Firefox Add-ons

Firefox Add-ons are awesome.

For blog postings specifically, I love the fact that I have the British English dictionary add-on installed. It spell-checks everything that I type into text boxes (such as the one I'm typing into now).

Other Extensions (which is an Add-on sub-type) that I can't live without are:

  • Google Toolbar, which just makes life so much easier

  • FlashGot, for letting me choose which program I want to use for downloading something

  • DownThemAll!, for letting me download multiple links/elements in a web page

  • PDF Download, for letting me choose between displaying or downloading PDF files when I click on a .pdf link

  • Web Developer, for letting get into the nitty gritty of websites

  • ColorZilla, for letting me identify any colour that I see in the browser window

  • MeasureIt, for letting me measure (in pixels) anything that I see in the browser window

  • Tabbrowser Preferences, for letting me control my Firefox tabs better


Oh, and the Long Titles extension, which lets me read long lines of alternate text (for images), is also useful for websites like xkcd.

Actually, you know what? Firefox itself is awesome :)

Ninety Degrees of Randomness

I didn't think I wanted to start a blog. And then, when I signed up for a Yahoo! 360-degrees account (I'm a long time Yahoo! user), I found that I already had one (as part of the whole 360-degree package). Now this was a dilemma. I don't usually sign up for things I don't use so I went ahead and made a token entry:
So here I am, typing my first blog entry. Do I really expect to maintain this blog and/or use it regularly? No, that is most unlikely. In fact, I probably won't even visit this site very often. I just don't have time for writing blogs and maintaining pages such as these, unfortunately. Such is life.

Still...I might just. Who knows? :)

That, I thought, was that.

And then, while flicking through channels on TV, I watched a bit of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Now, I really like the Terminator series (yes, even part three) but, since Nadia hasn't seen it, I can't talk to her about how cool I think it is. And that's when it occurred to me: when I don't have someone (such as my sister, Maliha) to talk to about the many, many different kinds of movies that I love, I can blog about it instead! (Yes, the word "blog" can be used as a verb). Talking out loud (on the Internet, at least) even though no one might be listening sure beats talking to no one instead. And so I started blogging every now and then on my Yahoo! page.

However, since Nadia I have gone through all this effort to make our own website, it makes so much more sense for us to host our own blogs here (she had a temporary blog elsewhere too). And so here we are.