Friday, December 17, 2010

Bad advertising…

I’m seeing this stupid ad, first in opera 11, and now on firefox:

stupid-ad

How do I make it go away? There doesn’t seem to be a way to get it to go away!

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Why I don’t like web services…

Is Yahoo Shutting Down Del.icio.us? [Update: Yes]

I’ve used Del.icio.us for years. I have tons of bookmarks in there. Thankfully I should be able to export the bookmarks. The ability to export your data is rare. In any case, I’d like to have software running on my own machine. If the company goes out of business, I can at least keep running the installed software.

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...