it so I can rip out all the stuff I don’t like and replace it. Tiddlywiki doesn’t allow any sort of XHTML and requires all code to be done in textile.

I was having problems with outbound links sometimes being captured and sent to my own site, but the problem should now be fixed.

Is anyone using StartForce? It is an online desktop that is built in JavaScript, I played around with it a little bit and was impressed, but at 424KB compressed and 1305KB uncompressed it is definitely not for the lower end computer if you like to do other things on it. Update: Sorry, I forgot there was this thing called anchor text in links.

I’ve used Firefox for years mostly for the tabs. However, Firefox 2 removed the ability to “force new windows to open in tabs” and lately my number of “required” extensions have built up to the point that opening a new window takes 5-10 seconds. Which makes the occasional link that forces a new window very irritating. To force all new windows into tabs type about:config in your url bar and