If language is lucid, that is enough.
:: Confucius

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
:: Henry David Thoreau

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
:: Voltaire

To be great is to be misunderstood.
:: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy, and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
:: Don Juan Matus

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
:: George Santayana

Adblock for Firefox

Adblock does just what you might have guessed - it blocks ads. What was surprising was how well it did. In five minutes I had my hotmail page completely removed of distracting useless annoyances. In fact, there's now more room on the page for reading email. What a concept.

A Definition of Tragedy

What could we have done to prevent the shootings at Virginia Tech? Nothing. That's what makes it a tragedy.
What was the reason for this to happen? There is no reason. That's what makes it a senseless tragedy.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
:: William James

Ashes come from burning.
:: G.I. Gurdjieff

Tab Groups - Firefox

One of the most useful new features of Firefox was the concept of tabs and tabbed browsing. Microsoft incorporated this feature in a later browser release. The ability to have multiple sites open without spawning a new window for each one not only eliminated a lot of clutter, but made it easier to move from one site to the other and keep track of all of them.

The Tab Groups extension for Firefox adds another level of organization to the tab concept by allowing you to form groups of tabs. These groups can be tabbed through as well. If you're a power user who needs multiple sites open at the same time you will find this very useful. Maybe you want to research a topic in one group, check the news in another, and keep your lunchtime browsing in a separate group. Just keep in mind that every tab you spawn is taking up a fair amount of memory.

Process Explorer for Windows

When you bring up Task Manager (using ctrl-alt-del) there is a tab showing the processes that are running on your computer. Process Explorer extends this information, first by telling you which program has spawned the process. It then informs you which handles have been opened by a given process. You can also see which dll's and memory-mapped files are associated with a process.

Process Explorer is a handy utility to have in your arsenal when trying to manage your system resources. It's simple, lightweight, and useful.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
:: Aesop

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
:: Plato

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
:: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where's my space?

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows. That's the official line from their website. What the utility does is give you a picture of the files on your hard from a perspective you may have never seen.

Files are color-coded by file type and sized according to file size. This presents an immediate visual representation of what is taking up all the space on your hard drive. Is it all those music downloads? Or maybe the movies you ripped are starting to add up.

Clean up your hard drive

Keeping your hard drive clean is no easy task, even if you are handy with computers. That's where the program Cleanup comes in handy. This is one of the better utilities at rounding up all the useless files on your computer and getting rid of them. I was amazed when it found over half a gigabyte on a drive I thought was already clean. Give it a try.

Message in a Bottle

Hey, Alex, how's it going? Hope you are having a great time in Europa. I don't know if you've tried the irc, but the only time I could turn it on is while you were probably sleeping. I'm going to turn it on tomorrow during the day and Adrienne will check it.

Otherwise no worries. We know you're in good hands and are having a lifetime experience. So don't worry if you can't get a hold of us. We are looking forward to your return and miss you - a lot.

Daddio