While this blog is a great place to write about new projects, releases and whatnot, I’ve found that it’s not ideal venue for me to showcase the things I’m most proud of. Because I wanted a single spot where people could easily find all the things I’ve made, I decided to create TommyBrunn.com!

Before you start complaining, I did not bend over backwards to accommodate for ancient or strange browsers. The site will work just fine for almost all browsers (as long as you have Javascript enabled), but if you’re running Internet Explorer 5.5 on Windows 98, it will probably look a bit funky.

If you want to view my illustrations and other kinds of designs, my applications, scripts and snippets, or read a little bit about me personally, hop on over to TommyBrunn.com!

Remember those snazzy badges I made some time ago? Well, after having been featured on OMG! Ubuntu! I felt like getting back on the proverbial horse and make some more badges. So I did. I’m not crazy about the font situation, but Arch’s official font seems to be Liberation Sans - so that’s what I’m going with.

As usual, there is one color and one monochrome flavors, both with low-opacity versions. Sticking them on your website is super easy. For more information on that, go check out the Made on Linux page.

If you want me to make badges like these for your favorite distribution, simply shoot me an email (my email is available on the contact page). There are some distributions that I can’t make badges for because of copyright reasons, but I promise I’ll do my best.

Don’t worry, I’m not going to bore you by trying to explain just what Google Wave is. If you know, you already know that it’s really not that revolutionizing. If you don’t yet know, just know that it’s amazing!

I kid, of course.

Nevertheless, I happen to have a quite substantial amount of invitations that nobody seems to want. If you want one, leave a comment. People whose comments include a link to a funny lolcat will get their invitations faster than those without one. So if you really want in, bring cats.

When I logged onto Twitter a couple of minutes ago, I was greeted by a banner saying:

New! Lists. A great way to organize the people you follow and discover new and interesting accounts. (BETA)

Lists are timelines you build yourself, consisting of friends, family, co-workers, sports teams, you name it. You’re part of a small group receiving this feature, so don’t tweet about it yet! (Author’s note: Sorry, but I couldn’t help myself.)

I feel so web2.0 that I think I’m going to have to hop on over to Google Wave and notify all my Facebook buddies about how great it is to be tweeting about Apple!

In a nutshell, lists are actually more like categories. What you do is you create a list and then add the people who’s tweets you want to appear in the list. So for example you could create one called “family” and then have all your family members’ tweets in there. If you mark it as public, anyone can subscribe to that list so that they too can see all those tweets.

So if you’re, for example, running a podcasting network, all the show hosts could add themselves to one list to make it easier for their listeners to follow them.

That said, the feature is still in beta - and it shows. As far as I can tell, there’s currently no way to delete lists. However, I think that once the feature is out of beta and online groups start to promote their lists, it could be pretty useful.

I know this post is probably a couple of years late by now, but when I reworked my “Made on Linux”-page, I needed a way to display some information only when the user wanted it - without having to have multiple pages to send the user to. In other words, I needed to be able to hide a chunk of text, and then show it when the user clicked on something.

As I am no JavaScript wizard, I originally found this technique somewhere else, and got help from people over at StackOverflow to make it fit my needs. Sadly, I’ve now lost the original source, and Googling has led me nowhere. If the original author reads this, please email me and I will of course attribute you.

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