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Extending FireFox

December 23, 2005

Have finally got round to installing the Performancing extension to FireFox, and it works a treat! Here’s a snapshot of me using it to write this post. It even drags in your categories and previous entries for you! I did at first find it a little irritating that the editor appears on every tab in your FireFox window, and not just the one you are commenting on, but it is simple enough to drag the editor down to a smaller size.

greasemonkey is another extension, one that allows you to add all sorts of scripts to make life easier. I’m sure most people are well aware of it already. However, the script I really wanted, the inline wikipedia viewer, doesn’t seem to work and just sticks on the loading messages. The page on the UserScripts site says it is broken too. Anyone have any ideas?

Theme disaster

December 21, 2005

Due to a total cock-up on the theme for this blog, I have had to revert it back to the original Beeblebrox one.

Will have my changes back in place sometime tomorrow, hopefully!

Links 21/12/05

December 21, 2005

Google Modules – add functionality to your personalised Google home page
Steve Rubel writes about the Performancing FireFox extension – which from “any page in your browser, just right click and special blog publishing frame opens. Fill it out, add your categories and post.”
Internet cafe bans baseball caps
Meebo: Instant Messenging through a browser. Cool.

Japan ‘groper’ dies after beating

December 21, 2005

From BBC News:

A Japanese man has died after being tackled by fellow train passengers who believed he had molested a woman during the morning rush hour.
The man fled the train at a station in the city of Osaka after a 20-year-old student accused him of groping her.

The 40-year-old was brought to the ground by four male passengers, who included at least one off-duty police officer. He died later in hospital.

Women-only carriages run on some trains in Japan because of groping complaints.

The college student accused the man of groping her on Tuesday, shortly after the train they were travelling in stopped at JR Tennoji Station in Osaka, Mainichi newspaper reported.

He ran away but was chased by four other passengers, who tackled him on the platform. “We are looking into the cause of death and details about how he was overpowered by the passengers,” a police spokesman told the French news agency AFP.

Despite the introduction of penalties and women-only carriages, Tokyo police reported more than 2,000 groping incidents on the city’s trains last year.

Delightful!

WordPress 2.0 Release Candidate

December 21, 2005

Exciting (well, for the likes of me it is…) announcent on the WordPress development blog:

The next release of WordPress is drawing near. Please help us shake out any last remaining bugs by downloading and testing the 2.0 Release Candidate. If all goes well, the Release Candidate will become 2.0 final. We’re almost there. Download, test, and head over to the Beta Forum to let us know if the Release Candidate is ready for prime time.

I installed it as a new blog just to have a look around, and it is pretty good. The main change really is a nice wysiwyg editor for posting:

I’ll certainly be upgrading as soon as the final version is released!

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