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Firefox image resizing

I spend a lot of time looking at screen mock-ups through my browser, and I’m always annoyed when Firefox decides to resize the image because it doesn’t exactly fit in my viewport. This forces me to click on every image to expand it to the full size. Turns out, you can switch this default.

Type “about:config” [...]

More updaters updating

What is it with these updaters? They seem obsessed with updating themselves…

Saturday Google Potpourri

This message struck me as existential.

Although I suppose it makes sense that the updater knows how to update itself.
I wasn’t sure how to take this ad. Is my search engine trying to tell me something?

I feel old - reason #225

I think twitter is dumb.

(History of blogging via Ken, from ValleyWag, from Alex Haislip)
Update: Peter Chane explained to me why twitter might not be dumb. He feels his online relationships are much richer than his offline relationships (I agree) because it is much easier to stay in touch. Twitter, he claims, when used correctly, actually [...]

Life Skills

I’ve played the violin since age four (although not much in the last ten years). This topic came up the other day on the plane to which my seatmate commented, “violin is a great life skill.” I nodded politely while thinking, “the violin is soooo not a life skill.”
Life skills are abilities and talents that [...]

Missing Julie

My cousin Julie, who battled stage IV breast cancer for two years, moved to hospice care on Saturday after a final chemo regiment failed. She was surrounded by family in her final days and passed away peacefully on Sunday morning. She will be will be greatly missed by all of us.
Julie was an inspiration to [...]

EMI steps up to the plate

EMI, the third largest music label, announced today it will begin selling its entire music catalog DRM free on iTunes. Kudos to the leadership at EMI for taking this huge step forward. Hopefully Steve’s  well articulated argument against DRM will continue to have positive impact on digital music.