Safari Bookmark Checker, Hackers & Painters

Safari Bookmark Checker is a free application which runs through your bookmarks, checking if they still point to a live page. Here's the VersionTracker page.

One problem: it doesn't actually work. Presumably the pages it says exist are fine, but it spat out in the “Not Found” list:

• Frank van Harmelen's page, which exists
• gmail and Iomega's home page
• Apple's developer documentation

and stacks of other pages. Ones with fragment IDs seemed particularly susceptible, but it's impossible to guess which failed pages actually don't exist.

So, a warning: use it to produce a list of bookmarks to test, but nothing more drastic than that.

Hackers & Painters is Paul Graham's latest book. Awesome. I'm a couple of chapters through, reading an essay an earlier version of which I've already read (the eponymous essay, in fact), and it's still brilliant — to the extent that I'm considering ordering more copies as a gift. Buy it from Amazon.

Highly recommended!

I've also heard that we've had our paper to ISCIS 2004 accepted. Great news!

Posted at 2004-07-06 12:23:44 by Richard • Link to Safari Bookmark Ch…

XMP through pdflatex

James Howison has been writing for some time about managing papers like MP3s — i.e. with useful, embedded meta-data — and ran across this. Someone has written a pdflatex macro that can write PDF XMP. Awesome.

Here's a direct link.

Finally, we can eat our own meta-data dogfood!

Posted at 2004-07-06 02:37:00 by Richard • Link to XMP through pdflat…