Terminally Incoherent

Here is the list of 6 Firefox extensions I could not live without:

1. Adblock - I do not consider Adblock an extension anymore. I feel that this is an essential part of the browser. Adblock is the reason why I refuse to use any other browser ever. This extension allows me to enjoy the web the way it should be - clean, and without blinking banners, and loud annoying flash ads. If you are not using Adblock, you are missing out.
2. Session Saver - this must be one of the most useful extensions of all times (except for the king of extensions - Adblock of course). It will save your browsing session, and restore it next time you open your browser. Have you ever closed the browser window by mistake, loosing your long blog post or comment? Have you ever lost a link to a really cool website because of a sudden crash? If you did, then this is an extension for you. I absolutely love this extension, and it made my life so much easier - I can simply close the browser whenever I want and have all my tabs restored for me, from a cashed version - complete with scrolling, and data entered into text forms. This one is a must-have.
3. Spellbound - spellbound is a spell checker for online text forms. It allows you to check and correct text in virtually any web form. I can’t spell to save my life, so this extension comes extremely handy when I post comments to other people’s blogs, or use online forms that do not have a built in spell-checker. I use it even on sites that provide spell-checking features - because my SpellBound is trained to my style, and contains a custom dictionary of geeky words that I use on daily basis.
4. del.icio.us - as the name suggests this extension allows you to post del.icio.us bookmarks with a click of a button. The dialog box provided by this extension, replicates all the functionality of you get when using the bookmarklet.
5. Gmail Manager - the ultimate Gmail extension. Unlike some other extensions that I tried, this on just works. It always shows the updated state of your inbox, and never “gets stuck” on some rogue email. In addition, it allows you to manage multiple accounts.
6. Greasemonkey - Greasemonkey is one of these extensions that you either don’t care about, or absolutely love. I would die without Greasemonkey. I mainly use it to streamline adding technorati tags to my blogger posts. Until Blogger adds folksonomy tagging, I use a Greasemonkey script to add that feature to my Create Post pages

These are my favorites. Few others that do warrant a honorable mention are ImageZoom, Disable Targets for Downloads and Timestamp.

Sopranos are back! Yay!

First things first - Medow’s strip dance thing scene was definitely to short. Was that a flashback scene or was this new? The whole beginning sequence was kinda funky, mix so I don’t know anymore. I don’t remember seeing it before though, and I can’t google up anything at this moment so I guess this is new. And I want more.

Could someone please explain to me the whole Burrough’s Western Lands quote? It went totally over my head the first time around (mostly due to distracting Jamie-Lynn DiScala’s sexy dancing thing). Burroug’s piece is talking about the 7 souls in Egyptian mythology. Here is the actual text:

The ancient Egyptians postulated seven souls.

Top soul, and the first to leave at the moment of death, is Ren the Secret name. This corresponds to my Director. He directs the film of your life from conception to death. The Secret Name is the title of your film. When you die, that’s where Ren came in.

Second soul, and second one off the sinking ship, is Sekem: Energy, Power. Light. The Director gives the orders, Sekem presses the right buttons.

Number three is Khu, the Guardian Angel. He, she or it is third man out…depicted as flying away across a full moon, a bird with luminous wings and head of light. sort of thing you might see on a screen in an Indian restaurant in Panama. The Khu is responsible for the subject and can be injured in his defense - but not permanently, since the first three souls are eternal. They go back to Heaven for another vessel. The four remaining souls must take their chances with the subject in the land of the dead.

Number four is Ba, the Heart, often treacherous. This is a hawk’s body with your face on it, shrunk down to the size of a fist. Many a hero has been brought down, like Samson, by a perfidious Ba.

Number five is Ka, the double, most closely associated with the subject. The Ka, which usually reaches adolescence at the time of bodily death, is the only reliable guide through the Land of the Dead to the Western Lands.

Number six is Khaibit, the Shadow, Memory, your whole past conditioning from this and other lives.

Number seven is Sekhu, the Remains.

- William Burroughs, The Western Lands

I’m to tired to actually do some proper analysis but I bet this is supposed to be some really deep shit right there. The die-hard Soprano fans should get cracking on deciphering the symbolism here.

