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May 21, 2005
George Galloway and falling standards of Washington
Favorite quote
"I know that standards have slipped over the last few years in Washington but for a lawyer you are remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice."
The most entertaining event of past week was the live coverage of George Galloway's testimony in the senate. In the same chamber from where Joe McCarthy harranged the world, Galloway turned the tables around on the senators and called their documents schoolboy howlers. Check the BBC and Political Affairs for quotes. Video excerpts in Quick time format. And the best from the land of freedom where the official Senate website declines to publish the testimony.
Of course all is not rosy. There must be something if your name appears with Charles Pasqua (notorious corrupt French politician) and a bunch of Russian mafia members. Read Christopher Hitchens profile.
Posted by Hazi at 09:31 AM | Comments (0)
May 10, 2005
Why Firefox?
A friend asked me why don't I use Safari, isn't good enough for browsing. Well Firefox is a reincarnation of Netscape which takes us to the age of Aquarius. The thing is Firefox is more than a browser, with use of extensions it can become a powerful tool for all your web surfing needs.
- RSS feed - Safari has just introduced the feature with Tiger. Even though Spotlight is good enough reason to buy Tiger, I really don't want to wait too long for these kind of features. Check out my screencast
- Cross platform - Need I say more.
- Extensions - There a more than 150 extensions available for download. I have installed the following on my system.
- Password Composer - A bookmarklet generates an unique password per site. You just have to remember one master password, and the bookmarklet will generate a unique password which you don't have to remember. It requires Greasemonkey (see below)
- Google Bar lite - Same as the one for IE. With one major added benefit, all your search result will open up in a separate tab
- Better search - It gives "Site Info", "Wayback Machine" links and a Quick Preview feature to the search results.
- View formatted source - Displays formatted and color-coded HTML source. You can fold/unfold/hilite block elements (table, tr, td, div, span,...)
- Greasemonkey - Customize the sites you visit. Using the extension, one could, for example, jump directly to "printer-friendly," and ad-free, stories on news sites. See full listing
Posted by Hazi at 05:19 PM | Comments (1)
Need proof against petty discouragements
The secong time in a year I got stuck with the flying saucer. Several reinstalls later my Powerbook is going back to Apple.
From The riddle of the sands by Erskine Childers
"The main issue was not seriously in question, for I had signed on in the Dulcibella (read Apple Mac for me) for good or ill; but in doing so I had outrun myself, and still wanted an outlook, a mood suited to the enterprise, proof against petty discouragements."
For more see My log book entry
Posted by Hazi at 11:45 AM | Comments (0)