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Krumlovský vodácký maraton 2009

Self-Powered Pedal Lights

I have a love of bike lights - as mentioned earlier this week - so it was with considerable interest that I saw this article from Wired on self-powered pedal lights.  These little wonders use the energy generated by your pedaling to power a few little blinkies embedded into the front and rear of the pedal, making you that much more visible to passing traffic.  There are only two downsides (1) the LEDs are red which may violate state laws which sometimes require all forward-facing lights to be white and (2) the pedals themselves are fairly basis without toe-clips or grippies.  Still, a nice idea for the Autumn time when it is often pitch-black before you are even home from work.

Change Safari's default search to Mahalo

I've decided I'm going to try Mahalo out, after I saw Chris Baskind's tweet. I've played with it a little, but it's not my default search - I'm going to test it properly, so now, it is my default search, from Safari (current browser of choice). I couldn't find any howto's on changing the default search in Safari to Mahalo, so here it is:

1. Open Terminal
2. Run: perl -pi -e 's/google.com\/%@\?q=%@&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8/mahalo.com\/Special:Search\?%@=%@&0=00/g' /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari(this should all be on one line within Terminal)

P.S. I take no responsibility if it breaks Safari. If it does breaks, just uninstall and reinstall Safari and all should be fine. If it's not, leave a comment and I'll try and figure that out for you (within limits)