What would Jesus blog?

'God blogging' workshop spreads faith: "Read full story for latest details." - CNN.com Technology

GoogleUPS

GoogleUPS: "I just noticed putting in your UPS tracking number in to Google brings up a link to the correct tracking page on the UPS website. Pretty handy so you don’t have to go searching though the UPS website looking for the tracking page (even if it’s on the front page)." - digg.com

iTunes is the media player to use IMHO. I've been using it since the podcast aggregator feature was added. I've found other reasons to love iTunes, like it's free mp3 encoder, stylish looks, and usable media library.

EDIT: I'm now thinking of uninstalling iTunes. I don't see anything wrong other than this: What about those who can't see? I recently heard (literally, on a podcast) that iTunes doesn't really support screen readers very well, which makes me less inclined to like this app...

OpenOffice.org Releases RC3 of Version 2.0

OpenOffice.org Releases RC3 of Version 2.0: "OpenOffice.org made available for free download a third release candidate of Version 2.0 of its popular open-source office suite Friday. The release includes bug fixes only and no new features." - from digg.com

Some people were commenting on digg about weather or not they would upgrade their RC2 to this RC3 since the final realease is scheduled so soon. Kids, please keep your software up to day, don't complain about something that we've been begging MS to do for years, which is test their products thouroughly before releasing it to us low life complaining types...

Upgrading software is just as important as upgrading the OS it runs on, please keep your system up to date people.

Can't copy/paste in Firefox?

About two or three days ago, I started having problems copying and pasting text using Firefox. Not only that but the problem was very strange. I could copy from one section of a document and insert into another portion of the same document, but when I tried pasting elsewhere like the address bar, another tab's document, or another window's document the copy buffer would mysteriously disappear, leaving me shocked and annoyed when I went to hit CTRL+V...

I have since then solved my problem by removing New Dot Net using Microsoft AntiSpyware (Beta). I found out this might solve the problem at the Cant copy and paste in Firefox article on the MozillaZine Forums.

For more information about the behavior of the Firefox "bug" see bug 311844 on Bugzilla.

P.S.
I know a lot of people's stomachs churn when they go to install another MS application, but I demand that these people forgive MS for the past and start realizing that they are finally turning themselves around and doing good things once again.

Edit: Looks like NewDotNet isn't really anything more than a glitchy piece of software, you can remove it without using MS AntiSpyware per the instructions at http://www.newdotnet.com/removal.html.

Google RSS Reader

While scoping the interesting web design of irishstu.com I happened accross the information that Google has an RSS reader. See the post on irishstu.com, or go directly to Google Reader.

How to create an extension for Firefox 1.5.

Building an Extension on http://developer.mozilla.org.

16.7 GB in images/wikipedia/en/

And that's a tarball!

Wikipedia offline.

I'm not done with this yet, but I am working on running the latest backup of Wikipedia on a computer not connected to the internet nor Wikimedia/Wikipedia servers.

For those who don't already know;

• Wikipedia is a project under the Wikimedia Foundation.


• MediaWiki is a PHP/MySQL application which hosts and serves the contents of the Wikimedia Foundation's projects, including Wikipedia.

What this means for those who don't already understand, is that with a running copy of PHP, MySQL, and MediaWiki (all of which are open source and free of charge) along with a properly populated MySQL database any computer can host and view the contents of Wikipedia without a connection to the internet nor Wikimedia/Wikipedia servers.

More later, once I've accomplished my goal...

For information regarding obtaining a copy of the latest database backups of Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects see Wikipedia:Database Download on Wikipedia.org.

Accessing Wikipedia from your application.

If you're writing an application that uses information within Wikipedia, this might be handy; You can access an XML version of any article without any HTML convertions like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Title_of_the_article

This is much more efficient than pulling down HTML, which has to be converted by the Wikimedia servers first.

New chocolate created.

NOT!

I'm sorry, you have been the victim of a practical joke link. Pass the joke on, the humor can't hurt you, unless it attacks you or something, but I promise it won't do that.

Have a nice day! :)

P.S.
Here's the url;
http://davidmonaghan.blogspot.com/2005/10/new-chocolate-created.html

Teh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teh

Asa Dotzler's article entitled Mozilla Custom Keywords.

If you are a Mozilla or Firefox user this is a tip you just can't ignore. This article describes using a Mozilla feature which can save anyone time when browsing to one of those common sites on their list.