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Some more random things I’ve been meaning to mention

1. The Cost Of Trains
2. Skype Must Be Easy
3. Keep It Up!
4. Miss You
5. A4E Are Awful
6. A Quick Comment
7. Clear About Nuclear
8. New GMail Interface
9. The Music Business Continue To Be Idiots
10. Free Wifi On The Move
11. Right, Just Post

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I had a few things I came across today yesterday (damn my tardiness) which almost made me post. Individually they probably didn’t tip the balance in favour of actually putting in the effort but together they just about do. So here goes a collection of interesting and not so interesting things, which I may or may not comment on, as have occurred to me throughout today.

Well, it’s become so long I thought I’d add a nice Table of Contents, just because I can

1. Microsoft Catches Up With The 21st Century
2. How Now Brown Cow?
3. Ed Looks Behind The Curtain
4. Logitech Buys Slim Devices
5. Music Industry Still Annoying Idiots
6. Last.fm Search Greasemonkey Script Updated
7. Tufty Is Not Evil

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I agree with pretty much every word. To be fair, at least Asa has called for comments. Well, these are my initial thoughts on Firefox Beta2’s theme (and a couple of other things)…

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I quite like Lifehacker because they pretty often offer useful tips (though their obsession with “getting to done” is quite wearisome for those of us who don’t work that way). One of the things Lifehacker has given me is some quite cool software through their “download of the day”. Today’s download of the day is a Greasemonkey script to try and catch those occasions in GMail when you hit send having forgotten to actually attach the all important attachment. Thing is, I’m actually the author of that script (with a large nod to Jonathon Brodsky who wrote the original). Fame at last! Now I’ll just have to deal with all the inevitable bug reports…

I wrote my first Firefox extension today. Well, I say wrote. I more or less based it on another one but that’s often the best way to start learning. Basically I wanted a couple of buttons to do a couple of fairly simple things but I couldn’t get Customizable Toolbar Buttons to work (well, I could, but had issues with the buttons not actually wanting to consistently show). So working from Simple EMButtons (because it does something as simple as add a couple of buttons—see the connection) I grabbed a GUID and wrote my own. It wasn’t really that difficult (along with the how to do it docs, some help and some guidance).

There doesn’t really seem much point in releasing it properly though, as it’s a fairly specialised thing (oh, all right. If you have Firebug [and want a button to toggle disabled/enabled], Accessibility Extensions [and want a button to toggle the toolbar] and want a button to change the title of the current tab, then my extension is here [incidently the button icons are simply taken from the Durango Research set from IconBuffet])