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Enduring philosophies and favorite quotes

“Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?”
“That is the only time a man can be brave.”

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said the hero in the story, ‘it is mightier than swords … i could kill you sure, but i could only make you cry with these words.

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I’m sure you don’t believe a word,
cuz you’ve heard it all before.
And we’re so far from where we were.

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05 December 2006 Tuesday

My Firefox and Thunderbird Extensions 2006 December

Last list for 2006

slated in consumed at 6:07 pm

Firefox 2.0

Essential

  • All-in-One Sidebar — Sidebar control, inspired by Opera’s.
  • Download Statusbar — View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar – without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.
  • Fasterfox — Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.
  • Mouse Gestures — Allows you to execute common commands (like page forward/backward, close tab, new tab) by mouse gestures drawn over the current webpage, without reaching for the toolbar or the keyboard. You can also use click-only “rocker” gestures which are even faster than drawn gestures.

Thunderbird 1.5.0.8

Firefox toolbar
This is what my Thunderbird toolbar looks like. I’m quite pleased with it.

Essential

  • MagicSLR — provides new functions and buttons, to have more comfort to get and send messages. (Get/Send, Get all, Send all, Syncro, Send Later, etc.)
  • Buttons! — Adds buttons to the Thunderbird toolbars such as Next! and Previous! buttons for navigating through all messages instead of just unread ones.
  • Mouse Gestures — Allows you to execute common commands (like page forward/backward, close tab, new tab) by mouse gestures, including “rocker” gestures, without reaching for the toolbar or the keyboard. (ala Opera)
  • Remove Duplicate Messages*”:https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/956/ — If you have duplicate messages (e.g. from merging folders or downloading messages several times) you can use this tool to find and remove.
  • Launchy — enable you to open links and mailto’s with external applications. Both browsers, media players, FTP clients and download managers are supported.
  • View Headers Toggle Button — adds a toolbar button that allows the easy toggling of viewing all message headers.

09 November 2006 Thursday

A little (really not little) rant about (LCD) monitors

And the VTBook graphics card adapter works

slated in consumed at 2:24 am

A couple of weeks ago, a friend was looking at getting a new monitor, which prompted me to look at monitors for myself too…
Sylvia, my 20” Samsung Syncmaster 204t has been absolutely fantastic, but the built-in screen on Danium, my Toshiba Satellite M40 (otherwise a fine machine) is very, very dim especially compared to Sylvia, and bringing up the brightness reasonably to the level I currently have it at, not only remains unpreferably dim, but also washes out the colors.
So while the additional screen space is great and I can keep my menu bar and winamp and a couple other things sitting over there most of the time, it still doesn’t feel like enough, with Sylvia handling all the look-at-worthy stuff all on one screen.

25 October 2006 Wednesday

The Nine

slated in mood, consumed at 3:36 am

I meant to watch Studio 60 (great show); I’m not sure why I ended up watching The Nine instead.
Actually quite a good show.. sort of like Prison Break only… much more accessible and more personal, and less intense in the any-moment-now- someone-might-get-knifed -or-shot -or-lose-a-hand -or-otherwise-die.

It’s about bonds. The bonds you form with other individuals, and how they transcend everything.

19 September 2006 Tuesday

Last Kiss

slated in consumed at 10:20 pm

The boys in The Last Kiss were simple and sad, but their characters were not remotely as ugly as I’ve seen.
Idiots make mistakes. It’s a whole other kind of animal who consciously and repeatedly betrays good and love.

04 September 2006 Monday

House M.D.

slated in consumed at 11:13 pm

‘Recently advised a new show as my background noise as I work.. House has been encouraged to me by several others before.. Finally started it today.

17 August 2006 Thursday

Firefox and Thunderbird extensions, Fall of 2006

slated in consumed at 4:19 pm

I guess this is now a periodic thing I do… It’s thoroughly useful every time I end up having to reinstall or something goes wrong with the app or I want to recommend some extensions to friends.

So here, my current list of Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client extensions:

08 August 2006 Tuesday

slated in consumed, mused at 4:01 am

Watched the Julia Macnamara episode (season 2, ep. 12) of Nip Tuck today.. it’s actually the first episode I had ever seen of Nip Tuck, many many months ago.. probably chanced upon it on TV. I think it’s one of the best episodes.
I don’t feel like writing a lot about it/the show.. It’s a good show, but it’s not a really positive or helpful show, though it’s well-blunt. I have lots of thoughts on it though… on the show.. on the episode.. on Julia and the other characters.
The overview of this episode is that it’s Julia finally recognizing (at least subconsciously.. don’t know what she’ll end up really doing with herself) her own responsibility for her reality. —That’s not to say that she has the perfect husband or most supportive mother/friends/etc… but like most people, she’s underestimated her own role in her life.. her own influence on both herself and on the people around her.

04 August 2006 Friday

Google Talk does voicemail

slated in consumed at 1:45 pm

Get yourself the latest version of Google Talk (currently 1.0.95) from File Hippo and download the Latest Version (upper right corner).

01 August 2006 Tuesday

Song of the day

slated in lyrics, consumed at 5:40 am
Song of the day: The Spill Canvas – The Tide

Heaven’s not a place that you go when you die — it’s that moment in life when you actually feel alive..

Excellent song.. been a while since I’ve heard it.. grabbed me easily again when it came up on random; first time I fully paid attention to it.. Listen to the whole story!

26 July 2006 Wednesday

My new love

slated in consumed at 2:57 am

My mother went out to visit a friend in California last week.. She came back with lots of new things.. and introduced me to a new very good friend…

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