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Recentyl, it appears Javascript has been a bit broken in my Firefox installation. Today I realised that Firefox has been updated to 3.6, so i got the update, knowing that IE-Tab would not be available, but that there is a new adin, called Coral IE Tab which is compatible with Firefox 3.6, and so I can both use firefox, and websites that insist on Internet Exploder.

Amazon is not the only place to buy books from.

Whilst google product search allows me to easily find prices for products at loads of places, shopping for books used to be a bit of a grind.

For the last couple of years, when i am buying books I have been using Book Brain to search for the cheapest provider – and with many places now not charging for delivery, its almost a case of just buying each individual items from the cheapest place.

The following image is provided to clarify the difference between geek, nerd, dweeb and dork.

Yes, I would rather you call me “Geek” than any of the other options.

(Now I think my wordpress is updated, its time to clear out some drafts…)

earlier I said

I have done my almost annual update of wordpress. On this occasion, i backed up, deactivated all plugins and used the auto update. i then tried to reactivate all plugins, this muked up something behind the scenes, so i disabbled them all by renaming the plugins directory! when i activateded them one by one, and updated a few it all worked.

Oh, and i have learned that i have the “other” ad rotator plugin. but that is fixed now too.

If anyone sees anything that is broken, please do let me know!

and then it all went horribly wrong, so i had to go back to my Database backup from this morning.

“Now Reading” plugin appears to be broken in Wordpress 2.9, so I am now using “Now Reading Reloaded”

so i think it all works now. however do let me know if you think other wise!

Amusing/Interesting video

0:22 made me laugh, whilst 0:24 was rather close to home….

And, with the content it has, it is of course an advert, in this case for the following book….

We are currently embracing Office 2007 at work. Its an odd experience. whilst i really like some of the functionality in Outlook, and don’t really feel too offended by outlook and word, it doesn’t help that I don;t know where absolutely everything is. There is definitely a learning curve….

I currently wonder how much of an advantage it can be. Which just about sums me up currently, laziness rocks.

Is there much advantage in the new .docx file format? do I lose much by remaining backwards compatible? hmmm. choices, choices.

I have been using Colibri for a while to make it easier to open new programmes. Insead of using my mouse to hunt around the start menu, or having 1001 shortcuts on my desktop, I can now hit CTRL+Space and then start typing the name of the program i want to launch.

Today, after a brief look at the Tips&Tricks for Colibri and afetr downloading SQLLite Browser I have added a new shortcuts folder, and now can make links to frequently visited places on the companies different file shares.

Makes my life easier.

The standard view of gmail was not working in firefox. I was not too fussed immediatly, as I have better things to do and the HTML version was working… However, looking for the answer via Google led me to a forum and the advice

Clear your cache. Tools –> Options –> Advanced –> Network, Clear Now button.

Which did the trick for me.

Apparently, Windows Vista Source Code has been leaked. Geddit!?!

Well, it made me laugh.

I found a link to a review of 5 Mind Mapping Applications I have been giving Free Mind a run for now. Just to save another source of paper, now i can make notes, and use mind mapping as an early stage in writing new documents.

Incase you are wondering, Freemind is getting test driven first.