Tinypliny's Journal

07/21/2011 21:43 #54753

E:strip search eccentricities
Category: e:strip

I think it might be helpful to document some of the weirdness that I experience with (e:strip)'s search function sometimes.

When I search for the term "wok":

This post about my wok mania turns up: (e:tinypliny,54663)

This post about my Amazon disenchantment while buying woks doesn't: (e:tinypliny,54693) (Though, wok is prominently in the title of the post and also mentioned in the body.)

Odd, don't you think?

metalpeter - 07/22/11 17:56
The Last time I used search it went by words used in the Journals not by the topic or the tittle.... So if you are trying to find a certain post it can be hard.... I thought there was a way to check by person also but you would have to remember who wrote it?

tinypliny - 07/22/11 13:31
So I have a higher number of corruptions than others? I wonder if this has something to do my compulsive and repetitive editing behaviour. I often pull up old articles and edit them just because I feel like it. Maybe the indexing can handle only a fixed number of versions and gets corrupted with a higher number... I always wonder about how versions work on estrip and i2. Newer image versions get a number hash appended but what about newer versions of posts?

paul - 07/22/11 13:24
My guess is there is something wrong with the index. I will look into it when I get a chance. The way search works, it does not actually look at every single word, it indexes the works in another place and then uses the indexes. If the index for that entry is corrupt then wok might not show up.

07/21/2011 21:01 #54752

Fry Pan Excitement, Part II
Category: eating in

Jul 21, 2011 4:24 PM
Arrived at FedEx location
PERRYSBURG, OH

WOOOHHOOO. Perrysburg!!!

Wait... What?! Why on earth is the pan going from City of Industry, CA to Perrysburg, OH instead of coming to Buffalo, NY?

Backstory: (e:tinypliny,54740)

tinypliny - 07/22/11 20:54
It's in Syracuse now!!

metalpeter - 07/22/11 17:54
Honestly not sure how all the stuff moves.... Generally though all the stuff going to the east coast moves somewhere ... Then all the stuff that goes to Ohio I think that is would go someplace based on where it was headed and so on and so forth.... but I don't work for fed ex so can't tell ya anymore really....

tinypliny - 07/21/11 21:25
WHAT?! I thought you were not going to get the zillion tablets and run the ebay scam...

paul - 07/21/11 21:18
Waiting for stuff is the worst. Thats how I feel about my tablet.

07/21/2011 20:27 #54751

Armstrong 200711
Category: goals

Day 4: 12x
Reason for stopping: general exhaustion, not specifically arm-pain.
Status: I was a complete hour late for this edition of project Armstrong because I got carried away talking with (e:Paul). So when I finally remembered, (e:Paul) offered to do push-ups with me. (Of course, he was doing the authentic push-ups, while I was trying to miserably drag through wimpy ones.) I think he got through 18-19 before I was done with my measly 12 with a ton of effort. It was nice to have someone doing the push-ups with me but it didn't really do much good in terms of motivating me to do more. I think this is a sign that the problem really lies so deep that it can't be fixed by mere peer motivation. (hey, that rhymes!)

paul - 07/21/11 21:17
You just got to stick with it.

07/20/2011 12:47 #54744

Extensions = Achilles Heel of Chrome
Category: i-tech

I knew this day would come. Chrome might be rock solid in its security features, but the fact that any odd person on the planet can write non-peer reviewed and non-standards compliant extensions for Chrome is a major drawback. Someone has just finished an elaborate hack to steal all your Gmail contact emails if you are using Scratchpad - the nifty app that lets you use Chrome as a notepad and syncs all of your notes to Google Docs as a backup.

The very fact that the zillion extensions I try out ALL need blanket access to ALL my browsing history and whatnots is a a bit disturbing. So what do we do? Chuck out all extensions? Chrome wouldn't be half as useful without these extensions that I use constantly. I am in a big quandry right now, as are several other Chrome fans, I am sure.

My current list of extensions:

Add to Google Bookmarks - Version: 0.1.2 ID: idhcimbcedikofokpoignmlnnkidpeld

(Can't get rid of this, this is how I sync my bookmarks ALL the time.)

Autocomplete = on - Version: 1.0 ID: ecpgkdflcnofdbbkiggklcfmgbnbabhh

(Nopes. this can't go. I need password filling...)

Autofill - Version: 5.5 ID: nlmmgnhgdeffjkdckmikfpnddkbbfkkk

(Maybe this can go... but then I will have to refill forms over and over. Maybe not then.)

Chrome IE Tab Multi - Version: 0.9.7.6 ID: fnfnbeppfinmnjnjhedifcfllpcfgeea

(Ridiculous work email OWA sometimes blocks attachments and I need this to access the attachments. I would gladly let go of this had it not been for the paleolithic work email.)

FlashBlock - Version: 0.9.31 ID: gofhjkjmkpinhpoiabjplobcaignabnl

(I need this. I am so terribly annoyed by all the annoying ad videos that start loading automatically when you visit a website. This extension just blocks them all till you really want to watch a video.)

History 2 - Version: 0.6.0

ID: cahejgbbfgmlmjgdjlibphdjeldhagkp
(The native history in Chrome is SO horribly structured, you can't find anthing. This extension eases the pain.)

Lazarus: Form Recovery - Version: 3.0.3.1 ID: loljledaigphbcpfhfmgopdkppkifgno

(Can't do without this at all.)

Link grabber - Version: 1.0 ID: modbohgknhnjilkoaggaacedmmfbfapn

(This could go... why can't Chrome have an Opera like view links features. Makes me want to switch to Opera which has all these features built in without the need for unsafe extensions.)

