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Firefox 3.6 themes and autocomplete

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:14:18 -0500

Okay, so it turns out you CAN use themes with 3.6 — the theme just has to be correctly updated for it. Simply version bumping does not work for this version, it seems.

Phew!

Oh, and since 3.5, the auto-complete behaviour changed, so for those of you who liked browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped, you may want to read about changing automcomplete behaviour in Firefox 3.5/3.6.

That is all for now.

Firefox 3.6: Goodbye, themes; R.I.P.

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:42:15 -0500

Just a quick note:

I've upgraded to 3.6 on my main system, and again, while most extensions work, a few still do not and I'm waiting on them to be upgraded. The biggest change, though, is that themes no longer work (even if they lie about their compatibility); Instead, there are "personas", which work like Chrome's "themes": They're basically background images, which you can switch between instantly.

Which look good often depend on your configuration, but I've managed to find a few that I like and work well with my layout. However, this doesn't stop it from reminding me of the infamous Hotbar infection for IE. (With notes that all you need to do this in IE is to use TweakUI - at least, until Vista/IE8, which I don't know if they have any such settings.) While this change makes it easier to develop a look for Firefox, it does drop the overall customizability of the look a whole lot.

Goodbye, themes. Rest in peace.

Suggestive advertising, anyone?

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:36:55 -0500

This was supposed to be posted a while ago; Not sure why I didn't, but I couldn't pass up on this anyway:

http://www.naturellementpulpeuse.fr/

If you don't know French, here's a quick guide to the ad in question (and you don't need to know french):

Click on "Entrez ...", then the top of fridge, then the 60 second version.

It's... been a while.

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:55:37 -0400

Time flies. I really don't know what it is, but it seems I've little time for anything these days. I guess it's more a matter of prioritising things, and I haven't been doing that; Problem is, that's a task on it's own. I figure, though, people deserve an update, especially a certain someone out there who doesn't seem to be fairing too well and probably doesn't have the time to contact my directly. My heart goes out to you and I hope things get better... and yes, I'm na?vely thinking they will.

Well, let's see - my posts have been far and few between, as well as rather bare. I'm going to take what is probably going to be a few hours, and try to give some detail on what's going on. Knowing myself, though, I'm probably going to get tired of it halfway through or forget things I wanted to mention.

On the job front, I now have no job. My time as a casual ended in mid-may, and for the next month I was working as a contractual worker. Thankfully, I was still able to apply for EI and that seems to have gone through without a problem - either I applied correctly, or they were able to mistake my misunderstandings. Either way, seems to be just fine there. I just have to keep in mind that EI's only going to pay me if I can prove I've been trying to get a job - sometimes I get lax about these things for over a week, and it seems that's not going to be an option ;> It's possible that I get a permanent position at my old job, though, which is kind of interesting. I have mixed feelings about that, honestly, but I'm not sure how in-depth I want to go about that in public - maybe I'll write another protected entry for that.

I've been trying to add some content to my forum - hopefully I'll get a few more interested people. I'm not certain whether I want to keep the politics (et al.) sections hidden to members only, though; I'm thinking of opening them up until I can get some regular (if sparse) traffic. By the way, I've resolved the spam issue for the time being. Until the Akismet plug-in for punBB matures, I won't be using it: It apparently does not have any setting other than "ban immediately" - I don't care how easy it is to unban people, I don't think they deserve to be banned outright. It's bad enough that punBB claims that hidden forums are "invalid" (I wish that were an option, but I may just manually hack that in myself) and don't suggest that maybe you need to log in.

I've just updated my copy of Windows Live Writer; Functionally it seems mostly the same, but they've added their fancy UI to it now. Seems a slight bit more sluggish due to that, but that may also be because I had to lower my hardware acceleration setting (My mouse does not move if I have hardware display acceleration set to the maximum. Not sure why, and I really don't know what caused it. I may have to get myself a new... uh... sheesh, I don't know. I'm at a loss on this one.). Sadly, my hardware woes don't end there; About as recently (But no, not simultaneously) my DVD drive has decided it no longer wants to eject - and before you try to help me with it, I'm convinced that it's a mechanical issue; It seems to be the same problem that "Drive X" (for lack of a better name) had: when the tray attempts to eject, something gets in the way and instead it just goes "clunk" and fails to move forward. This one doesn't have a pop-open door, though, so the only way I'll be able to inspect it is to open it up. For the curious, I have a LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S finally showing it's true colours, and it's way off the warranty (not sure it ever really had one anyway).

