It’s been a long time since I’ve had some fun on my own website. So over the weekend I transplanted a nice last.fm cover art widget and added yet another navigation element for the most useful stuff on the site.

Since it is my personal site I went a bit overboard. It’s a nice demo for showing how much Firefox 3 improved. Apart from rendering in higher quality (anti-aliased rounded corners, amazing SVG renderer, filtering of scaled images) it’s also way faster. Just head over to the frontpage and compare

The sliding effect, called kwick (web 2.0, you know) has been a magnet for the javascript library moo tools for me. I’m happy somebody ported it over to the more human-approachable jquery library too.

For people needing the convenience of the great Clipperz password manager I wrote about earlier but have the paranoia threshold set further up, you’ll be happy to hear the server side is also available, under the GNU AGPL (haven’t actually looked at it yet). So now you can run the storage server yourself too.

Thanks mostly to the work of the brave italian pixelpusher Lapo Calamandrei, the gnome icon theme is getting close to full coverage of the naming spec. Thank you Lapo, you’re a rock star!

Over the past few days (maybe weeks) I’ve been writing a tool to check icons against light/dark background and coverage against the trunk version of the name spec. It still has a few issues, but it’s doing most of what I wanted it to.

• Icon Naming Spec Coverage Tool – Javascript required.