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Microblogging

A few weeks ago, I was trying to think of interesting new ideas for a web application. I thought of having a site where people can publish content but it’d be more lightweight than a blog. More like having one-liners with no commenting.
But then I found out about Twitter, which is almost exactly what [...]

Posted 30 April 2007 † Peter § Programming ‡ Comments (0) °

T-Mobile To Go

My parents rarely use their cell phones. They used to have a $70 per month family plan which gave them 700 anytime minutes and unlimited nights and weekends but they only used, on average, about 100 minutes total per month.
I thought about having them get prepaid service but at the time, they all had some [...]

Posted 15 August 2006 † Peter § ‡ Comments (0) °

Where to get Emacs info

The EmacsWiki is a great resource for anything and everything related to Emacs:
http://www.emacswiki.org/

Posted 03 August 2006 † Peter § ‡ Comments (0) °

Spell checking in Firefox

Firefox 2.0 has a new feature that highlights words that it thinks are misspelled. It’s very useful when writing blog posts and trying not to look stupid.
If you don’t want to or can’t install the bleeding-edge Firefox 2.0, there’s a way to get this functionality into Firefox 1.5.x through an extension:
http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=4130

Posted 26 July 2006 † Peter § ‡ Comments (0) °