Robert Accettura's
Fun With Wordage

I’m working on a secret extension for the Extend Firefox contest. A bit simpler than other stuff I’ve done, but still pretty cool. Nothing fancy, just an interesting twist as usual.

I’ll release it here in a few days. It’s starting to be pretty stable.

I decided to release mozPod 0.1 as a late Christmas Gift. This is of course a 0.1 release (beta quality at best), so of course feedback is desired. I’m positive bugs remain, and I’m positive there are some larger bugs still in that code. Testing is needed to locate them. So if you download, make sure to come back here and let me know how it goes for you. I know there is no unicode support just yet, and the Thunderbird UI may get a little slugish during sync (though once sync is done it should go back to normal).

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MozPod

For those who don’t know, mozPod is a Mozilla Thunderbird extension to allow for easy transfer of the users address book to the popular Apple iPod for mobile use. The extension has a minimal UI and is designed to be as automatic as possible.

Thanks

Special thanks to David Bienvenu (who hopefully will get a blog sooner than later ), and Boris Zbarsky for their help, and everyone who volunteered and participated in testing.

I’ve made some changes to how RSS feeds around here. First and foremost we use the Firefox Feed Icon in hopes of pushing it as a standard. Secondly all links in RSS feeds should now be absolute links thanks to a few new lines of code. That should remove any issues bothering some people whose feed readers couldn’t figure out how to handle them.

Using Google Earth you can now track santa. You’ll need to open this kml file in Google Earth and it will start tracking Santa.

You can press F11 to put it in Full Screen mode (and again to get out of full screen) to turn your computer into a Santa tracker.

Geeks should note it’s a very interesting use of Google Earth’s refreshInterval tag. By essentially wrapping the data the “tracking” is done.

I’m now the 6th Robert on Yahoo. I haven’t even found myself on Google.

It’s going to take a lot to topple Robert Scoble.

Edit: No longer on the list as of 12/26/2005. Hmm.

Once again Happy Festivus.

This year, there is quite a bit of media coverage this yet. Yea!

Unfortunately no stores seem to have any commercials that mention it. Perhaps it’s time that change?

If some of this silliness keeps going on, were going to end up having airplanes without windows, because it could threaten security if you look outside.

Perhaps it’s time for some countries to consider building roofs over classified equipment, or perhaps putting a tarp over it. What ever happened to underground bunkers and camouflage?