Remove Horizon (Dynix) automatic refresh

A Tech article with View Comments posted 26 September 2008.
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I find the automatic refresh on my seminary library’s catalog really annoying. I like to open up lots of tabs of results and then evaluate them later. Horizon (Dynix) doesn’t let me do that – those tabs auto-refresh to the main search page after 6 or 7 minutes. I can always press the back button on each of those tabs, but it shouldn’t have to be that way.

Thus, I decided to learn Greasemonkey scripting. There’s a great online book to help you learn, and Greasemonkey is very intuitive.

The onLoad attribute of the body tag calls “setTimer(); setfocus();”. setTimer() is the culprit. So here’s the one-liner to get rid of that (and keep setfocus()):

document.body.setAttribute('onload', 'setfocus();');

Quick and easy. You can install my very first Greasemonkey script here: dynix_norefresh.user.js. You will, of course, need the Greasemonkey Add-on for Firefox.

Baby Registry at Target

A Family article with View Comments posted 20 September 2008.
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In case anyone is excited about buying us stuff, you can now shop our baby registry at Target.

No, I have no shame. Why do you ask?

Ultrasound Pictures!

A Family article with View Comments posted 3 September 2008.
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Jennifer just had her 20 week ultrasound, and our baby is healthy and happy! We had a bunch of pictures taken, but here are the seven best in a public album (cropped for privacy reasons). We’re waiting until the birth to know whether Baby is a boy or a girl.

Edit: Moved pictures to my own domain and added a few more I found.