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links for 2007-01-27

Bug 357852 - nglayout.debug.disable_xul_cache causes Firefox to use 100% of the CPU Developing extensions for Firefox can be a bit of a pain in the butt (tags: mozilla firefox xul) Vertical Split Patch for GNU Screen A patch for...
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Misspelling my name

Back when I was in college, I got a piece of mail addressed to me with one of the funniest misspellings of my name that I had ever seen: "March Adranowitz". Today, someone mentioned me by name in a bug report and referred me to...
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Web serfer

Recently, I've noticed that 99% of the comment spam on my blog is this single message (from a bazillion different email addresses of course) Actually i am not an active serfer, but this this site is really great, i will spread it...
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WordPress 2.1 released

Read all about it. I was using Wordpress via the Subversion 2.0 branch so I had to do: svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.1 and then clean up a few spurious merge conflicts. Interestingly, while writing...
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24″ monitor

This morning was strange because when I got to work I was greeted by a new HP LP2465 24" widescreen LCD monitor. This was strange because I had not asked for a new monitor. Most of my colleagues also had new monitors, so it seems...
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Battery

The battery on our alarm went low a few days ago. The replacement that I ordered from Pacific Battery Systems arrived today. It took all of about 10 seconds to put it in. Which is funny to me, because the manual for the alarm had...