The Slakinski Log

iPod Touch Blogging

rays — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:33:28 +0000

Wow this is pretty cool when you get good blogging software for a devicethat fits in the palm of your hand granted I could blog from my old palm 3 but it was never this easy!

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Lets Go Sailing

rays — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:52:48 +0000

The Mahalo Daily Team just did a vid on one of my favorite subjects - Sailing!

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WALL-E

rays — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:30:52 +0000

“Saving the world became secondary to the power of holding hands. There is an amazing amount of life and humanity throughout and a quality message to boot.” — Jeff Bayer

Shannon, Aidan and I went to see this on Friday night, and loved it, I found the above comment to sum it all up if you don’t know what its all about. Its a must see, just like any Pixar movie is

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Mahalo Supports Wiki Auto-Discovery Edit Button

rays — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:29:26 +0000

As seen in the below video Mahalo now supports the Wiki Auto-Discovery button. Which is a button that indicates to you quickly and easily that you can also contribute to this page!

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How To Do Stuff

rays — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:03:41 +0000

Have some fun this summer with these great How Tos from the How To team over at Mahalo this week! Enjoy over the summer with friends and family

How to Make Spring Rolls
How to Make Bread Pudding
How to Make a White Russian
How to Make a Sex on the Beach
How to Make a Long Island Iced Tea
How to Make Potato Salad
How to Make Egg Salad
How to Make Iced Coffee

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Amazon EPIC FAIL

rays — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:11:00 +0000

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xkcd: Starwatching

rays — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:56:22 +0000

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Does Mahalo Crash Your Firefox?

rays — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:40:38 +0000

We at Mahalo have had quite a few reports of Firefox 3 crashing when visiting Mahalo.com. (Here’s a video of it happening.) We’d love to get this fixed, but we are unable to duplicate the problem on our own machines.

If this happens to you, here is some information that you could send us to help us out:

1. Your Operating System and Firefox versions. Example: Mac OSX 10.4.11, Firefox 3.0RC1.
2. Whether you’re logged into Mahalo when it happens.
3. prefs.js. This file is found in your Firefox profile directory, and it contains any changes you’ve made to Firefox’s default settings. It doesn’t contain any especially private or personally identifiable information. (Where is my Firefox profile directory?)
4. If you can get Mahalo to crash Firefox in a clean profile (one without any personal information like passwords or an extensive browsing history), then sending us a ZIP of your entire profile directory would be extremely helpful. If the crashing happens in your regular, every-day browsing profile, please don’t send this to us if there’s any chance that it includes information that you don’t want anyone else to know, like usernames, passwords, or browsing history.

So if you’d like to help us fix this problem, send as much of this information as you can to rays@mahalo.com. Just remember: We’re all in this together. We don’t want Firefox to crash any more than you do.

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Search and Replace With Python

rays — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:45:03 +0000

Today I had a large (re: 4GB) file that I needed to do some search and replace on, and none of my text editors including my beloved Textmate could even open the file. So I turned to the most trusty of tools in my tool chest which is python!

f = open(infile, “r”)
n = open(outfile, “w”)
for line in f:
output = line.replace(oldtext, newtext)
n.write(output)

In just a couple of minutes I had a new file with the changes I needed. Its pretty basic stuff, but non-programmers (especially those that don’t use languages like python) might not think of trying.

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You Can Now Post Video Comments

rays — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:01:03 +0000

I’ve installed the WordPress plugin for Seesmic, which allows you now to post Video comments to this blog! all you need is flash, a webcam and a microphone… oh and a seesmic account

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