Highly sparse updates from the brain of someone who you probably don't know in person. http://grimboy.co.uk/blawg Updates few and far between since 2006! Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:33:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some bookmarklets I made a couple of bookmarklets to scratch itches in the way of hard to read web pages (Yeah, I know white ninja is meant to be like that. Doesn't make the text any easier to read on a laptop with masses of glare.) Readable width According to some publisher type's research, ... http://grimboy.co.uk/blawg/some-bookmarklets/ Where’s my vi <textarea>? Is it this it? Well, if you think opening another tab in gvim, making me switch back and forth and keeping stuff in sync behind my back counts then well, you have low expectations. How about this? no particular redistribution rights are granted; that means you do not have the right to use ... http://grimboy.co.uk/blawg/wheres-my-vi-textarea/ Firefox plugin priority order As far as I can see setting the priority in which plugins handle a piece of media when more than one plugin is capable of doing so in firefox is undocumented and there is no way to do so at about:plugins. This was rather irritating as the gxine starter plugin ... http://grimboy.co.uk/blawg/firefox-plugin-priority-order/ Django on dreamhost problem ***Update*** Looking around I found this post that puts forward what is a much better solution. It suggests renaming django.fcgi to dispatch.fcgi because dreamhost has a policy of not killing things called dispatch.fcgi. I've updated the dreamhost wiki page on django to mention this. What's below is my old solution: Primary problem My mum's ... http://grimboy.co.uk/blawg/django-on-dreamhost-problem/ Vim is teh awesombe! photo by lilit I recently started using vim as my primary text editor. I'm no expert with it (yet) I'm just posting with some advice to other people who also want to do the same. But first, I'm going to tell you why vim is good. Fast in terms of loading Fast in ... http://grimboy.co.uk/blawg/vim-is-teh-awesombe/ A guide to django on dreamhost (and django deployment in general) and my experience so far Dreamhost is one of the few large non-VPS shared hosting companies that is currently Django compatible. I've found that It hasn't been too hard to set up either. This little guide assumes you've read this guide and is mainly just caveats and tips followed by a bit of personal experience ... http://grimboy.co.uk/blawg/a-guide-to-django-on-dreamhost-and-django-deployment-in-general-and-my-experiance-so-far/