Archive for August, 2006

Composing Hebrew Messages in GMail

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

Hebrew support in GMail is a bit problamatic. You can align the text to the right and start typing in hebrew, but when you enter numbers or punctuation marks the text gets flipped. For example, you can't end a sentence with a period, because the period jumps to the beginning ...

A Google plugin for deskbar-applet

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

I discovered Gnome's deskbar-applet today. What a great tool! I wrote a Google plugin that allows you to search Google, use I'm Feeling Lucky, and get a word definition using 'define:word'. You can download it here. To install, simply extract this file in your ~/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/handlers directory. To use the plugin, type the ...

Billiards Tip

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Here's a tip to improve your game.

Superhero Survey

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Turns out I'm Iron Man, according to this superhero survey: (via Quantumm Pontiff)

Chicken McNuggets

Monday, August 7th, 2006

McDonald's sells its Chicken McNuggets in groups of 6, 9, and 20. What is the largest number of McNuggets you can't buy?