Unipage is a neat tool that allows you to save a complete web page as one file instead of as many separate files. Nice way to store web pages you want to view again later without all of the files taking up space on your harddrive. Also a neat way to send web pages to someone else. All that’s required to view is a browser.
This looks like a real leap forward. The basic idea is that rather than accessing an application and then individual folders within that application (i.e. email organized into inbox, etc.), you access a folder and then access the documents within that folder. It’s only in beta right now, but the idea is a huge improvement. No longer would the documents for a particular project or matter be scattered amongst various different application folders. Plus, it’s web based.
TechCrunch » Foldera: Never organize your inbox again
My wife has been craving lobster for several weeks now (she’s pregnant) so, yesterday, I decided to fix her some lobster tails. Living in Georgia, we can’t of course get fresh lobster tails at the supermarket, but we do have frozen cold water (these are from Canada as Maine lobsters cannot be sold in parts) lobster tails as well as spiny lobsters. Decided on the cold water lobster tails which I picked up at the local Publix. Now for a recipe. Inclined to love the grill and being somewhat of an accomplished grill master, I naturally looked for a grilling recipe. As always, Steven Raichelen’s book, How To Grill provided an interesting lobster recipie, a butter cilantro basted grilled lobster tail with mango salsa. First, I butterflied the lobster tails and put a marinade of garlic and lime juice in which I had soaked two halves of a habanero pepper (can’t find Scotch bonnets where I live) and put it in the fridge to sit. Lit the gril and set up for direct grilling. Then I made the mango salsa (mangoes, cilantro, red pepper, lime juice, brown sugar and habanero) and put it in the fridge. After thirty minutes marinating, the lobster tails went on the grill. Meat side down first for three minutes, turn once, baste with butter and cilantro sauce and then eight minutes on the shell side. When those babies came of the grill, it was the best seafood I have ever put in my mouth. My wife went nuts and one of our friends who was over for dinner raved. On top of that, the mango salsa was delicious and will definitely be a repeat recipe at our house. It was sweet with a deep heat that came on after the initial sweetness subsided. Delicious.
Well, I finally had time to get postgresql working on my Ubuntu “Breezy” box. It was not really all that difficult, but a little different from MySQL setup. I did not find the pgAdmin gui interface helpful at all, but the howto at Darren Oakley’s blog that I mentioned in an earlier post was most helpful. I use Synaptic rather than command line apt-get, so I adpated the instructions for that. The first thing I did was to uninstall my mysqld installation. I still needed the clients for things like Amarok, etc., but not the server, so I removed that, then proceeded with the Postgresql installation. The installation was incredibly easy. Since I’m intent on using this for a Ruby on Rails development box, I went into my database.yml file and changed the adapter over to postgresql, created a create.sql file to hold my database definition and there I was. I restarted my webserver, started up the postgres server and everything worked. Now I’m starting work on my application. What I’m working on is a practice management tool for a real estate law firm. I’ll update you on my progress as we go.
Jason Fried’s thoughts on software design and productivity.
Mozilla developer says that Firefox does not have a significant memory leak, but what many people are thinking is a memory leak is in fact related to the caching of pages in Firefox 1.5 to allow for faster forward and back browsing.
Inside Firefox – The Inside Track on Firefox Development
I know everybody has their favorite feedreader/aggregator, but you have to check this one out. I signed up for it about a month ago and with the steady improvements they have been incorporating, it has become my favorite. I much prefer webbased feedreaders because I can access my feeds anywhere with nothing more than a browser. I’ve tried several of them, spending the most time with Bloglines. News Alloy is better in my opinion because of the AJAX features and the power user features. I really like the keyboard shortcuts. Check it out. News Alloy
