A sincere and heartfelt thanks

It was my 34th birthday yesterday. I wasn’t planning to do much for it, but I woke up to a post on Macdrifter declaring it Terpstra Day in honor of my birthday. I can’t tell you how much that meant to me. I also can’t tell you how much it meant to me that a slew of other blogs picked up on it and carried it on, nor can I truly express my gratitude for the number of Twitter, Facebook and direct email messages I received wishing me a happy birthday and thanking me for all of the… personal

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Systematic is go

Systematic–my new podcast on 5by5–launched today. The first episode (with Mike Schramm) was recorded a couple of weeks ago, but was a little delayed in making it live. It’s up now, and I’ll be putting up new episodes on Tuesdays from here on out. I’d love any feedback, ideas or angry letters. You can leave comments here or contact me directly if you have something to say! podcast, systematic

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searchFocus, the most useful bookmarklet I’ve ever made at 3:21am

Ok, so this is the only bookmarklet I recall making that early in the morning, but it’s still useful if you have a browser setup at all similar to mine. When triggered, this bookmarklet finds all input elements on the page, sorts out the text/search types, runs them through a few regular expressions to find the first one that seems a likely candidate to be the main search field and then focuses it. It’s not perfect, but it works pretty well across the board (and without loading any… bookmarklet, javascript, scripting

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