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How AI Rebuilt This Blog: Blogger to Hugo in One Sitting

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000

This blog has been running on Blogger since 2005. That is not a typo. Twenty-one years of posts about BlackBerry keyboard shortcuts, Ubuntu upgrades, NAS backups, and eventually Business Central, all sitting on a platform Google has clearly stopped caring about. If you are reading this on blog.wingate365.com, you are reading it on a site that did not exist a few hours ago, built almost entirely by an AI agent while I sat next to it working on another project .

Fix Blogger 'Seatch this site' bug

Sat, 15 Mar 2014 00:18:00 +0000

Fix with a simple HTML gadget on the layout using this code:

Thanks David J. Schmidt

Remove Blogger Navbar

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:58:00 +0000

Add this code just above the ‘/* Variable definitions’ to the page HTML to remove the Blogger Navbar..

*/
#navbar-iframe {
 display: none !important;
}

Fix Firefox Keyword Search for New PubMed

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:46:00 +0000

PubMed updated their main page the otherday, which is nice.

However there was a bug or problem with my Firefox keyword searches as they no longer worked. After a bit of digging I found a few handy to know URLs for use with pubmed/NCBI, such as:

PMID links
http://pubmed.com/19621437

which will open the page for the article “Generation of a conditional CREB Ser133Ala knockin mouse” PMID:19621437

Search URL
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=nur77+dundee
will search PubMed with the following term “nur77 dundee”

In any case, here is how I used the above URL to fix my Firefox keyword search bookmarks. This might be useful for other sites where right-clicking and creating a keyword bookmark doesn’t work, as long as you know the correct search URL for the site in question.

You can edit the bookmark HTML by exporting your bookmarks, making changes to the file, then deleting all the bookmarks in firefox (except the toolbar ones) and re-importing the file. No doubt there is a way to directly edit the live copy of the file but I don’t know where that is saved…

Find the entry for your PubMed keyword and remove the

post_data".."

part. Also update the URL to the following

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%s

the end result will look something like this, if your keyword is set as “pub”

<DT><a href=" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%s" SHORTCUTURL=“pub” LAST_CHARSET=“UTF-8”>PubMed</a>

More Google WAVE

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:33:00 +0000

So here is a wave about Guild Wars 2.. Although still no details about game play… Anyway I though I would have a go at embedding it.. From what I hear you have to be logged into wave to see it…

<div id=“wave” style=“width: 560px; height: 420px”></div>
<script type=“text/javascript” src=“http://wave-api.appspot.com/public/embed.js"> </script> <script type=“text/javascript”> var wave = new WavePanel(‘https://wave.google.com/wave/'); wave.setUIConfig(‘white’, ‘black’, ‘Arial’, ‘13px’); wave.loadWave(‘googlewave.com!w+0baDzHlkA’); wave.init(document.getElementById(‘wave’)); </script>

Um it wont work, possibly because i need to add that lower set of code to the overall page html not in this post, oh well.. But here are some fish instead…

Google WAVE

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:21:00 +0000

Just checking out the features of Google Wave, its in its early days. But plenty of things to try out.

Some neat display options for the folders/contacts list etc. However, at the moment there appears to be a huge burden on the user as to the ‘correct way’ to use a wave so that its not confusing for the other users. You can ping people (to add them into a wave at a certain point), reply in private, reply at any stage of a wave, edit someone else text in a wave! I though they wanted to get anyway from confusing monster email’s.. Even with the playback, playing back a 60 reply message is not so quick..

Just this moment had a live wave with Owen which was a bit like using an IM, although you can go back and edit the other persons replied. Not sure about that. Also no sign of the ‘coloured by user’ text feature that I saw in the feature length preview video. However, it will take some time to see how it all works and will have to give the ‘known bugs’ & ’not yet implemented features’ lists a quick read

Thanks to Owen for getting me the invite! Check out the his web comic.

Help Desk...

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:26:00 +0000

Helping friends and family with IT support just got a whole lot easer with the use of Skype’s share screen feature..

T.F.I.F.T.

Thu, 03 Feb 2005 23:59:00 +0000

a dusty evening view of cars and trees

Thank f*ck its Friday tomorrow and then onto the weekend. Check out this amazing review of Firefox at Computerworld best of all are the comments to the piece - scathing doesn't even cover it. I like using firefox and think that everyone should download it. Notes for next week: think about valentines stuff... Buy new digital camera: toss up between Canon or Pentax to replace my less that satisfactory Fuji Film brutto gigante.