Interestingly, it seems I didn't post on my birthday. Hmm. Don't remember what I got; I'm sure I updated my wishlist, though. Speaking of getting things, ... wait, I did mention the camera. One thing I didn't mention was the 160 GB USB drive I got (Wee~!). I'm actually planning on taking the drive out and replacing it with a 20 GB, and using that; The 160 GB will likely go either in my PC, or in a future NAS that I'm planning to build when I move out (or right before, since that might help with moving). On that subject - I'm now the one that has no job, and now Eth has to put up with me :P

On the technology/news side of things, ignoring the over-hyped piece of crap that is iPhone, Apple has announced that it will offer non-DRM music in it's iTunes store at a higher price - but I think what's more interesting is that EMI says people love it. I'm reading between the lines when I say this, but, I get the impression Steve Jobs is doing this intentionally as to try to give DRM a shove away from domination. If so, I've more respect for the man than ever, to be so bold as to actually consider the option.

(Certainly more respect than I've got for a particular worker from Futureshop, at any rate, but I'm going to blog about that only later once I've got a response from him about his blatant goof - much to Futureshop's shame I might add - and know whether or not he was letting himself get hot-headed on the subject.)

Among my other findings on the Internet are an interesting view on global warming, which if you are about to watch I strongly suggest you watch all videos posted by the same person (It really doesn't make sense to only get half his opinion - people are entitled to correcting themselves, as the above paragraph demonstrates ;>).

And finally, one last thing and this one's from the paranoia department: Why use email encryption? It's an interesting view on e-mail encryption, though personally I believe that encrypting every e-mail might be a tad overdone - but then again, since once you've got it set-up it's mostly a "fire and forget" type of thing (Not that you can't change it's settings, mind you), you almost might as well. I currently force all e-mails going out on my name-e-mail-address (Yes, I have an address that's my first@last name) to be digitally signed, even if the recipient can't necessarily verify that signature, since I use this for official contact (e.g. work, applications, etc.).

Phew! On the project side of things, I've gotten a co-worker (well, was-co-worker since my contract ended) interested in helping me translate Ozy & Millie - I think I'm going to write to the author and webmaster again soon once I've got a steady stream of strips going and tell them that someone's actually going to get things going for the French version ;> (It seems a few other people have already gone at it - sadly, there's not even fifty strips translated yet! Arg! What a sad state it's in!)

I've been really tempted to buy myself a GP2X - but there's four things holding me back:

The cost - Buying a GP2X, though possibly worth every penny, costs about as much as a PSP right now. And that might even be without taking shipping into account.
The lack of stores having it in stock - The only store I know that stocks the GP2X in Canada is one I've never heard of, GamerSection. It appears to be a Qu?bec company, but oddly the French translations are poor if even present. On the other hand, there is a representative from TigerDirect who tells me he can get it custom-ordered for me; We'll see how the price ends up looking like soon.
The apparent lack of quality games, as playing games that already exist on other platforms seems to be one of the few quality options. The fact that it would be possibly to port any SDL-based game as well as easy develop my own games for it is nary a comfort.
I'm not even sure I'd use it! I've not finished the games I have for my PS2, never mind the ones on my GBA, and I hardly use my portable audio player during this time of joblessness. Speaking of joblessness, I'm also not sure I want to spend money while I have no job.

Eh, it finally happened. I forgot what I was going to say. Good enough for today, I dare think.

Winterbells, aye?

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:45:56 -0500

The bells were the size of the rabbit's head by then, and also sparse. Fun and addictive game for most, but I think I'm going to have to stay away from this one now ;>

The Brick violating copyrights, or SCO?

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:10:55 -0500

My mother was listening to the TV the other night while I had Eth over. Just as I was about to show SCO (Space Cowboy) to him, a The Brick commercial came on, and... the music was familiar. Very familiar. IRRITATINGLY familiar. I recognised it fairly fast because I quickly found it irritating in the game - it’s the ANI city theme.

So the question is: Is The Brick violating a copyright? Is SCO? Or did they both obtain a fair licence of the same music track and this is nothing but a co-incidence?

Perhaps I should record the commercial and show what I mean?

Oh where, oh where, has the little kitsune gone...?

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:26:48 -0500

Space Cowboy!

