August 2004
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School Daze
It's not enough that our government wants to mess with the school system, imposing a complicated set of calculations that don't really seem to help all that much. North Carolina also wants to get into the act, by making sure that school doesn't start prior to a particular…
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Flashblock in Firefox
During the process of checking things out recently, I noticed that Shockwave Flash movies had stopped displaying in Firefox at some point. I think it was the loading of 0.9. So I went through the ritual of uninstalling and reinstalling, but it didn't really help. Then I started…
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Presidential Decree
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. Nice. Oh, I'm sure he meant to say something about how they are always vigilant in order to make sure they've thought of everything so that they can defend against…
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Firefox Update
More than one site has mentioned a new point release (0.9.3) for Firefox. While this is apparently the case, the download link on the front page does not point to the setup for 0.9.3 – it points to 0.9.2. Using a little creativity, you can munge the URL…
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Real Player in Firefox
I was wandering the web and came across some content that was presented in Real format, which Firefox didn't seem to support. One problem was that I didn't have any version of the Real Player installed. The other problem was that I didn't particularly want to install the…
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In Flight Entertainment
On recent USAirways flights to the Caribbean, our flights were late – and so the headsets for the in-flight entertainment were provided free of charge. Meanwhile, a return flight from San Francisco to Charlotte last week had a charge of $5 for the headset – on a red-eye…