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A furrier Firefox
Via The Burning Edge:
If you check out the attachments in bug 260590 - Updated Images for Windows Installer and About/Credit windows, you'd see that they've made the Firefox logo a little bit furrier.
Here's the normal and the super-furry version placed side-by-side:
I like it!
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Interesting SMS message from my clinic
Interesting. I got this SMS message this afternoon, apparently from Raffles Medical Group, a local medical establishment with a hospital and a chain of clinics.
Thank u for using our clinic recently. Pls share your feedback to help us serve u better. Would u recommend our services to others? Raffles Medical Management
I'm not sure whether this is legitimate (though it almost has to be), and I wonder who'd reply to a message like this. Should I say "Yes, I would recommend it to my friends and family, but your prices are exhorbitant?" (I visited their hospital's outpatient clinic because it was nearest to my office.)
Back to trying not to scratch my rash-covered body...
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Half-Life 2 RC, could be out in a few weeks
According to this thread over at Half-Life 2 Fallout forums, Gabe Newell has posted saying that a release candidate of Half-Life 2 has been sent to Vivendi Universal, and is pending approval for release. This time around, it isn't a hoax:
For readers doubt the authenticity of this post in light of the gold hoax, the IP does match up this time and many people have received e-mail confirmation from Doug Lombardi and Gabe Newell.
Via Forever Geek.
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Forever Geek, have you read it?
It seems like I am not beyond a little self-promotion now and then. Well, the story goes like this. Paul Scrivens of Whitespace fame also runs Forever Geek, one of those blog/website types that posts news for geeks. Excellent stuff - I'd been reading it in my feed reader for, like, almost since I knew about it, which is around February when the site first appeared. (Of course, when I said "excellent", you will soon realize I have a vested interested in saying so.)
Anyway, Forever Geek was looking for articles so I submitted the search article that was also posted here. That got into Slashdot. Recently, Paul posted that Forever Geek were looking for some new members to join the crew, so I applied - I find these things hard to resist, weirdly. And I got accepted. So now I am a contributing writer on Forever Geek, which I am unashamedly telling you to add to your reading list (Atom feed, RSS 2.0 feed).
This is not my first group blog (well, it is my second). The first was ensight.org from the before time (when most of the bloggers were SitePoint forum staff).
Anyway, read Forever Geek. Yeah.
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Mozilla Thunderbird - changing default email sort order
Update: Trä pointed to the relevant bug: Bug 86845 - Sort order for mail/news not configurable by default.
In reply to my offer of free Thunderbird technical support, I've gotten a few queries from people asking how to get rid of certain annoyances they have with Thunderbird (out of the box), or whether these peeves have been "fixed". Some of these I did manage to resolve, the rest turned out to be also my own peeves with Thunderbird that I didn't realize I had until I was asked.
One reader asked:
Is there any hidden pref, or any way to make EVERY imap folder sort by Date with newest at the top, instead of the default which is newest at the bottom?
Exactly the same problem I had (I have 7 IMAP email accounts in Thunderbird at work), exactly the same problem I had tried to solve a long while back (to no avail). I've checked Google, Bugzilla, and Thunderbird's pref.js but these didn't turn up anything useful. It can't be true that no one else finds this a problem. If you know that this can be changed somewhere or has already been logged into Bugzilla, let me know by leaving a nice little comment.
Coincidentally, on the same day, a colleague asked me how to sort messages in a folder by thread and then by date. Which of course can be done by clicking on the "Thread" icon (click it again if the chronological order is not in the direction you want). But this also only applies to a single folder which is a pain in the ass if you have to do the same for each other folder.
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