Archive for November, 2006

Posted in General at 4:59 pm November 25, 2006

I tried for the second time to upgrade to Firefox 2.0. After reading about the lost bookmarks issue, I checked Windows Task Manager to see that Firefox was really no longer running. This time, I didn’t lose my bookmarks. Yipee! Alas, several extensions could not run in v. 2.0:

BBCode
QuickNote
DictionarySearch*

There were some other extensions but I [...]

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Posted in General at 12:33 am November 22, 2006

The past few days, I’ve noticed Firefox on my work and personal computers were incredibly slow. It was worse than dial-up on an ancient computer. I didn’t correlate it with the upgrade to 1.5.0.8 until tonight.
After being frustrated with Firefox being so slow even while scrolling a page, I thought maybe downgrading to the previous [...]

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Posted in General, Wii at 4:04 pm November 19, 2006

It’s funny, I originally had no intention to get a Nintendo Wii this soon. But once it got into my head last nite/this morning to order it from Costco.com when it was launched, I can’t help but feel a sense of disappointment not having it now.
To cope with the loss, I’ve done some research to [...]

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Posted in General, Wii at 10:33 am

Last night, I found out that costco.com would sell the Wii online at 8am. I overslept this morning and by the time (8:45am) I checked the website, which was still opened in my browser, it was sold out.
I wasn’t planning to buy the Wii on launch day but I was at the point [...]

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Posted in General at 9:23 am November 18, 2006

[There are many types of kisses but this post is dealing with romantic kisses.]
Here’s an article from eHarmony called Science of a First Kiss.
This basically sums up the biochemical aspect of kissing:
As one starts to kiss, the nerve endings in the lips become more sensitive. The stimulation causes these nerve endings to fire signals back [...]

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Posted in General, Google, Tips at 6:58 pm November 11, 2006

In my python class, we have a group project that will basically be our homework for the rest of the quarter. Our first assignment, or deliverable, is to provide the design documentation. There are three of us in the group. Since I use Writely for taking class notes, I couldn’t resist asking my group if [...]

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Posted in Coding, Coppermine, General at 4:48 pm

Previously, I would write the xml code for site announcements. Then used a free code that would parse the xml feed into html that would display in my gallery, via anycontent.php.
Today, I discovered an application from Coffee Cup called RSS News Flash that would turn the feed from wherever into a News Flash. It seemed [...]

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