Comments on: The Global Geek Podcast #88 :: Fuzzy Firefox

By: Dave Gray

Dave Gray — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:01:17 +0000

@Mr B Thanks for the tip and the accolades! Thanks mate – but without you guys it would not be half as fun!

By: Cait

Cait — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:17:23 +0000

@theallimportant.doug for the record, you can call us “guys”, I don’t mind. Aussies use the word “guys” much more loosely (like most of our slang) than some countries. I won’t be offended, promise

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:22:32 +0000

ewps… Did I say nutjob? wow! I get crazy late at night. Must have been the heatwave. I plan to watch a .NET on S60 seminar the 10th and maybe pickup the iphone 3G on the 11th. Maybe I’ll change my mind about adobe and MS.

By: Mr.B.

Mr.B. — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:44:37 +0000

PasteBin.com – Better than TinyPaste, as it supports code highlighting and versioning!

LOVE the GGP.

By: Dave Gray

Dave Gray — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:26:41 +0000

@Doug… we did try and warn you about the laser thing And I know what you mean about the guy and girl thing

@Eric Yeah that would make sense since a lot of a web site can be script and other “crap” loading up that has not got a lot to do with actual content on the page. But these days it is getting harder to actually “see” the content without scripts running. In actual fact for me to run NoScript would even be counter productive because of the large number of sites that I review. But Great suggestion all the same.

@Herne no more a dork than I sound

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:22:59 +0000

btw – NoScript is really nice for making firefox even faster

By: theallimportant.doug

theallimportant.doug — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:15:43 +0000

I relaised I normally call you “guys” meaning group (not male).
Therefore I am now the more politcally correct all import Doug!
Poor Cait!

By: Dave Gray

Dave Gray — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:30:09 +0000

I am with Herne…

By: Herne

Herne — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:30:30 +0000

@Doug I’m not sure that Dave and Keith appreciate being referred to as “ladies”…

By: Cait

Cait — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:38:10 +0000

.doug would be cool, and the perfect place to resurrect the original http://www.doug.com

http://web.archive.org/web/20010203163900/http://doug.com/

By: theallimportant.doug

theallimportant.doug — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:46:57 +0000

First of all: GO THE BLUES.
Disk aid: I like, i like.
.wtf etc – i do not like….there should ONLY be .doug (obviously)
Im currently on the eee which is connected up to my 17″ monitor. A little slow, but bareable. I sold my old PC (I put Vista SP1 on it, an obvious reason to sell it )
Jus to let you know I AM up and running at the moment, as far away as possible from that thing they call “vista”.
Oh, and if I do dissapear it’s because the police have captured me for attempting to import lasers. Posted not last monday, but the monday before and I have still not got em! And this bloody new law is in July 1 (Yesterday!!!) Wat a waste of $38. Atlleast i still have one
Good show once again ladies(for what there was) and gentleman!

By: Herne

Herne — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:35:53 +0000

Boy, do I sound like a dork. Good thing I don’t podcast.

I actually do already use AdBlock Plus! And it blocks a lot of stuff, but I think the ads are getting smarter or perhaps they’re formatting them differently now or something because I still get a lot of junk, especially flash ads lately. I may have to manually start blocking adservers for pages that I visit frequently…

My two hates lately are;
The New York Times website that forces you to sit through 20-30 second ad before it will display the webpage link that you clicked on.

Techmeme that has more than 1/3rd of their pages covered in ads. And they’re constantly Twittering what look like interesting links and when you click on them you get 5-10 lines of text and the rest of the page is chocked fulla ads!

Just stop it! Sheesh!

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:07:12 +0000

It seems like ARD is disabled by default?