As mentioned in my previous short post, I've been playing an MMORPG lately (*gasp!*), called Space Cowboy. Oddly enough, I'm finding it to be somewhat interesting and time consuming enough that I can jump in and come back out a few hours later feeling refreshed and without so much time (Which is an odd thing to say, but there it is.).

There's something nice about blasting things out of the sky.

Must be the the gattling thunka-thunka-thunka-thunka-BOOM...

Anyhow, this company apparently has not one, not two, but four free MMORPGs to which you can use the same account for. Interestingly, all of them claim to be free for life, which is kind of an interesting promise - not that I disbelieve it, mind you (Gunz is still alive) - and I wonder how long it'll last. GPotato (the company) does get income from these games, I imagine, given some of the paid options that are available. So far, though, it seems that these paid options are nowhere near necessary to be able to enjoy the game which is, it hopefully goes without saying, a very nice fact indeed.

I get spam!

So recently, my main e-mail address was a target for spam. At first it came slowly - an e-mail or so per week - but then it began to grow, more and more e-mails per day. Originally, I wasn't too concerned, but then I got really annoyed - I'd managed to keep all my e-mail addresses entirely spam-free. Why did this one start getting spam all of a sudden?

Eventually I remembered a bug which was spotted in my ICQ client, Miranda: Recently, for some odd reason, the "Do not publish primary e-mail address" option would always switch off, causing anyone to be able to collect your e-mail address off your profile.

I removed my e-mail address from my profile (I doubt I'll be needing to reset my password any time soon anyway.), and the spam dropped almost magically.

Server updates on forum

To give my forum some use (and I think I had decided some time ago to do this, and didn't stick to it), I'm going to post any updates relevant to the server itself only on my forum rather than cluttering my personal blog with that information.

This will be the last post on my blog in that category.

Gallery changes done

All the changes to the gallery have been done. All galleries are completely available again. I'll remind once again that some galleries and features may require registration.

Looking for an apartment

I said I was moving out last year, and I haven't yet! I'm looking for an apartment, and my future roommate Eth has spotted one near St. Laurent that might be good for the two of us.

He works in Orléans, and myself downtown, so we're looking between those two areas.

Xmas gifts

For the curious, I've updated my wishlist, showing what of it I've gotten as well as including a new thing or two that I'd like. It seems I'll have to buy the Okami soundtrack myself (and probably soon before it goes out of print). I got lots of chocolate again, but at the time of this posting, it's already all gone ;>_>

Joe's Goals - What my own goals are

I'd spoken about Joe's Goals beforehand, but I hadn't really mentioned what my goals on there are. So, without further ado:

Chores (+1)
Exercise (+1) - Last check 7 days ago
Wrote (+1) - Last check 31 days ago
Coded (+1) - Last check 11 days ago
Blogged (+1)
Added todo item (+1) - Strange as this item may seem, this is to encourage myself to remember things, especially things I need to do.
Completed todo item (+1)
Been outside for a while (+1)
Cleaned / Cooked (+1) - Placed separately from "chores" as expansion, not chores with that description
Filtered Mom's e-mails (+1) - This one is likely to get archived as now most of the spam in her inbox gets correctly tagged as "bulk" anyway, which her OE now has a filter (or "rule") for.
Been to Joe's Goals (+0) - Used as a tracker
Socialised (+1)
Changed bed sheets (+1) - Set as valid for only one particular day (Saturday); I'm trying to get myself to do it always on that day, and not on other days, for various reasons. Mostly a question of routine.
Ignored things to do (-1)
Ate Out (Alone) (-1)
Haven't been to Joe's Goals (-1)

So now you know what influences the graph, and why it doesn't go negative all that often (I think).

An amusing error message

My job requires me to keep, among other things, lists of documents up to date; Documents of all kinds that have something or other to do with situations and people in other countries. At some point I came upon some links which were no longer valid, and gave this error message:

There is an end-user problem. If you have reached this site from a web link,
- Through your internet options, adjust your privacy settings to allow cookies or
- Check your security settings and make sure this site has not been blocked or
- You are probably using a very slow link that may not work well with this application.
Otherwise you have reached this site through unauthorized means.

Seriously, considering you get this very same error message accessing their index page, can any of those really be true, including it being unauthorized, of all things?

Finally, some snow!

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:13:25 -0500

Work's been fairly boring, unfortunately.

I've been playing Space Cowboy. Free MMORPG, and it isn't too bad.

