Google Safe Browsing Firefox Extension Outside of U.S.
If you’d like to use Google’s Safe Browsing Firefox extension but you don’t live in the U.S., you might have thought you were out of luck. However, as it turns out, you can simply use Google’s translation services as a poor man’s proxy service by translating the extension’s page from English to English. Hey, it worked for me.
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Another Performancing Test Post
Performancing appears to add a tab character at the beginning of both the Title and the Body of posts I create using it. I just upgraded to the latest 1.0.1 version - this is a test to see if that’s been fixed.
[Update] Well it’s not a tab character, it’s 12 spaces. They don’t show up on the page when you view my blog in a browser, but they do show up in the WordPress editor, and other places (like email notifications when someone comments). This is a pretty big bug that they need to kill ASAP.
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Holidays!
There’s nothing quite like having holidays during the Christmas season. It’s been 4 years since I’ve been able to take any time off at this time of year, so I intend to really enjoy myself. Josh is already getting used to the idea that I’ll be home for more than a couple days, and has already roped me into watching “Wiggles Space Dancing” with him this morning. Can’t beat cuddling with they boys in the big brown chair though! (and the Wiggles aren’t really that bad…)
FolderShare is Damn Cool
I finally got FolderShare working, allowing me to synchronize files from another computer, and damn it’s cool. My buddy Mike and I are sharing a couple of folders, and right now my computer is dutifully downloading everything from his folder and simultaneously offering up everything from my folder to him, although he hasn’t started his download process.
From now on, every time he updates any files in his shared folder, I will get those updates. Too cool for school. If you haven’t checked it out, this one’s definitely worth a look. It’s free, and works great. Microsoft thought it was worth a look, then they bought it!
My Most Popular Post - Eye Twitch?
A few weeks ago I installed a WordPress plugin that will list the most popular posts on your blog based on post views. The numbers it reports are as of the time it was installed. My most popular post was one I almost didn’t write. I was experiencing an eye twitch for a prolonged period of time, and I felt the need to vent about it a little bit. As it turns out, in the past three weeks, that post has been viewed more than 1380 times, which is more than double that of my next most popular post. The Eye Twitch post also has 128 comments on it as of the time I write this, which is far more than any other post here.
This makes me wonder if there’s a real need for people with eye twitches to have a site that would allow for a community to thrive where people can support one another and help to collect information about this affliction. Since I really have no desire for this blog to become a touchstone for the eye twitch community, it makes sense to try to redirect the energy that is going into all of the wonderful comments on that post to a more appropriate forum. I’ll have to work on that.
What strange things we learn when we start posting personal gripes for all to see! 
