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I have started a group on Flickr called Lego Complaining:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/912544@N23/
It’s open to the public so anyone can join. I invite everyone to come take a
look at it and for all gentle readers to join if they would like to.
Here’s the group charter:
We all know that Lego is possibly one of the best building toys ever made, but
let’s face it - sometimes things go wrong. Some themes and sets are a disaster
(oh, say Galidor or Jack Stone for instance). Sudden color changes and poor
quality control can be a pain. Set inventories can be incorrect just when you
need to count on them.
Well, here’s where KFOLs and AFOLs can come together and have their voice
heard. You can relate your experiences here and post pictures of any problems
you have had with Lego or the Lego company.
It can be very therapeutic to talk things over. Then the healing can begin.
Any and all comments and critiques are welcome. I hope that by creating this
group and directing complaints to it, the overall Lego Community will benefit
and we can help make all AFOL web sites friendlier places to hang out in.
:^)
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In lugnet.db.inv, Dan Boger wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 02:43:06AM +0000, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > In lugnet.db.inv, Jeffery MacEachern wrote:
> > > I was browsing the extensions gallery for the Mozilla Firefox
> > > browser when I came across something interesting. There was an
> > > extension that would add a "track package" option to the right-click
> > > menu, automatically recognizing what courier the tracking number was
> > > from. As I order things from time to time (mainly free(!) samples
> > > of electronics parts), I saw the usefulness of it. I posted this to
> > > .market.shipping because of its general usefulness. However, upon
> > > examining it, I came across another use: looking up Lego part
> > > numbers.
> >
> > Or you could just install the Peeron Firefox extension:
> > http://news.lugnet.com/announce/peeron/?n=28
> >
> > (Still not updated for Firefox 2 though :()
>
> Whoops! You should remind me these things :)
http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/geek/?n=5159 8?p
> Check for an updated
> version now, it should be there and working, I hope!
Woohoo! It's back! Thanks mate 8?)
ROSCO
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 02:43:06AM +0000, Ross Crawford wrote:
> In lugnet.db.inv, Jeffery MacEachern wrote:
> > I was browsing the extensions gallery for the Mozilla Firefox
> > browser when I came across something interesting. There was an
> > extension that would add a "track package" option to the right-click
> > menu, automatically recognizing what courier the tracking number was
> > from. As I order things from time to time (mainly free(!) samples
> > of electronics parts), I saw the usefulness of it. I posted this to
> > .market.shipping because of its general usefulness. However, upon
> > examining it, I came across another use: looking up Lego part
> > numbers.
>
> Or you could just install the Peeron Firefox extension:
> http://news.lugnet.com/announce/peeron/?n=28
>
> (Still not updated for Firefox 2 though :()
Whoops! You should remind me these things :) Check for an updated
version now, it should be there and working, I hope!
Dan
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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In lugnet.db.inv, Jeffery MacEachern wrote:
> I was browsing the extensions gallery for the Mozilla Firefox browser when I
> came across something interesting. There was an extension that would add a
> "track package" option to the right-click menu, automatically recognizing what
> courier the tracking number was from. As I order things from time to time
> (mainly free(!) samples of electronics parts), I saw the usefulness of it. I
> posted this to .market.shipping because of its general usefulness. However,
> upon examining it, I came across another use: looking up Lego part numbers.
Or you could just install the Peeron Firefox extension:
http://news.lugnet.com/announce/peeron/?n=28
(Still not updated for Firefox 2 though :()
ROSCO
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I was browsing the extensions gallery for the Mozilla Firefox browser when I
came across something interesting. There was an extension that would add a
"track package" option to the right-click menu, automatically recognizing what
courier the tracking number was from. As I order things from time to time
(mainly free(!) samples of electronics parts), I saw the usefulness of it. I
posted this to .market.shipping because of its general usefulness. However,
upon examining it, I came across another use: looking up Lego part numbers. The
extension uses Regular Expressions
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions) to recognize the patterns of
different couriers' tracking numbers. I realized that you could just as easily
get it to recognize set and part numbers, and query Peeron for them.
Here's how: (if you don't understand Regular Expressions, don't worry - you can
just copy it down)
(note: all quoted sections are to avoid ambiguity - take out the quotes when you
type it)
*if you don't have Firefox -- get it! (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/)
Trust me - once you use it for a little while, you'll never want to go back to
IE (shudder!)
*install the Track Package Extension
(http://trackpackageextension.com/latest.php)
*restart Firefox
*go to Tools|Addons (menu)
*find Track Package, and click "options"
*Click the Regex tab, and then click "Add new Regex"
*a set of empty textboxes will appear; type "Peeron General" in the leftmost
one, and "[0-9]{1,7}(-[0-9]{1,2}){0,1}" in the rightmost one. This sets it up
to recognize set numbers
*click "Add new Regex" once more, this time entering "Peeron Parts" and
"x{0,1}[0-9]{1,5}([0-9]{0,3}|[(px)|(cx)|c|b|a|p|(bpx)|(apx)|(old)|(oldpx)|(pt([a-z]{0,1}))[0-9]{0,3}[a-z]{0,1}"
respectively.
*almost done; click the "URL" tab, then click "Add new URL" twice. Two rows of
textboxes appear.
*in the first row, type "Peeron General" (important: make sure this is exactly
the same as what you typed on the other tab), then
"http://peeron.com/cgi-bin/invcgis/psearch?query=", and finally "&limit=none"
*in the second row, type "Peeron Parts", then
"http://peeron.com/cgi-bin/invcgis/psearch?query=", and finally "&limit=parts"
*click OK, and you're done!
Now, whenever you see a Lego part or set number, rather than looking up Peeron
and typing it in, etc., just highlight the number (without #, if applicable),
right-click, and select "track package". Peeron will open, and bring up the
results/info page on the set or part.
For the record, I am no Regular Expressions expert, and if someone sees a flaw
in my regexp, or a way to make it better, please reply here with your
correction. However, it has worked for me so far.
I hope you all find this a handy trick, and thanks for taking the time to read
this (rather long) post ;).
~Jeffery MacEachern
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