Archive for August, 2006

Firefox: Customizing the way it looks

August 31, 2006

Lifehacker has an excellent post on customizing Firefox, and making it more personal, by modifying the userChrome.css file. Not as hard as it sounds, really. Generally it’s a matter of finding the file and pasting any pre-configured changes in to the file. I’ve included the ones that I’ve used on my home [...]

Windows Live Writer

August 15, 2006

Just finished downloading Windows Live Writer and thought that I would give it a spin. From what I can tell it’s going to take a little getting used to, as I’m used to the excellent Performancing extension for Firefox.
As usual, I’ll try it out for about 7 days and then see if it’s something [...]

New Phone

August 15, 2006

A few months ago, my Nokia 3100b phone cracked it’s display somehow. It seemed to continue working, so I figured I’d just forego using the phonebook, and keep using it until it died, and then I’d get a new phone. Until last week, when my wife dropped it and killed it.
So on Saturday [...]

Hello world

August 14, 2006

Okay, so this is the first post in what I’m intending to be a wildly popular blog about geek life in Vancouver. Uh, yeah. Actually, I’d be happy if someone else stumbled across it and actually subscribed to the feed. Oh well. On with the posts…