Return of the Blurbs

Okay, so a while ago I promised a day of blurbs. I got busy and it didn't happen. Today I'm going to make up for it.

First item of the day (chosen completely at random): one of the best posts the onion has ever done. This applies to so much more than television, use this as reference or for fodder anytime some zealot is pushing their cause too much. It was primarily because of this that I stopped touting the fact that I did not have a cell phone (whoops, I guess I just broke that rule). I didn't want to fall into this category.

Here is the post.

Survey says....Sony Sucks.

Hey, most of us have known that for years.

Back to the more relevent point, here is a list of XCP protected CD's that you should send back to Sony or sacrifice in homage to stupidity. Here is an article on their plans for retribution.

Even more new blogger features

Well, as I was posting the last worthless post a few minutes ago, I noticed Blogger has a new feature. You can now moderate comments.

I don't know what I think about this. I guess it is good to add it as a feature, but I'm glad they default it to off, and I don't plan to use it.

I do already receive an email anytime somebody comments on my blog. However, I wouldn't want comments to be delayed because I am too lazy or busy to go read my email.

Ignore me - just testing some more Amazon goodness

Amazon has this associates program which is kind of cool. Nothing really innovative, but it pays you a percentage when somebody buys something thanks to a link of yours. They keep enhancing this in good ways though, making the links more and more useful. Today I am trying out their new hover feature that gives a better preview of the item.

Why am I doing this all here, instead of on one of my other pages? I'm lazy, and just in case you are interested. If not, I don't care, and I'm still lazy.



Unfortunately, blogger won't let me include javascript. Here was the javascript that would have added the new preview to this link:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/s/link-enhancer?tag=musingsonalmo-20">
</script>

Gorillaz on my Mind

Okay, so I actually stole the title from a Blade II Soundtrack collaboration by Redman and The Gorillaz.

However, this is very sweet. Thanks to the BBC, you can watch an entire live set of The Gorillaz performing the Demon Days album. Found once again by my favorite blog, Uneasy Silence.

Latest Microsoft Build Tools for Free (for one year)

Okay, some will say I have sold my soul, because I am promoting development tools from Microsoft, intended to pull even more people to their side. Those people can stop reading now, I really don't care.

For everyone else, Microsoft has done something pretty cool today by releasing for free the express versions of all of their new 2005 development tools. These are the equivalents of the old favorites like Visual C++ 6 and others. I always have these at my disposal via MSDN at work, but this is cool because now I can have these tools for my own personal use at home. Very nice.

Here is a nice blog post describing how and a bit of why they are doing this.

Making Firefox Even More SupaCool

Okay, the screenshot below may turn out a little small, so use your imagination, or figure out how to make it bigger. This may be one of the best enhancements I have seen to Firefox yet. Someone has figured out how to view pages in IE, as a tab within Firefox. This is exactly what Netscape tried to do, but failed miserably in their new browser.



I found this through my new favorite blog, UNEASYsilence. It is an extension based upon the "View in IE" extension that I have used and loved for a very long time. Just like "View in IE" you can specify a whitelist of sites that will automatically be opened using IE, or you can simply right click and tell the site to open in IE, only now, it will open it in a new tab rather than a different browser. Sweet!

Here is why this is better than Netscape. First, it only opens sites that I have specified with IE. When they are opened in that fashion, a little icon down in the status bar changes from the Firefox icon to the IE icon. Now, here is the even better bart. The second you navigate to a different site it switches back to Firefox. That smacks Netscape on its candy ass. Netscape happily continues using the wretched security abyss that is IE.

All in all I am extremely happy with this. I think it is a very clever way to handle this specific type of task. Here is where you can obtain the extension. Note: if you are still running a 1.0x version (which I am), rather than 1.5 beta, there are two extensions you will need to install, rather than just one.