vi gem

I’ve been using “vi” (a popular unix text editor) for about 15 years. Today I learned something important. Vi has bookmarks that can be used for doing stuff with blocks of text easily.

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Markdown Extra Improvement

I've been using Markdown Extra for formatting posts and pages for a new site I'm working on. Since I want the back-end editing to be as simple as possible, I…

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History in all it’s 640×480 glory…

Google has announced today on their official blog that they are starting a pilot program to digitize the National Archives' video content. They posted a few example links including the…

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2 Picasa2 Tips

Tip 1: Hover over any thumbnail and hit Ctrl-Alt. It will instantly fill the screen with the high resolution image. Tip 2: Hit Ctrl-L and your web browser will pop…

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Clean up URL’s with .htaccess

Many websites work with either "www.mysite.com" or "mysite.com". Google doesn't like that since it looks like two sites--sometimes they might penalize you for it. From their guidelines page: Don't create…

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