I think that 24/7 news is a modern-day scourge, and one of its corollaries in the UK is the overdue prominence given to US news. I use the BBC News website when I'm trying to find out what's going on, but I'd prefer that the coverage was of countries within three thousand miles. I used Copilot to help me bash together an extension for both Chrome and Firefox which simply removes U...

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Lighthouse is “beautifully simple issue tracking” (a hosted bugtracker to you and me). It looks great and is pretty much a joy to use. At work we use Trac. Trac is a locally-installed bugtracker (plus wiki and source browser). It looks like a nightmare and there are parts which make the baby Jesus cry

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This is a stupid Greasemonkey script which looks at a BBC podcast listings page and generates an OPML file. It’s a 20 minute hack and so is hard-coded for the Radio 4 podcasts – another five minutes should fix this. For the time being,

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What’s on telly instead is a stupid Greasemonkey script that displays what the BBC are broadcasting on TV and radio at the same time as an event marked up with hCal. It’s very basic and only supports events where dtstart and dtend ...

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turn Greasemonkey on and off tab out of Flash widgets (can tab into them, but then can’t get back out to the page again) Rather astonishingly, for the things I want to do frequently, that might be it. Nevertheless the Flash thing catches me out every single day.

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Back in November, Tiago Silveira updated the JavaScript Textile implementation that powers my Textile Greasemonkey script, but I just hadn’t got around to rolling in his changes, so he’s done the sensible thing, and ro...

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After a bit of discussion with a chap at work, individual items featured at the University of Bath’s What’s On now sport hCalendar in their markup. For example: Daytime T’ai Chi Beginners...

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A couple of weeks ago, Tom Coates was moaning about a UI aspect of del.icio.us: I do not understand why del.icio.us’ submission form doesn’t limit the amount of characters that you can input into it. Instead, ...

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In the hope that writing them down might goad me into doing some of them, here’s a list of things which keep running through my head but which I’ve done little or nothing about: Fix my blog template so that you can navigate between posts from an individual post’s page Make blog archive page navigation easier When I post a form, intercept it with Greasemonkey (

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Favourites are in (also on userscripts.org).

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