The Garbled Zombie

Clogs of Mud

Garbled Zombie — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:35:35 +0000

I step into the rivulet, my foot caked in mud
It’s cool and fast, and the water takes the mud away
Once my foot is washed, I step on the mud again
And press it down, so that it’s deep into the mud now
I lift it with effort, and wobble on the mud then
My other foot presses deep, sinks into the mud too
Then I balance myself, on clogs now of the mud made
And teeter by the stream, water ahead, mud behind
I teeter over the stream’s flow, on my clogs of mud

Mottö

Garbled Zombie — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:56:43 +0000

Zombie Words

Garbled Zombie — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 02:22:52 +0000

Is there a word for words that keep appearing in your mind for no discernable reason? A word that’s been bugging me for a while now is ‘pewterglass‘.

Garbled Zombie — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:21:51 +0000

Backlog of 1700~ items on Anki.

Let’s get to work.

Emotional Driver

Garbled Zombie — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:30:45 +0000

More Bloody Important Than Being Right

Garbled Zombie — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:08:23 +0000

Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and over till it bloody understands that not hurting people is ten bloody thousand times more bloody important than being right.

David Mitchell
Black Swan Green

Kissing in Heaven

Garbled Zombie — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:51:41 +0000

I don’t know what you want

Garbled Zombie — Sun, 15 May 2011 04:27:46 +0000

鬼ごっこしよう

Garbled Zombie — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:37:44 +0000

この世の終わりは
毒虫の吹雪
あなたも私も
同じ小さな虫
だから
あのね
消えてしまうまで
つかの間遊ぼう
くるくるまわって
鬼ごっこしよう

大槻ケンヂと絶望少女達
人形たち

Experiments in Tinkering Around with Firefox 4

Garbled Zombie — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 09:13:00 +0000

Sometime around 2008, Google released Chrome and simultaneously, the top secret body of Browser UI Designers Worldwide decided the hip new way to make a browser is by un-making the browser and stripping out everything most people don’t really need. It took a while for the memo to reach me, but it did, and now I spend an inordinate amount of time tricking out my Firefox 4 install into looking like this:

I know, it’s amazing! I never thought President Saleh would step down. But also awesome is that browser UI you’re looking at. It’s a single strip with back/forward, a Gmail app-tab, the tab bar and a couple of useful buttons at the end. I haven’t figured out a way to solve the ugly-looking caption buttons at the very end. Maybe if I did, the browser would look awesome, it would refuse to work. It’s a theory.

The address bar, search and the gloriously orange Firefox button show-up when you hover over the top strip. This might seem annoying, but it actually isn’t. Also, the top-strip (I call it that because it’s kinky) has one uber-new-tab-button, which says “Click anywhere on me to make a new tab” (mostly it just says “+”).

Here’s another screenshot, with my totally pimped out context menu.

It isn’t perfect though, there’s a lot of inelegancies left. For one, the add-on bar stays down until I manually call it up with the Ctrl+/ shortcut key. The need for the bookmarks bar was eliminated with the help of Fast Dial for Firefox, which is a much more fun way to store and use bookmarks anyway. The bookmarks bar itself only shows up on new tabs/fast dial tabs, as it has my RSS feeds on it (can’t do without RSS feeds in my browser). This makes things look cluttered.

Seeing as how the hover-bar is unlikely to be lapped up by every browser user on the planet, I’ll be modest and not call this the browser UI of the future. It’s just the browser UI of the future’s future.

Most customisations have been achieved with a wealth of Stylish userstyles, most of them modified by me for compatibility. Add-ons helped a lot too, but mostly just the Moveable Firefox Button add-on, which should totally be an in-built feature in Firefox 5.