MiddleButtonScroll - Version: 1.1.0 ID: ibehnpdcgpabccnlefccelhblhphbbpl

(This is for my linux box. It is again so annoying in linux, chrome doesn't let you scroll with the middle click button. This is probably the only difference that matters between Chrome on Windows and Chrome on Linux)

One Window - Version: 2.15 ID: papnlnnbddhckngcblfljaelgceffobn

(I hate popups. Enough said. Can't get rid of this and am again annoyed that Chrome can't implement this natively.)

OWA Chrome Companion - Version: 0.1.2.5 ID: gmloogbeidmnmkdeoibnfcglaenjcmah

(Keeps track of work email. Indispensible.)

Readability Redux - Version: 1.3.2 ID: jggheggpdocamneaacmfoipeehedigia

(With the amount of ugly out there on the web, this is a lifesaver.)

Scratchpad - Version: 2.2.4 ID: kjebfhglflhjjjiceimfkgicifkhjlnm

(Hmm... considering parting with this because of the latest hack. I could always pull up the Google Docs website directly, even though it does take a whole minute more to load and post.)

Screen Capture (by Google) - Version: 5.0.3 ID: cpngackimfmofbokmjmljamhdncknpmg

(Pretty handy for any illustrations that I am doing. WAAAY more efficient than using the PrtSc button followed by Paint.NET edits.)

Shortcut Manager - Version: 0.7.9 ID: mgjjeipcdnnjhgodgjpfkffcejoljijf

(Remaps annoying keyboard combinations. Chrome should have native support for this. Again dissatisfied with the lack of choices on chrome. Opera has this feature, why not chrome?)

Tab Glutton - Version: 0.4.0 ID: ekfmaibfpamaegficfifofnlhalkbdfm

(I will go nuts without this. My average number of tabs usually hover around 50+)

tinypliny - 07/22/11 13:05
Hmm.. yeah, doesn't sound like CUL will work. It works really well for journals. Zotero might be another option. But I have always found Zotero to be frustrating because of its association with firefox and its rudimentary (almost non-existent) support for chrome.

heidi - 07/22/11 12:45
I tried PDFing everything and it was really annoying - I was cataloging 50+ articles a day.

tinypliny - 07/22/11 12:42
Hmm.. couldn't you just save these pages as PDFs on the site?

Yeah, that flashblock thing really makes surfing tolerable by eliminating a zillion useless videos all trying to load in the background and stealing your bandwidth.

heidi - 07/22/11 12:27
I really like the FlashBlock extension. :-)

heidi - 07/22/11 12:06
It automatically saves a copy of each page that I bookmark so that if the page goes away (common with newspaper sources), I still have the content.

tinypliny - 07/22/11 07:10
What is a cache option? Can you elaborate?

heidi - 07/22/11 00:40
Yeah, I looked at it as an option when I picked diigo. Since so much of my research isn't journal-based, I'd still have to type in all the citation information. Citeulike doesn't offer a cache option, and it's not in current development.

Good luck on the scratchpad clone.

tinypliny - 07/21/11 20:20
To get around all these security hassles, I am now thinking of creating my own scratchpad like extension that would save things on google docs. But the problem is I have no idea about how to start. I read this :::link::: and extracted the .crx files of two of the apps I am interested in (Quicknote and Scratchpad). The idea is to the take the best features of each and combine them together... but its an uphill task since I have zero familiarity with all of this right now. More importantly, I have no time.

tinypliny - 07/21/11 20:17
(e:heidi), have you ever looked at citeulike? I use that for all my work and school citations and references. There is no way I can trust anything else. All my PDFs, notes, fragments of writing, ideas, hypotheses are all on citeulike. It has numerous citation formats which are extremely convenient. I am now a "Gold member", not because the paid account is very different from the free account, but because I just like the service so much and know the developers personally... it's sort of like (e:strip) for me in a way but for work.

heidi - 07/21/11 16:01
I use a bunch of extensions and stuff from diigo. I keep my tagged, cached bookmarks there in a pro acct: :::link::: which has worked wonderfully for tracking all the articles I read about gas drilling. It made writing that ridiculous paper at the end of the semester really easy. Diiogo in the Chrome store: :::link:::
I've been using Quicknote but it doesn't have all the features of Scratchpad. There's a screen capture thingy too.

uncutsaniflush - 07/21/11 03:29
fwiw, I can middle scroll with chrome in fedora and chromium in pclinuxos. I didn't feel like booting into Ubuntu to see if I could scroll with the middle mouse button there.

07/19/2011 22:24 #54741

Armstrong 190711
Category: goals

Day 3: 16x
Reason for stopping: My knee started paining!
Status: I think I stuck to better form today but unfortunately did the push ups on the wood floor instead of on my yoga mat. Result: nasty knee pain and somewhat less arm pain. Maybe it's like the principle of the counter-irritant. The knee pain was so much that it masked the arm pain. Anyhow, this whole process of building up strength is painful... Probably the only thing that encouraged me to do it today was reporting about it here.

As John Wayne once never said, "A tiny-armed person's gotta do what a tiny-armed person's gotta do".

metalpeter - 07/20/11 17:00
That guy was still of an athlete and on a beer ad..... Think he might have got away with it cause he never endorsed it he was just one of the group.... Or maybe the Tour De France doesn't take place here so it is legal?

leetee - 07/20/11 10:08
simply because it is that time of year, when i read "Armstrong", i immediately think of the Tour de France :::link::: then i say, wait, Lance Armstrong retired (for the last and final time, we think!).