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Natebot Unscripted.

Back in October, I mentioned Ubiquity - an incredible add-on for Firefox that allows you to use Web services without visiting their web pages. For example searching Google without going to google.com.

Back then I said I'd share more. Well here's my own small Ubiquity script for searching the Code Igniter user manual along with a screen shot of it in action.

Simply activate Ubiquity, type "ci" and the word or phrase to search and you'll instantly get back a preview of the 4 top results from Google. You'll also get links to search the forums or wiki for the same search terms.

Ubiquity keeps growing and changing as it snowballs its way to a full on 1.0 release, and I'm sure I'll need to update the script before long. If you are a Ubiquity developer let me know so I can follow your blog or use your scripts!

Labels: javascript, ubiquity

Dear readers, if you're reading this I'm amazed. :) You see, it's been months, long, wintery, soul grinding months since I've posted here and for that I'm sorry. I can't really blame you for not checking back in hope that something may have appeared. But lo! A new post appears! A new direction is in the works.

I'd like to say that my recent flirtations with Facebook and Twitter are to blame - and that's true to the extent that it's just more convenient to post directly to those networks - but really the one-way channel that is blogging hasn't been on my mind of late. After leaving Privateer I've been pursuing contract work - no easy feat in this flat world - and ramping up my business knowledge to get back into the freelancer mode of existance. Nothing like reading the fine points of Seattle and Washington State business tax codes to pass the winter months.

But summer is on its way and so it's time for me to start posting again and to take things in a new direction. The initial purpose of the blog was to provide some context of my life here in Seattle to those back in Indiana. But I feel Facebook does a better job of that now, and Twitter does a better job of keeping you informed of my current life context. So for now I'll focus my blog on more technology-based stuff.

So my plan is to switch for a personal blog about my life to a blog about my current interests. I'll share my current love of PHP programming, jQuery goodness, and LAMP stack wizardry - with an occasional post on flying cars and fembots just to keep things real.

Until the next post, thanks for checking in!