Archive for October, 2006

Tweaking Firefox 2

Posted: October 26, 2006 in Uncategorized

I came across a nice post at Life Hacker on tweaking the config on Firefox 2 to unveil some features. I like the spell checking in INPUTs. Very handy for blog posts. [tags]firefox[/tags] 

Funny AOL Bounce Message

Posted: October 12, 2006 in Uncategorized

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So, I'm staring at my mouse the other day (a Microsoft optical mouse–blasphemy, I know…) during a bad case of coder's block and wondered what would happen if I pressed on the scroll wheel. In Windows, doing that gives you a fancy way to scroll the screen up and down as a variable speed by [...]

Fun With Google Code Search

Posted: October 5, 2006 in Uncategorized

Google released a really good code search tool. So, of course, instead of using it for something useful I went straight to the fun searches: crap  bumblefuck foo bar baz [tags]google,googlecode[/tags] 

UPDATE: Merry Catmas! Here's more cat pics:               I'll admit I haven't participated in the past years, but this year Catmas is going to take place on this blog. Here's a teaser of what you'll see on Friday: [tags]catmas[/tags]