No more ads :-)
So I figured out how to strip away the text ads in GMail when you use Firefox.
First you need to install this extension for Firefox:
URIid. This extension you to provide a CSS file that will selectively override the CSS formating for specific websites.
Once you've done that, create a text file called userContent.css in your Mozilla profile's chrome folder (You can find it most easily with Start->Run-> "%AppData%" then navigate down through a structure similar to: Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/default.q12/chrome).
In the userContent.css file, place this text:
body#gmail-google-com div#ad {
display: none !important;
}Save the file then restart Firefox.
This will hide the text ad <div> blocks on any gmail web page!
If you fool around with this file (and know CSS syntax) you can change the colors and behavior of all the pieces of the GMail interface. The easiest way to find the names of the various components is by drag selecting the sections of the UI then choosing "View Selection Source" in the right-click context menu.
Kuala Lumpur and skew b.
Since the last blog generated so much confusion, I start this blog with a "This is an ML post" caution.
Am heading off to KL tomorrow for a well deserved (if I say so myself) holiday. Will be joined by the usual suspects - fwee, addy, stupidchicken, weister and ken. (On a side note, it's a little odd calling people by their blog names, will have to get used to it.) We'll be there till Sunday, so we're just going to have to max out the fun we have there. It's so nice to get out of the country, even though it's only across the Causeway.
I also proudly announce that skew is now on dogster.com (
www.dogster.com/?118474) Do drop by and give him a bone!
A Cheesy Nightmare
Wei's blog has inspired me to start blogging again (not that I was a fantastically frequent blogger, but ah well). Also, I had a horrific dream on Monday night which I thought was worth sharing.
I was stirring a pot of sheep's milk over a stove to make it turn into Pecorino formaggio (had just watched Avventura on Discovery channel before passing out). The theory is that as the milk is stirred, it will slowly start to coagulate into little lumps which will form big lumps of cheese. For some strange reason, I stirred and stirred, and the milk *did* start to coagulate, but when it was almost perfect, it started disintegrating again. I ended up with a pot of milk, no cheese, and no amount of stirring would make it become cheese. At one point, I even tried squeezing the little bits of cheese together to help them clump up, but that didn't work either.
Woke up traumatized and exhausted (stirring is really tiring). Neurotic, no? That dang dream is a reflection of my work, by the way. *sigh*
Geek Love Poem
From
ThinkGeek:
roses are #FF0000
violets are #0000FF
all my base
are belong to you
Wow. I'm overwhelmed. Truly, quite touching.
Lacing your shoes
From
Gizmodo ->
LifeHacker:
Some people have far too much time on their hands. Some guy has made a
website discussing many ways to lace and tie your shoes.
Some of them are quite neat, and I especially like his "Ian's Knot." I need to try it out some time... I am always the last person out the door because I take so long to tie my shoes.
Amazon Prime
Now this is a neat idea.
For $79 a year, you can get two-day shipping on all of your orders for "free" and overnight shipping for $4 at
Amazon.com.
I'm going through my orders of the past year, and I think it might actually be worth it -- I order things from them 2-3 times a month, and often buy extra to get the free shipping. I also have spent at least $30 on outright shipping charges when I decided I couldn't wait, or have given up my possible savings when I had to go to a brick & mortar store instead to get something quicker.
Hmmmm....
