the empty quarter

Tuxradar, a site worth keeping an eye on, published a basic Greasemonkey for beginners tutorial a little while back. Greasemonkey is a Firefox plugin which allows you to add little scripts which are executed when you browse to a particular page. The script can manipulate the page itself, e.g. to show additional content or to […]

A bit of background: for a while now I have been buying books from the SF Masterworks series from Orion Publishing, mainly when I am in a bookshop and I see a book from the series which I don’t yet have. So far I have bought sixteen of the books, and I though it would […]