Possibly my geekiest post title yet...

The job search is going pretty well. I've had a few people interested in me (after only one actual interview, how's that for efficiency?) and possibly another interview coming up soon. But it's looking like I may well be moving to Adelaide for next year. Le gasp!

Anyways, in the past few days I've been hacking away at a Greasemonkey script for bloglines users. Basically it sets the opacity of feed links based on how many unread items there are in the feed (see screenshot). This came about mostly because it's a feature I had in my own RSS reader, but bloglines kept implementing new features, and I figured it was easier in the long term to just add my own feaure than try and reimplement all of theirs.

It's a pretty simple thing I guess, but I find it useful and felt like sharing. It's not perfect (because hooking into someone else's code is always tough) so if you make any improvements please let me know :)

Oh, and the mapping of unread items to opacity is entirely replaceable if you're happy to replace/edit the function I wrote, those with poorer eyesight or different gamma settings may need to bump up the minimum opacity a bit for comfort...

Download it here, if you like...