But more on all that later.

This makes me happy I don't have Sympatico...

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:45:03 -0500

Rogers was criticized some time ago for implementing bandwidth limits (caps) on their subscribers' connections.
However, they're at decent, reasonable limit of 60 GB (combined) which is fairly unlikely to hit (unless you're downloading and sharing, say, PS2 games).
However, Sympatico is planning on having some really stringent caps, some of them as low as 1 GB. What's worse is that the less you pay per month, the more you pay if you go over your limit.
Okay, 30 GB is a reasonable limit, but it's still half of Rogers', and it really doesn't make sense to start tightening down on users' connections now as bandwidth prices are getting lower, not higher.

Joe's Goals!

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:31:28 -0500

I've been using this goal tracking system called Joe's Goals lately, which allows you to keep track of your daily (or weekly, or some-days-in-a-week-ly) goals - such as whether or not you've done exercise today, or whether or not you've resisted smoking.
There are four things I really like about it: it has a really simple interface, it uses AJAX, it has few (or no) ads, and Joe is constantly working on improving it.
I should also note that the reminder e-mails (configurable) are also useful.
Those of you who visit my site will notice that I now have a "badge" at the top of my blog displaying how I've been doing in terms of keeping my goals, lately. At the moment I actually have few "negative goals" (i.e. things I want to avoid doing), but I'm sure a few ideas will come along as soon as some behaviour of mine annoys me.
If you, like me, have trouble keeping to things you have to do regularly, you may be interested in using it. If not... well, give it a shot anyway -- all you have to do is visit the front page to see how it works and to tinker a bit with it ;)

Eating out, Thanksgiving, and Wikis

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:57:42 -0400

I don't seem to blog often anymore. It kind of bothers me, because it usually causes me to forget things, or put stuff in "blocks" (or updates), like this. Then again, I've also been ignoring my todo list... I suppose it's because I'm still getting used to my job. Yes, I know that I don't have to get up that early (I have flexible hours, apparently, but I don't put too much faith in those words.), but while the sleepiness is a little difficult to deal with, there are some perks to getting up early. Not to mention that half the time, the cat wakes me up anyway...

After the second day of work - that is, on the 3rd - I went to The Fox And Feather Pub along with my brother and some of his friends (and his boyfriend). The menu was a little bland, but I went for the shrimp linguine - finding out then what the name of "that sauce I kinda don't like" was - which wasn't too bad. Were it not for the sauce, I probably would have enjoyed it much more - the shrimp and pasta were good, so perhaps I'll go for something else next time or ask if I can get another sauce instead. The night went well and I enjoyed myself, but I think it would have been better if my brother hadn't decided to schedule this on a Tuesday on the second day of work; I really don't understand why he decided to make it that day. Perhaps to celebrate me getting a job, but I really want to avoid being late at my job... I did it too much at my last one and I don't want a repeat performance. I know I can do better than that. The reason I mention all this is because after finishing our meals there, most of them decided they'd go to another pub (or was it a bar?), and I decided I'd go back home (given the time left, I didn't have much of a choice if I wanted to get up early).

