Monthly Archives: February 2006

Greasemonkeying Around

February 23, 2006
Lately I’ve been trying hard to improve my meager skills at work by reading the excellent new book DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith, the contents of which are too techy to go into here. Let’s just say it appeals to the geek in me. Anyway, the book got me thinking about this clever little extension for Mozilla Firefox (a web browser that you really should use if you don’t already) called Greasemonkey. The idea behind Greasemonkey is that users can create “scripts,” or little snippets of code, for a particular website that will make that site look or act differently than it was originally intended…
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A Few Things I’ve Learned from Ben

February 14, 2006
Like all proud parents, I love watching as my kids develop into curious, independent creatures. It’s pretty clear to me that the bromide about kids being sponges became a cliche for a good reason. Recently Ben has been learning more and more from others–pre-school teachers, neighbors, friends–and eagerly bringing home his newly discovered information.
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Stacking Pennies

February 11, 2006
A recent Make : Blog entry points to this strangely fascinating website with pictures of pennies stacked in cantilevered fashion to produce the most amazing structures…
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