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RFC 2388 Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data

2007 Jun 15, 3:44Info on the format of the MIME type that contains data from an HTML form submission of enctype multipart/form-data.PermalinkCommentsform html mime multipart encoding rfc reference internet ietf

San Francisco Trip

2007 May 11, 7:48Hotel Diva BedAfter Carissa and Elijah's wedding Sarah and I went to San Francisco. We drove in, well Sarah drove anyway, still in the PT Cruiser Sunday morning and checked into our hotel, Hotel Diva. I was originally concerned that I wouldn't fit in as I don't really consider myself a diva, however the hotel was cool. They have Internet rooms setup in various themes, the front desk is always staffed, our room had a very modern look, and when we entered the flat-screen over the front desk was playing an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Outside the SF Museum of Modern ArtWe walked around a bit before going to the SF Museum of Modern Art. There was a Picasso exhibit at the time which we could see for only $3 more. It felt kind of wrong like my ticket was super-sized. I think the most memorable piece I saw was three white panels which consisted of three blank panels. Art. Sure. After that Sarah wanted to see the giant Hello Kitty store she had heard of from her sister. We ended up going to the Westfield Shopping center which has a disappointingly average sized Hello Kitty store. Apparently the giant one is gone. That night we went to First Crush for dinner. I had a flight of wine which consists of three one-third sized glasses of various but complimentary wines. It was a great restaurant in terms of food, drink, atmosphere and service.

Sarah & I Pier 39The next morning we were even more the tourists when we went down to Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39. We visited the famous wax museum and purchased multiple pounds of taffy. On the way back to the Oakland airport we got to experience a little traffic as part of the 580 freeway had collapsed the morning we arrived and was still under repair on our way out. We survived of course and I think the trip went rather well.PermalinkCommentssanfrancisco personal california sfmoma nontechnical

How can I Make my Offline Life Easier?

2007 Apr 17, 8:04A list of simple things you can do to make life easier.PermalinkCommentsadvice howto tips

Opera Speed Dial Code-less Hack for IE7

2007 Apr 17, 11:45Opera (the fifth most popular web browser) has a new feature named Speed Dial (video of it in action). Whenever you open a new tab you get your Speed Dial view which consists of nine thumbnails of user-settable pages. Its like a quick-favorites that appears every time you open a new tab. I think this is a neat idea and was considering how I might do that in IE7. The following is my hack-y and ugly but no coding required version of Speed Dial for IE7. I like my hack and I'm about to expound upon it in unnecessary detail so skip to the last paragraph if you're afraid of losing interest.

By default in IE7, whenever you open a new tab you navigate to 'about:Tabs'. As noted in wikipedia the result of navigation to 'about:Tabs' is determined by values in the registry. Specifically, values in the key in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs". Usually this fact is exploited by malicious software to hijack "about:blank" and show you ads but we can hijack it too in order to display our Speed Dial-ish page.

Of course since this is a code-less hack we've got limited options on what to change 'about:Tabs' to display. It should have the following requirements.
  1. Something local so that our 'about:Tabs' doesn't disappear when we go offline and so that its relatively fast.
  2. The user should be able to modify its content.
  3. Show links that the user uses.
  4. Show thumbnails of those links
  5. Provide easy to use drag and drop interaction and generally look cool.
Now, I use del.icio.us which allows me to store all of my favorites online and which provides RSS feeds that list my saved links. New in IE7 is an RSS platform that will, among other things, cache RSS feeds locally. So, by pointing about:Tabs to my del.icio.us feed 'http://del.icio.us/rss/sequelguy/quickreference' I get (1) from IE7's RSS support, and (2) and (3) from del.icio.us. Of course requirements (4) and (5) are missing but hey, I said this was ugly.

In summary, if you change the registry value "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs!Tabs" to point to an RSS feed of your favorites you can get a hack-y version of Opera's Speed Dial. I should note that although its referenced on pages such as wikipedia changing your 'about:Tabs' URI in the manner I describe is not documented and not supported by Microsoft. There could be all kinds of horrible repercussions from this change of which I'm not aware. Yeah, actually you know what? Forget I said any of this. Pretend I never wrote it...PermalinkCommentsbrowser technical hack

The secrets of a super-slim wallet at LifeClever ;-) Tips for Design and Life

2007 Apr 11, 5:23Tips on getting the size of your wallet down including pointers to smaller cool wallets you can buy.PermalinkCommentshowto shopping wallet via:incredulous

Command Not Found (Niath)

2007 Mar 21, 12:14This program will tell you how to install an application if you try to use one that it knows about and that you don't have installed.PermalinkCommentsbash blog opensource tool ubuntu article linux tips

BashFaq - Greg's Wiki

2007 Mar 19, 10:54Tutorials and examples for making scripts for the Unix shell Bash.PermalinkCommentshowto linux bash reference shell script tutorial programming tips

RFC 2045 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies

2007 Mar 8, 1:01Definition of Quoted-Printable an encoding used in MIME.PermalinkCommentsmime encoding quoted-printable ietf rfc reference standard

An Evaluation of Extended Validation and Picture-in-Picture Phishing Attacks

2007 Jan 26, 6:43Usability study of phishing attacks and browser antiphishing defensesPermalinkCommentssecurity browser phishing paper ie7

RFC 1847 - Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted

2006 Dec 27, 9:42This document defines a framework within which security services may be applied to MIME body parts.PermalinkCommentsrfc mime internet reference privacy encryption security encoding authentication read

Shell Blog : Do things faster with Keyboard Shortcuts

2006 Nov 2, 6:23Helpful keyboard shortcuts for doing things in Vista's shell.PermalinkCommentsblog microsoft shell tips windows vista shortcuts keyboard

Linux.com | Vim tips: Working with external commands

2006 Oct 26, 10:31Using external commands in vim.PermalinkCommentsvim tips tutorial shell

Tip #246 - Working with Unicode (the same, rewritten for legibility) : vim online

2006 Jun 21, 12:39PermalinkCommentsunicode vim vim7 encoding

RFC 2045 - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies

2006 Apr 5, 11:05PermalinkCommentsmime internet mail rfc reference specification

Mike's C++ Tips

2006 Mar 21, 7:24PermalinkCommentsc++ blog mike mike-laiosa development stl software

RFC 2388 - multipart/form-data

2005 Oct 13, 11:13Multipart/form-data mimetype. Potentially used in HTML postsPermalinkCommentsrfc reference internet mime html
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