Most of my visitors see this site through their RSS aggregator, so they won’t notice that I’ve just done an overhaul on the design. Well, I applied a new theme, anyway. But I quite like it now. What do you think?
I’ve finally convinced Francesca to start a blog, and here it is. There are too many fun stories about things Josh and Milo do, and this will be a good way to document them. I hope she continues to write, because if she hits her stride, watch out!
I gotta say, I tried it briefly, but I just don’t give a Flock. (ooh, aren’t I clever?) I tend to be late to the party with cool new stuff sometimes, but I just don’t get the big deal about this. It’s a non-standard Firefox implementation as far as I can tell, and although it has a few nice bells and whistles built in, I can’t honestly say it does anything that can’t be done with a few well-chosen Firefox extensions. Who knows, maybe I’m wrong - but I’m not sure I care either way.
I’m totally blown away by how cool this is. Macworld has an article with a bunch of Firefox tips, and this is the best one I’ve seen in ages. It turns out that if you right-click on search field on any page (Command-click for Mac users), you can choose “Add a Keyword for this Search…”. Once you do this, a bookmark form pops up, and you’re prompted to name the bookmark, and choose a keyword for it. Here’s where the magic happens. Once you’ve named it and chosen an appropriate keyword for it (preferably something short and easy to type), you can then use that keyword right in your address bar with a search term and automatically search the site you built the keyword for.
So, for example, I made one for this blog. I named it J.P.C. Search, and made a keyword of ‘blog’. Now, when I type the word ‘blog’ in the Firefox address bar, followed by a search term, say ‘email’, I’ll get the search results page for this site with all results relating to email.
