Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Installing Extensions for Firefox on a Linux Desktop


If you arrived at this post from a Google Search, first of all, stay cool: A crowbar will not help you install the Web Developer extension for firefox.

Breathe in. Affirm: An invisible firefox process is running on my system. Breathe out. Breathe in. The invisible process is blocking the extension from being installed. Breathe out.

Slowly open your eyes and start your terminal in a mindfully alert frame of mind. Kill all firefox processes. Now, run firefox. Behold: the power of...froggle.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

still life with contrast.






Click here to read the inspiration behind this cartoon.

Friday, March 10, 2006

Blog 2.0



To commemorate one year of blogging, I am pleased to announce the merger of Blogger and Me with Hilary's Interesting Sketch Diary.

Behold the power of slack...okay, after I eat this muffin.

Monday, March 06, 2006

technically naieve

"We-e-ll", she naively thought {with the beginner's mind of a first-time Windows user}, "this is probably a good time for me to learn patience. So, instead of beating the desk with my fists, I'll simply use the time to click on "Windows Media Player" and listen to some music while waiting for my Word file to unfreeze".

Saturday, March 04, 2006

...

And then I answered my cell from a table on the eastside, smearing butter and stuffing from the rotisserie hen into my keypad.

Hello? I said, picking at the bird. Hold on. Let me switch to a headset. I need my hands to eat.

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

"Nested tables" sounds like something that lives under the deck in the country : Look, Emmit, we got to get rid of those tables before they start to nest.