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[ May 9, 2008 ]
[ May 2, 2008 ]
Google Reader Favicon Disappearing
Back when I was using Firefox 2, this wasn’t such a big deal. I would just manually edit bookmarks.html and insert a base64-encoded data: URI that contained the favicon image. I did this twice and was quite satisfied with the result.
But now, I have upgraded to the beta of Firefox 3. It is so much better that I just can’t bring myself to use FF2 any longer. And with the upgrade, the bookmarks are now stored in a SQLite database. Sure, I could update the data in this database file, but I didn’t want to be constantly editing favicons just to get the desired result.
A bit of googling turned up a thread on the Google Reader Troubleshooting group covering this exact topic. Following the suggestions in that thread, I bookmarked the following URL, and my favicon now appears every time:
http://www.google.com/reader/view/#
It even seems to work with the https variation of the URL:
https://www.google.com/reader/view/#
The troubleshooting thread lists a few links that should work. Apparently, you can build your own as well. For example, the following URL appears to have a working favicon. It links directly to my “finance” label.
https://www.google.com/reader/view/user/-/label/finance#
It’s disappointing that you can’t simply bookmark reader.google.com or www.google.com/reader and get a favicon to show up in Firefox, but until somebody fixes things, this will do.
[ March 31, 2008 ]
links for 2008-03-31
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excellent tips on colorizing the output of less
[ March 14, 2008 ]
[ March 11, 2008 ]
links for 2008-03-11
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train horns for your car
[ March 10, 2008 ]
FIXED: John Resig’s blog
My online reading style dictates that I highlight text from time to time in order to keep track of where I’m at. John Resig’s blog was styled in a way that prevented me from highlighting the text in a very visible way. It seems that the background of the elements containing the text was set to transparent. So I finally just whipped out a bit of CSS and made a userstyle to override the background. Stylish is a godsend.
[ February 28, 2008 ]
links for 2008-02-28
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“an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions”
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“an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software”
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“an open-source initiative to support designers and artists to take the step from physical prototyping to actual product”
[ February 27, 2008 ]
links for 2008-02-27
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“brings the convenience of ‘open in new tab’ to Safari on your iPhone”
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