... as a guide: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Building_an_Extension How hard could it be? It wouldn't be very useful for general web usage, which is probably why I can't find anything like this on the interwebs; it'd be useful for internal environments, though, when switching between QA stacks or between QA and dev and production stacks. Less typing and...

Five topics

...Just because they're toys, doesn't mean they can't be useful! 3. Lovely people of the interwebs who exist in my computer. January... source - for me - of small world stories. LJ is a useful tool for this, for it makes it easier than it usually is ... that I can learn to mostly agree or disagree with - both are useful - than the wishywashiness of Zagat's communal poolings and its abysmal editing...

Friday June 26th 2009

Welcome to firefly_signal , wherein we hope to link fan activity and news from across the fandom in one location. We hope you find this newsletter useful and spread the word. News Firefly 'terrible acting' rant FanFic: [LiveJournal] Standalone: The Five Times Mal and Simon found River and Jayne Creepifying (And The One Time They Got Over It) by idyllictorture , Jayne/...

Stuff that's rattling around in my head...

... to power a small point singularity cannon. You can wire a magic mirror into a traditional computer network and have it act as the majordomo. And what items can't be broken down, are still useful by themselves. The PrinsTech Royal Planner, for example, is best described as a Rolodex, Facebook, Wikipedia, Page Six, Kindle mashup. There's actually only one Royal Planner, which exists within a star....

... in the back). I was initially going to suggest that if you see a stack of CWPs around, and they've been distributed just in time for Pride Weekend, you should take them and turn them into something useful, like recycling; but that would not be playing the Seattle liberalthink game, that would be censorship, right? So don't do it -- but don't pick them up either. And don't pick up "Skill Shot" ...

... bringing up lots of superfluous results, and suggest that a good search engine will be able to read you mind and find only the search results that happen to match with what you were thinking but didn't say. And yet, trying Bing out myself, I find I get way more junk results than I get with Google. It's phenomenally hard to actually filter through and find the useful results with a Bing search.

... to have the vowel set of ancient Proto-Mayan on tap? I think not. But I got to thinking--what would constitute a historical linguistics emergency? In what situation might it actually be useful to run through all six steps of the comparative method from memory? I'm picturing a terrorist situation where the code sequence for defusing the bomb depends on being able to reconstruct the set of ...

Twitter Update!

... he was. For this, I hated her. # 12:29 Dictator: A politician whose term in office exceeds his popularity. # 12:48 RT @TheOnion: Twitter Creator On Iran: 'I Never Intended For Twitter To Be Useful' bit.ly/IaR6D # 19:26 I'm really hoping this external drive isn't about to go to bit heaven. It's backed up and under warranty though. Could be worse. I'd know. # 19:27 I would...

Hank Watches Television 79 : The Dirt

... there . The opening stanza to this  poem popped into my head while I was making supperm, and the rest coalesced soon afterwords. This, needless to say, is a facsinating and potentially quite useful development in my creative process. Perhapsd my creative juices, stymied by my ennui and inertia for so long, have begun to drop entire poems, fully formed and wet with life, into my consciousness...

La nuit commence ici

... to my myriad betas, including sandwich_armada for the musicky help and sunsetmog , softlyforgotten and heartequals again. Special thanks to olivia_circe and sunsetmog for useful research books! Any remaining inconsistencies or errors are all my responsibility. As far as possible, historical accuracies have been maintained. Please let me know ...