I’m guessing this is about Tony’s life falling apart and him slowly dying inside, and getting more fucked up (and thus loosing his souls) or something like that. Although he seemed to really be doing well recently… Maybe this is supposed to be foreshadowing, or whatnot? I don’t know. I’ll leave it to the true soprano-heads to figure this one out.

I know one thing - there is no way Tony is dying. He is the show, so killing him off in the first episode of a new season would be ridiculous. Nice attempt at a cliffhanger, but we know better than this.

One of the most annoying things in the world is a picky fast food customer. I bet you saw one of them at least once in your life. Those are the people who make ridiculously complex orders at Burger King or Taco bell. For example they order a Whopper without mayo, onions pickles and tomatoes. Or a Big Mack without the middle bun… Or a chicken Quesadila without the spicy sauce.

Meanwhile you are on your short lunch break trying to eat something really quick and go back to work. But no… You have to wait 15 minutes, as the picky eater makes up their mind on the order, then changes it, and then complains when they mess up his crazy ass order. And the fast food employees always mess it up - partly because they are not the smartest or motivated folks on the block to begin with (otherwise they would not be flipping burgers) and partly because these orders are plain stupid.

When I go to a fast food place, I’m not picky. Hell, all fast foods sell you garbage. If you want to customize your sandwich go to Subway or something. But when you are at Burger King just picked a numbered combo item, and move along… It’s all the same shitty food anyway.

Dear Earthlink Wireless,

You suck! If you want to stay in this business, please get your shit together. You already lost me¹ as a customer, and I will make sure I tell all my friends and business contacts to stay away from your wireless services.

Let me give you a hint - when you send your customer a new blackberry using next day delivery, that said customer expects the device to work upon arrival. Not 3-5 days later. Not 2 weeks later. Not a month later. We really want to take the device out of the box, and stat using it.

Why is it so difficult to get a blackberry activated on your system? I went through this process 3 times in the last few months, and each time it’s the same old story. After the mandatory 5 day wait, your customer service apologizes profusely, offers me downtime credit and escalates my case. I am told to wait another week. Another week goes by, and my device is still not working. I call you, threaten cancellation. Usually at this point one of your managers promises me to “personally” take care of the case.

This happens every single time!

Is it really that hard to get these thins squared away quickly? Why do you make your customers wait half a month, and make no less than 6 customer service calls just to get their mobile device registered on the network?

On more than one occasion I have been told by your reps, that the communication system you use is really bad and not all the requests go through. I don’t care about that. This is your problem! This is not an excuse. All I need is a working blackberry - I really don’t care how you guys do this. I don’t care about the poor implementation of your systems, or the lack of communication between the departments. If it is so bad, then fix it! I really couldn’t care less.

How can you call yourself a service provider, if you failt to provide me with any kind of timely adequate service. I do not need my blackberry to be activated in April - I need it working NOW! What is this so damn difficult?

I do understand that according to the blackberry warranty the replacement device will be a refurbished one. However, last time I checked “refurbished” in the dictionary it did not mean “broken piece of garbage”. That is exactly what you have sent me 2 weeks ago. The blackberry refuses to sync up with the PC. The only thing your tech support is able to offer me is a new another refurbished blackberry.

I have waited 3 weeks to activate my replacement device. There is no way I’m waiting another 3 weeks again. I had enough of this. I’m switching to Verizon. You people suck.

¹ - when I say me, I actually mean my boss. It is his blackberry, but I figured that this letter would sound better if written in first person. Especially since I am the person doing all the footwork and making all the calls in this case.

Sigh… It seems that Patriot Act is here to stay.

Please excuse my language but the only thing I can say to this is: [click to view]
Fucking ass bonesmen motherfuckers!

But hey, we are much safer now, right? I feel so much more confident knowing that the Thought Police Homeland Security will be there to make sure that people are not watching online porn or that they don’t pay off their credit card bills to fast.

The man says Patriot Act is doubleplusgood so it must be true! And we get new provisions! Wohoo! We can probably expect more of the same in 4 years, unless we get some sane, people in the government. At this pace the bill of rights should be completely dissolved within my lifetime…

The blatant anal rape on freedom continues.

I just want you people to know that if you voted for bush, it is all your fault