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This entry is slightly geeky. You are warned.

In the individual entry pages on this site, you'll notice comments now contain posters' names at the beginning in addition to the end. I noticed reading comments and keeping the posters straight could get a bit confusing when the comments got particularly long. I'm also planning to write a summary of that morality thing, but I don't want to do it just yet.

Also, our friends over at Mozilla have released Firefox Release Candidate 2 (RC2). If you're still using Internet Explorer, you really need to get with the times and start using Firefox, which is, hands down, more featureful, safer, cleaner, prettier, and all-around better than IE. It will even import all your cookies, settings, saved passwords, bookmarks, and everything else, so the change is completely seamless.

If you're running Windows x64, there is a slightly older release of Firefox, the Deer Park Alpha 2, available for download. I've been running it a few days now and haven't had any problems with it.

You might also be interested in FlashBlock, a super-spiffy plug-in for Firefox that replaces all the Flash content on web pages with little logo things that you can click if you actually want to see the content. You'll notice a severe drop in the annoyance level of a lot of sites, as many obnoxious advertisements come in the form of Flash. It's also pretty simple to add sites to a whitelist, which will prevent FlashBlock from blocking content on those sites. That feature is particularly nice for web sites that use Flash in a non-annoying manner. Alas, that is usually the exception to the rule.

In other news, the current installation of my VLSI CAD homework (number five!) is roughly 25% complete, and it's due Thursday. It's shaping up to be yet another pretty assignment. :)