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One-click delete in Gmail, thanks to GreaseMonkey
Thanks to GreaseMonkey and this nifty user script from Anthony Lieuallen, deleting emails in Gmail got much easier and less iffy (there were times when I selected "Add Star" when I really wanted to "Move to Trash").
Oh yes, that's Trackback spam.
What other neat GreaseMonkey stuff did I miss?
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Mr Ruderman has switched
Jesse Ruderman: Switching from Movable Type to WordPress. Gotta upgrade to WordPress 1.5 soonish.
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What's up with Stop-Sign and Firefox?
I was browsing the documentation for the awesome Web Developer Toolbar extension today and for some reason noticed a Google ad that was headlined "Get Mozilla Firefox". It probably caught my eye because Firefox ads on Google were new to me and I wondered if it wasn't some sort of sfx initiative of some sort.
I spotted the ad on this page (will not necessarily appear for you, of course, since Google rotates ads - try surfing around the documentation pages if you're interested in seeing the ad for yourself).
Here is the ad itself (it's the bottom one). Er, www.stop-sign.com?
The ad brings you to this landing page (incredibly small screenshot below) which apparently is part of an ad campaign of eAcceleration to promote its Stop-Sign product (which from what I understand is some sort of virus scanner cum spyware remover).
Well, they seem to be blatantly riding on the coat tails of the Firefox name. And they even offer Firefox (a firefox.exe file) for download which I just don't have the guts to try. And their message is ambiguously misleading enough, seeming to convey the idea that Firefox is a product of eAcceleration.
If you are new to Firefox and eAcceleration, you will be offered a Stop-Sign computer protection package with the Firefox download. Please use it to make sure your computer is virus, spyware, and adware-free.
Very scammy. I don't know if anything should (and could) be done about this, but this is surely an unpleasant and rather underhanded way of online advertising. Whether the authorities (er, Mozilla Foundation) should be alerted is something I'm not really sure of...
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50 Gmail invites - open to public soon?
Would you look at that? Google has given me 50 Gmail invites to give out. I'll bet everyone else with a Gmail account would have a whole bunch of them too. This reeks of either a stress test (though I can't really think of anyone who hasn't got a Gmail account by this time) or a public release of Gmail soonish.
And for those of you who wrote to ask if I was OK, thank you for your concern. I'm rather fine, not doing too well balancing work, writing, and a World of Warcraft addiction. I'll be blogging more once I submit my final draft, but before that, blogging will remain sketchy.
Oh, has any Community Champion got their autographed Firefox T-shirt yet? I haven't heard anything from sfx, but then again, I haven't really been keeping up.
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WoW Rogue video - killing the Ironforge bankers
World of Warcraft servers are down for maintenance today, so I get time to blog a little and read forum posts. Check out this Rogue video - Killing the Ironforge bankers thread (and the video of course). It's cool being a rogue.
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