Thanksgiving was... interesting. First, I thought that we were going to my sister's new apartment for a dual purpose: For Thanksgiving, naturally, and also to help her move. So, I packed fairly minimally - clothes, a few board games, a this or a that here and there - since I figured that I'd spend most of that weekend helping her move. Turns out that her friends had already helped her move, and that everything she had was out of the old apartment. Well. Have lots of spare time then, don't we? It wasn't so bad, though; I had the sense to bring myself a book, and I also brought my portable media player, and when I wasn't the only one with nothing to do there was the games - I had brought Calypso (didn't get played), Tsuro (played several rounds), Escape Velocity: Nova (didn't get played, but then again, there wasn't a point where only me and my brother weren't doing anything), and Skip-Bo (which, being my mother's favorite, got played quite a bit). We enjoyed ourselves, had fun, yaddi yaddi yadda. Oh, and because Rona was having a sale during that weekend (or at least that Rona did), my brother decided to buy his bathroom tiles at that point. Heh.
The way back, however, is another story. On Monday, approximately three hours away from home, the car suddenly decided to switch into what is apparently called safe mode (This is what the taxi driver called it... but I'll get back to that.). Essentially, it was impossible to get a speed higher than ~60 km/h, and being on the highway, this meant going onto the shoulder to be out of the way. We stopped a few minutes to inspect the engine and such to see if we could find any problems, but the only indications of problems we were getting from the dash were the SERVICE and ENGINE OIL PRESSURE lights, which were no help as the engine appeared to have the proper amount of oil. (Neither my mother nor my brother have CAA coverage at this point, by the way.) So we chugged along to the nearest exit (which thankfully wasn't far at all), and stopped at the outskirts of a small city (or town?) in a gas station. There, we phoned around and as we expected, just about no places were open since it was Thanksgiving Monday. A man getting his car filled up at the gas station helped us, telling us about a few places we could try, as well as inspecting the engine and letting us know where the nearest Saturn car dealer was, etc.. We decided to try to drive down to a bus station, I believe, or the car dealership - I don't quite remember. Either way, we decided that since the status of the car wasn't improving that we'd get the car towed to the dealership, and find an alternate way home.
In itself, this proved to be a challenge. Now, I did say it was Thanksgiving monday, right? Forget this detail a moment and imagine yourself in this situation. Three hours from home, it's approximately noon, and your car breaks down and needs servicing. So you send your car to the dealership... then what? Call a car rental place, right? But this is Thanksgiving Monday! We had stopped at a funeral home (closest parking lot, and also a fairly large and completely empty one), and a lady there was also helpful to us. The rental places that were actually open had no cars for us to rent. The local busses weren't running, and the intercity ones didn't seem to be terribly interested in this city or weren't answering. (And Greyhound's number, for some reason, had a fax machine picking up both lines.) Thankfully, I noticed the VIA Rail station on the bus route map, and so we walked down to that under the hot sun (What a day for it to be hot! It's a good thing I decided to wear my shorts that day.), and asked there what our chances of getting home were. There were a pair of trains that could get us home by about 22 o'clock, and the tickets would cost us...
400$ total.
The only option we had was that once we were at the connecting station, we could try to catch an intercity bus instead, and have the second tickets (the more expensive ones) refunded; This we did. We took a taxi from the train station to the bus station, and during the short five minutes it took to get there, the taxi driver, an ex-Saturn-worker, told us that the car had switched it a safe mode (Just enough power to get you home were some of his words, and really, had we not any other problems, we might have actually been able to drive all the way home in five hours, if I calculated right.) because it detected a major problem; He also told us that during the test drives on Saturn station wagons, 3 out of 5 SAAB transmissions blew on the first day, and therefore this was likely the problem that we were experiencing. While this was grim news, it was nice to have some insight on the situation. When my mother mentioned wanting to sell the car after getting it fixed, he suggested a few brands. Hyundai was one, I believe, and when my mother mentioned she wanted to get a Honda Civic, he said You cannot go wrong with a Civic. (Or did he say Honda? I'm not sure.), which was kind of amusing.
Anyhow, we managed to get bus tickets to go home, and had arrived at the station just in time to catch the bus that was about to leave. My brother sat somewhere in the middle, while my mother and I sat in the front and chatted with the bus driver the whole time. He was a pretty nice guy, talkative, frank and easy to get along with. We spoke on several subjects - like GPSs and bus drivers (such as himself) getting lost while trying to go to new locations - but on the subject of the car he said that the transmission was probably on a special warranty (I didn't catch the word he used - mechanical? Manufacturer?), which was the first bit of good news we got that day.
The rest of the day (what was left of it, anyway - it was about 22 o'clock when we got home) went fairly smoothly...

The good news on that is that it turns out the problem was not the tranmission, but that the catalytic converter got plugged up (Have you ever heard of that?), and the better news is that it was covered by warranty. My mother is going to sell the car because the previous problem she's had (excluding the flickering light/electrical system which hasn't been fixed yet; it's the secondary one and not the important things, so stuff like the inside lights flicker and the beeping sound is intermittent, but the headlights and dash work just fine), was the rack and pinion - covered more or less by warranty (She complained to GM, I believe, and got them to do the work mostly for free - she had only to pay 100$). Have you ever heard of those two problems? Rack and pinion coming apart and the catalytic converter being pluggd up are not car problems I usually hear about. Thus, she's going to get herself a Honda.

