Irregular Verbiage

• Effortless Good: If you’re buying things from Amazon, then installing a little Firefox extension will cause Amazon to pay the referrer fee to charity.
• I’m having a play with Komodo Edit (which recent changed its license to GPL/MPL/LGPL), I’ve been looking for a replacement for the venerable NEdit for some time but this is the best candidate I’ve found. In particular the features i really want:
  • Search/Replace with regular expressions
  • easy to use block select mode (ideally using the ctrl key)
  • keyboard record/replay
  • tabbed interface
  • Easy to use keyboard shortcuts (i.e. not emacs/vi)

  all seem to be present in a simple UI with syntax highlighting, code folding and everything else you’d expect

• Best Sellers: I’m very pleased with our eeeps

Things are busy here, both at work (I’m doing overtime) and at home (getting Katie to sleep is a intricate art), when I do get a chance, I seem to be reading a surprising amount about the American primaries given that it’s only the build up to an election in a foreign country. Listening to Obama speak is inspiring, it seems that if he wins, the US will have one of the good guys in charge.

On the subject of good guys, given that Lessig has decided not to run for congress in the States, maybe we could get him to run for the UK parliament, though maybe Change Congress has a better ring to it than Change Parliament.

In other news, I’ve been watching quite a bit (much less than Em!) of the excellent West Wing on DVD.

Em and I were in Toys R Us yesterday evening (for baby things) and we saw a huge display for the EeePC sub-notebook. Later, that night the following conversation took place.

Further discussions ensued. We’ll probably get one sooner or later (woo!).

In other news the baby swing that we went out to buy is already proving its use as an automated dad. Previously one of the best ways to get Katie to sleep was to swing her gently in a car seat. The swing removes all the sweating from the process.

It’s been a slightly geeky couple of days. Yesterday I spent a few hours rearranging the network topology around the house. We now have a wireless router allowing easy (DHCP, NATed) access to the internet and separately a little web server (a slug) running on a static IP address ready for a domain (or subdomain) to be directed to it. I’m guessing not many households have two routers and a network switch in their networking set up.

Today I’ve made some updates to the blog – I’ve stopped the Twitter digests (and added a Twitter sidebar to the blog). The digests were inhibiting my Twittering as I didn’t want to create lots of posts with a single tweet in them

Geekery aside it’s been a good couple of days – yesterday Em’s mum came to visit and today we had a walk along the beach at Lepe…..the concept of actual work seems so foreign yet in a short time I’ll be back.

• Watching the BBC iPlayer while I wander around the living room trying to get Katie to sleep…5 years ago there would have nothing to watch #

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