Ana Nelson
Brilliant Way to Dispense Drugs
From the “why didn’t someone think of this years ago” department.
OT: I really, really, really love yanking URLs. Source for this cartoon is here, tumblr’s click through seems to be broken.
Who says programmers are bad at UI design?!
Keyboard Driven Browsing
So, I’ve been thinking it would be nice to do less mousy browsing and control Firefox using keystrokes, but I didn’t bother researching the idea at all. And, I didn’t have to. Today, both vim and emacs style browser navigation tools dropped into my lap.
Chapter 3: Starting and Stopping ANA.
(To install ANA on your computer system, see Installing ANA). You begin an ANA session by typing at the keyboard the name of the program on your system (probably ana). After some initialization and a greeting message, the main ANA prompt appears:
ANA>
ANA is now ready to take your commands. Any complete command that you type is executed immediately. For example, if you type the command t,’Hello, world!’ and press the RET key, then the screen looks something like this:
ANA>t,'Hello, world!'
Hello, world!
ANA>
The T command is a synonym of TYPE (TYPE) and PRINT (PRINT), and displays its arguments on the screen. ANA has executed your command and is waiting for the next one.
You end an ANA session by entering the QUIT command (QUIT), or the equivalent EXIT command (EXIT), or by typing C-x RET.
If you want some initialization commands to be executed automatically when ANA starts up, then put those commands in file `.anainit’ in your home directory. The contents of that file are read and executed automatically when ANA starts.
- Command Line Arguments What you can add to the “ana” command
- Batch Mode How to run ANA unattached to any terminal
World Wide Telescope
More amazing visualization being supported by Microsoft. Do any of the other big players understand that visualizing data is what the next 10 years are going to be all about?
My favourite thing about Google Reader...
…is the search feature. So if you read something in your feed and forget to bookmark it, you are searching a much-reduced subset of the internet to find it again.
