Marcus Mattsson
Ramblings about crap in my life.
Ramblings about crap in my life.
Apr 28th
I’m a huge fan of optimizing the way I use my computer, if I stumble upon a task I know I will be doing in the future (e.g. looking up opening hours for the local grocery store) I usually try to make this task easier. So I’ll write a couple of articles about what techniques I use to do these things, the first being Firefox search keywords, which I’ve talked about before.
Firefox has a built in function that lets you add keywords for search fields on websites by right-clicking them and pressing “Add a Keyword for this Search”. This makes it possible to make a search on a site by typing “<keyword> <search term>” in the address bar (e.g. “i die hard” searches IMDb for “die hard”). This obviously has a lot of possibilities, and it’s probably the one thing that saves me the most time on a day to day basis. I use the following keywords:
You can follow these steps to import my keywords:
The next article will be about Greasemonkey scripts.
Apr 10th
There’s something very fascinating about board games that successfully envelop you in fictional universes in a way that’s usually reserved to computer games and movies. Twilight Imperium is the first big strategy board game I’ve tried, and it did just that. Yes, it takes several hours just to set up and get into, but when you’re there it’s very entertaining and actually not very complicated. Ten races make up the game, and in the duration of a single turn you set up trade agreements, vote on political issues, gain technology, increase your fleet size, invade and capture planets, fight space battles and much more. One game consists of 10 turns, which didn’t sound like much to me, but when we stopped playing after 10 hours, at 6 in the morning, we weren’t even halfway there.
Setting up the game and getting into the rules, which took us about 2 hours.
Under way!
Moving units.
This was near the end of the game, a lot of units and battles, but we were just too tired to continue.
Mar 29th
I’ve been using the old theme for a couple of years, and in that time I’ve changed the code a lot, and recently my changes have started breaking plugins, and I have no idea what the cause is. Today I was looking for a nice movie rating plugin, I found an amazing one, but once again it looked broken. So I finally decided to look for a new theme. I’m pretty satisfied with this one, although it probably won’t be the final one.
The movie rating plugin can be seen in action on the “I Watch” page.
Mar 24th
I’m finding it kind of funny to write about examples of bad design, so here we are again. This is another example I stumbled upon at school.
A paper napkin dispenser, looks fine and easy to use, right? Well, this dispenser is kind of a dummy, and if you pull the napkins, the dispenser doesn’t always pull new napkins down for the next person, and this suddenly reveals a new control:
A button saying “PUSH”. So, the engineers and designers at “Tork” were faced with the problem of their dispenser not dispensing new napkins, but instead of fixing the dispenser, they just added another control. Basically, the “PUSH” button just pushes a new napkin down. Dumb.
Mar 9th
This is gonna be spoiler-filled, and hopefully very, very sad if you were a child in the nineties.
This is one of those scenes that are just kind of bland today. I loved this movie as a kid and still do, it actually holds up pretty good. It’s a decent Norwegian/American pirate movie, and in this scene Håkon leaves his family to work on a boat for two years. Disney apparently re-shot all Norwegian scenes in English for the international version (which I own), and the Norwegian version is only available in Norway. Meh.
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Come on! :’D (go to 5:45 for epic Disney moment)
You knew this was coming. This still gets me going, let’s hope Disney’s resurrection of their old animation style also gives us back the old-school, honest stories.
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
This seems so ridiculous and cheesy now, but I cried like a baby when I saw this. Remember, I must’ve been like 12 and James Bond was the coolest guy around (we had the entire collection on VHS).
This scene gave me the idea to write this entry. Still a very touching scene.
That’s all I could come up with for now. Do you have other suggestions?
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