• Once more unto the breach, dear friends! In this third fourth (already?) installment of Microformats and Greasemonkey, we’ll wonder in sheer amazement at the unifying power of our two leading subjects when carelessly wielded against mounds of unstructured ignorance. How’s that for a beginning? The previous post ended abruptly in a cliffhanger-wannabe fashion, suggesting great

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  • Welcome to the third installment in this series about microformats and Greasemonkey! In the last episode, after failing spectacularly at providing a not too long rant on the subject at hand (and even omitting completely the expected Greasemonkey bit), I boldly introduced a barebones measurement unit microformat proposal. Today, after deftly inserting another split infinitive

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  • Welcome back! Today I am going to rant —briefly, I promise— about microformats and try to cobble together a simple one to denote measurement units. So there! As I said in the previous post, microformats are small pieces of self-significant HTML that may be used to embed automatically parseable information in a web page. They

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  • This is going to be the first of a tiny series of overly technical posts which may only matter to a number of persons so small it may indeed turn out to be negative. Meaning this might (just might) not matter even to me. Anyway, it’s been fun in a twisted way. Enjoy. Greasemonkey is

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  • No hay como el mes de agosto para encontrar bromas en Google Earth. Pero a cada uno lo suyo: los datos de redes de transporte reflejados en Google son aportados, generalmente, por los transportistas. Lo que indica que la broma surge de entre las paredes de Metro de Madrid. ¿Será una señal, un menxaje xecreto

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  • ¡Ya he vuelto de vacaciones! No, esa no era la noticia. Lo intentaré de nuevo: ¡Futurama está de vuelta! Pero eso lo sabíamos ya todos los interesados. ¿Y si el primer DVD de la nueva temporada saliera a la venta en los EE.UU. el 27 de noviembre? ¡Yay! El formato de la nueva temporada de

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