Geocities and Freenetnames are the reason I do what I do today pretty much. I started hammering out all kinds of sites on Geocities as a kid for shits and giggles, Geocities gave me the hosting capability and freenetnames gave me a free domain. I had some pretty popular sites then, funny thinking back now.

I remember using the web on my hayes 2400 bps modem. I think that's roughly ~4,000x slower than todays potential average of 10mb.

I'd be interested to see how stable your windows 7 boot camp partition becomes after you fire it up with Fusion 3; when I fired up my XP boot camp partition in Fusion 2 a while back the instance of XP I ran went through the process of recognising all the hardware changes / installing new drivers at startup then kept freezing every couple of seconds whenever I tried to use it - it never went back to the way it was before I did that - I ended up having to reinstall my boot camp partition all over again.

because you're* weird

Are you weird because you're a geek, or a geek because your weird?

Ironically, my browser's crashed 5 or 6 times more than normal this morning after disabling that plugin; I'm sure it's completely unrelated though.

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That. Earning money requires time and energy; I wish I had the time to sit and play games when I get home while in a contract - I'm usually too tired to do anything other than go straight to bed when I get home from work.

I thought Radium was banned from watches?

I think carrying a mobile phone or other electronic device with a nuclear power source in your pocket is a bit different to a smoke detector that sits stationary on your ceiling / wall.

Health and safety would have a field day with this.

Seriously, I can't wait to get the functionality (when it works) of Firebug completely the same in WebKit / Safari / Chrome et al so that I can scrap Firefox. Firefox has become the most annoying thing I have to deal with on a day to day basis while trying to get work done, constant memory leaks, random crashes and that's before I've even added extensions. Adding firebug to firefox now is like asking for a cup of insanity to be delivered to your door by Mr. Insano Man.

Yay!

Now, can we start porting FF extensions to webkit like, yesterday, please?

I wish I had mod points.

Accurate.

It doesn't matter, it doesn't *need* to be a Facebook app. I wrote an application that did exactly as described above (including OCR to pull peoples e-mails from their profiles), so that I could export my 500 odd friends from Facebook into a CSV file that I could then import into Twitter because Facebook doesn't have an option to export my contacts. *sigh*

It didn't take long, maybe an hour or two to write and then an hour to refactor / test to iron out the quirks, which saved me a lot of extra hours I would have had to spend loading up 500 profiles to write out all my friends details manually.