Category: hacks
Apr
27
*(Short version: prolly not.)*
I ride the PATH -- a subway that goes underneath the Hudson river from NJ to NYC -- almost daily to get to work at NYU. Yesterday, a curious thing happened that, at first, made me angry. Later, I realized I might have… more »
Mar
23
*(This post is mostly for me, as I end up doing things like this infrequently and tend to forget how to do it.)*
I recently found myself with a [CSV file](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values) that looked like so:
First,Last,Aff… more »
Jun
27
Today I was reminded of a behavior I'm not a big fan of in FireFox: foregrounding of cookie allow/deny dialog windows when I click on a link in another application.
Here's what happened, and possibly how you can reproduce it:
1. First, I run firef… more »
Dec
13
Apologies for the silence here... I've been busy and mostly posting short thoughts and such [on Twitter](http://twitter.com/joebeone).
The comment spammers seem to love a few of my posts... and moderating all the comment spam is a bit of a pain. Fra… more »
Sep
28
Permalinks for California Bills?
system, elections, hacks, news, wtf?, chilling effects, research, policy, usability, legalI've worked with California legislation and law for almost a decade, and one consistently frustrating thing is that it seems impossible to link to bills.
For example, Gov. Schwarzenegger signed SB 1404 yesterday, which is a landmark bill to require v… more »
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