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I’ve updated my LiveJournal Crosspost Module/Extension to 1.3. There is one new feature added to it – any posts you make to LiveJournal will be formatted first. So you can use Markdown, Textile, or any other text formatting plugin available.

I just made an update to my Comment Text Formatting extension.

This new version allows you to specify the text formatting for your comments via a parameter in the comment display/comment preview tag.

What does this mean? The previous version of this extension allowed you to choose only one text format to be applied to all comments. This was done through the settings in the Control Panel. But say for some reason you want to apply the Textile formatting to the comments of one weblog, but Markdown on the comments of another. Well now you can do that by using the new “format” parameter!

To use, change your {exp:comment:entries} and {exp:comment:preview} tags and add the parameter wherever you want the formatting to be displayed:

If you don’t use the format parameter, then the extension will just use the settings from the Control Panel.

I didn’t even realize that I could use extensons to add new parameters like this, until, well, now.

Download Version 1.2.0 here.

I downloaded this program called iStrip the other day. iStrip downloads a list of selected comic strips from the web and caches them on your computer. I set it to get some of my favourite comic strips – Calvin and Hobbes, Get Fuzzy, and so on. You can set the preferences so that it’ll download all available images, so if you don’t open up the app each day to get a new comic, you won’t miss out on the previous comics.

Well, iStrip managed to download what looks like all of the Garfield comics, starting from 1978. That is 10,260 images, and it’s over 300MB in total. Cool eh? Of course you can view the same comics via the website, but it’s much faster if you view can view it offline.

A lot of Web 2.0 sites have domain names without the letter ‘e’ in them. For example, Flickr. Blogr. Zoomr. Splashr. Wishlistr. Grupthink (well, this one is without the ‘o’). Stocktickr. Delivr. Snipplr. It’s a trend I don’t quite get.

Now there’s a new site called Twttr which I’m guessing is “twitter” with the vowels taken out. It’s a service where you can keep track of your friends using text messaging. I think the domain name looks horrible! Note: I haven’t really looked around the site yet, I’m not saying that the service itself is horrible. It looks interesting!

But hey – it is to do with text messaging – and people don’t type up full words on text messages all the time – so perhaps the domain name is appropriate.