Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

Overridding Firefox 5.0 Add-Ons Compatibility Check

I had a quick use case at work where I needed to use some older Firefox extensions that were incompatible with Firefox 5.0. The best resource I found was here from Firefox Extension Guru, but the only thing I’ll add below to these steps is that you need to of course use the correct version [...]

Comcast Quality Control

Jimelene > Hello, Reid. Thank you for contacting Comcast Live Chat Support. My name is Jimelene. Please give me one moment to review your information. Jimelene > It is a pleasure to have you on chat! You can call me Alfie.

Gotta love the Internet

Just watched a live streaming feed on cnn.com as Chilean miners were extracted one by one from the mine they were trapped in for nearly 2 months.

Chuck Grassley on Twitter

Wilmot linked me to Chuck Grassley’s twitter account. He’s a 76 year old Republican Senator from Iowa.  I’m convinced he’s sending these tweets himself. An intern, while likely capable of using twitter, would never construct messages like this. I really like thinking that he’s wandering around Iowa using a smartphone to send these messages. A [...]

Foursquare! Down!

Cool!