Tag Archives: google

Poor Franz

October 3, 2009

It’s a sad day when a random one-hit wonder band who stole your name gets a higher page rank in Google than you do. Poor Franz Ferdinand. I’ll bet he’s rolling in his grave. He should Black (back)Hand that band.

How to make Chrome bearable in Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04

September 25, 2009

So, there I was, watching Firefox 3 thrash my CPU and IO, when I decided that I needed a replacement. Something elegant, fast, preferably threaded… oh! Google Chrome! So, I finally found a link to download the unstable version of the browser based on the latest revisions, of which I got version 4.0.213.1-r27053. Now, I’ve used Chrome in Linux before, and a few things about Firefox kept me hooked. Today, though, I was on a mission to change all that. [...]

Greasemonkey Script to get Jabber Room for Google Group Chat

March 15, 2009

So, today I was invited to Google Group chat for the first time. This would be really cool on a terminal that’s not equipped with an IM client, since it’s all done through the web with flash and magic. But, since I don’t like having 2 IM clients running at the same time (Pidgin and the Flash one from Google), I decided I needed to rip out the Jabber Group Chat Room name from the invite page. I got some [...]

Google’s Summary of Me

October 18, 2007

So, I decided to search for ralree tonight, and of course my blog came up as the first result. I just thought it was funny what they chose as a description for my blog, which happens to be part of a code paste from a few days ago…

Google releases an IFRAME generator for Google Maps

September 8, 2007

Yes, it’s true, Google has released a simple iframe generator so you can embed Google Maps into anything, like this: View Larger Map For the record, Brickskeller is a pretty awesome pub. I highly recommend it if you are in the D.C. area.