Phew. At work and at home I've been experimenting with wikis - mostly a special type of wiki that is self-contained and only uses one file. Currently, I'm using StickWiki to write my work notes in, and am writing my life notes (life, cooking, observations, information, etc.) in a copy of TiddlyWiki which I am planning on uploading occasionally for others to look at, refer to, etc.. What's nice and special about these Wikis is that while they're uneditable online (which can be considered a feature or a depending on your viewpoint), they use only one file, no database, and do not require you to be online to edit them. Thus, you can use them for a large variety of writing purposes - notes, blogs, journals, etc. - and you don't have to worry about moderating changes to them.
Which reminds me, I need to ask my sister if she wants something simpler to blog in, and if comments are something important to her, as she could just use TiddlyWiki (or some variant like StickWiki) if she prefers.

It was a bright and stormy day...

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:18:53 -0400

Pretty hefty winds out there today. I think it managed to open the screen door for the cat a few times now.
In fact, I'm not sure if the cat's outside or not, at the moment...

My brother and I have been playing Starcraft on and off recently. Yeah, it's a nine year old game, and people still play it - they (Starcraft players) account for over a third of the people on Battle.net, still. Only about 3% of those don't have BroodWar (the expansion set), which is interesting: By now, most people have noticed that the Starcraft Battlechest / Set goes for about 20-30$ - even here. Oddly enough, my brother only recently got the expansion set from Futureshop, along with a copy for me (so that I would have a legal copy - I somehow have two keys spare to use, but no actual copy of SC)...
...and somehow managed to buy the French version.
(By the way, when I checked Battle.net just now, there were 48517 games in progress. Of those, 20189 were reported to be Starcraft: Broodwar games (43%)! Only 598 (1%) of them were regular Starcraft games, however. Mind you, neither comes as a total surprise: More SC games are required for more players fairly often, considering two things: People often play private games with their friends, not allowing in the general public; Also, people often don't wait for their games, as the average age is fairly low, and the average attention span is lower.)

Anyhow...
It seems I've not spoken of Wombat here yet (at least not of his currenct condition); He had a lump growing on the side (behind) of his jaw. He was diagnosed with a curable form of cancer, and is undergoing treatment. It's pretty bad for him; He can't go to work, and his work only pays him for the days he works. He can't do much and has a reduced attention span, not to mention being fatigued all the time. And his hair is gone. It's really taking a toll on him...

IRC, and why it doesn't need modernisation

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 15:45:09 -0400

I believe Nightwish nailed it, here:

IRC is a protocol which has been working flawlessly for more than 15 years. It simply doesn't need all that modern crap. It works and that's all most IRC users expect from it. I haven't seen a single serious IRC user who complained about "missing features". IRC has all features which are needed for a stable and relieable chat environment.

Lemmings... in your browser!

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:38:51 -0500

Some of you may have played, and may remember, the old Lemmings games made by Psygnosis.
I found a version which will play on (fast) computers, through a web browser (IE, Moz, FF compatible):
DHTML Lemmings!
NOTE: Make sure you read the known issues, it might answer a few questions, such as why it runs so slowly, or why sounds and music are disabled outside IE (by default, not permanently). It's ironic that the original version of Lemmings could run on a really slow computer, and this browser emulation of it requires a fast one...
WARNING: Proxomitron users should add the site to the bypass list, or enable bypass mode, while visiting this site; Otherwise, odd problems may occur, such as media player showing up and crashing...

EDIT: Gameplay notes:

Climbers, floaters and exploders cannot be selected when falling, unlike the original.
Move your mouse to select a lemming. Again unlike the original, you will not automatically select a lemming when they pass under your pointer.
Animations will cease if there are too many lemmings onscreen. This is normal. Similarly, fast-forward mode may not work as expected when there are many lemmings present.
Climbers and floaters will still appear (and be named as) as walkers even when skilled. It seems to me that the original wouldn't call them floaters, but perhaps I'm too used to Lemmings 2.
You can unselect the current skill and be left with pointer that does nothing when you click. Don't panic, it isn't a bug - you can still select skills normally.

Internet funnies?

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:40:24 -0400

Damnit, w00t-comic.net died. The comic finished a while back, apparently, but I never got to see. Has anyone got an archive of it, or a torrent, or anything at all left of it? I'd ask the author, but I'm not sure how happy they'd be to have me (probably Yet Another Person) ask them for an archive of it.

And on the subject of internet-related fun(nies?)... Someone linked to this on the w00t-comic community (eh, as a joke; for any of you who've read the comic - think of Kendall) - it's a year old, but still an... interesting read. Adult content - the word says it all. Teledildonics. Well, it had to happen eventually. o_o;