Was invited to a Halloween BBQ, but I had to decline because I had some catchup to do at work. Though this Halloween was quite interesting. Many people on my floor brought in candy because little trick or treaters would come in between 4-6pm to go trick or treating in the Microsoft buildings. The little kids in their little costumes were super cute. Tekman’s twins came as Thing 1 and Thing 2 from Dr. Suess’ Cat in the Hat. I also helped myself to a sample of candy. hehe. What else was funny was because of the security inside the building, all the little kids had a sticker on their costume saying visitor. Dan was talking about how when he was small, when he went trick or treating, his parents would be paranoid about people poisoning candy, so any candy that wasn’t completely sealed was thrown into the trash. THAT EXACTLY HAPPENED TO ME TOO!!! My siblings can vouch for it too. Haha. Just found the coincidence to be shocking. Anyway, if my kids got candy from Microsoft Employees, I’m pretty sure I can trust all of them to not poison my kids, assuming that 1 day I’ll have kids.
Random Crap:
One of the pya! images I posted yesterday included a Skull Helmet Creature:
Apparently it’s Cubone from the Pokemon series (thanks to deadlock):
CustomizeGoogle (from /.) – CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhance Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam). Looks like a pretty neat tool.
Features:
- Use Google Suggest (suggest words while you’re typing)
- Add links to competitors
- Rewrite links to point straight to the images in Google Images
- Removes image copying restrictions in Google Print
- Secure Gmail, switch to https
- Remove ads
- Anonymize your Google userid
- Add a result counter in search result
- Filter spammy websites from search results
- Add links to WayBack Machine (webpage history)
- Remove click tracking
According to /., A new feature in CustomizeGoogle (Firefox extension) modifies the Google Cache urls so that they are no longer blocked by the Chinese firewall. This feature is only available in CustomizeGoogle zh-CN, found here. This is how it works: All links to Google Cache, from the Google search result, are slightly modified. The Chinese Great Firewall doesn’t recognize the new links as Google Cache links, and therefore they are accessible for everyone.
Oh well, the Chinese Internet Patrol probably caught on to this already and patched their firewall.
Lenovo ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC: Closing the Mobile Gap – another review of this sweet notebook. Not exactly sure why suddenly everyone’s doing reviews on these, but the X41 has been around for quite some time. Maybe Lenovo is sending out sample machines to different websites to get the word out?
Thanks for the customize google plugin =)