So I keep seeing this particularly amusing advert cropping up on a lot of the geekier websites that I read.
I would hold that the advert itself is a pretty reliable IQ test. It
can safely be asuumed that those people who try to click on the menu in
this advert don't have a 140 IQ. Well it made me chuckle anyway.
Continue reading To Use The Internet You Must Be At Least This Smart
How I have managed to survive the long without availing myself of
firefox extensions is clearly a problem that will tax historians in the
years to come. In this vein I present a quick list of the extensions
that I find most useful.
Simple extension that replaces flash animations with a small icon.
Click on the icon to play the animation. Its primary use is to reduce
the impact of all those annoying jamster ads that are constantly
clamouring for my attention.
I'm assuming that everyone is familiar with bugmenot.com
a volunteer-collated database of logins for registration only sites.
The bugmenot extension lets you paste a log-in from the bugmenot
database in a couple of mouseclicks. This sure beats my old way of
pasting urls into bugmenot and then passting the log-in ans password
back out. A massive time-saver.
WebMailCompose
Lets you open mailto links in a webmail service. Defaults to GMail but supports many others.
Ooh, lots of bug-fixes in this release. As the number of feeds I'm
subscribed to has increased so have the number of weird RSS parsing
bugs. Slacker Astronomy
put line-feeds in their enclosures, which is legal but unexpected.
Anyway the major step forward is that I'm now basing decisions on the
filename returned from the HTTP request rather than relying on the url
in the RSS feed. This allows the new version of Bashpodder to handle
all kinds of craziness.
The podcast.log format differs slighlty from the original bashpodder. To be safe you may want to run bashpodder.shell -nograb to write out a new log first time around.
The new script can be found here.
Spent a rainy weekend back home in Manchester. Meanwile it was lovely and sunny down in London. Bugger.
Anyway, my parents and I took the opportunity to go and visit the museum of the Northern Mill Engine Society. I don’t care what anyone says; steam engines are cool.