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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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Four Essential Tweaks for Firefox 2
I – Disable Tab Scrolling Firefox 2 sets a fixed minimum width for tabs, so rather than constantly shrinking when your tab bar is filled, tabs spill off the screen into a dropdown; a behavior reminiscent of XP’s default ‘Group similar taskbar buttons’ setting. If like me you find this thoroughly unusable, it can be… Read more
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More on Bebo Spam
Just a short note for Bebo users hitting this site from Google searches. My previous post, regardin the nefarious ‘homepagecam.us/cutie223’ seems to have hit a nerve. The spam you received was an advertisement for a (now removed) porn site. This was, to the best of my knowledge, the first commercial Bebo spam – if you… Read more
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Social Network Spam
Received my first social network spam, a mail through Bebo’s internal messaging system.. ‘hey gareth i just noticed ur profile.. i might be visitin friends where ur from… i have more pics on my cam site.. its ‘homepagecam.us/cutie223′ …im ussually online. msg me sometime on there…’ Social networks are in one sense eminently spamable (hell… Read more
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East Coast, West Coast
A mini-documentary about my first trip to America in 2006. Download: East Coast / West Coast While I was at the anti DRM demonstration at Apples 5th avenue store, I also interviewed a member of New Yorker’s for Fair Use, Jay Sulzberger. The interview was too long to include in the program, but if you’re interested… Read more
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Leaving Gotham
The rain fell my last morning in Manhattan, as if it personally disliked me. It dropped in fat wet polyps that hit and burst as I dragged a sodden case across 55th st. Mere hours before, less hours than it takes to realise last nights felafels have no intention of leaving your stomach either quietly… Read more
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Leaving Los Vegas
At 12.30, drunk on a football shaped bucket of cheap beer, standing under the quarter mile ‘Viva Vision’ screen which roofs the ‘Freemont St Experience’, watching as it runs through an absurd patriotic audio-visual demo, to whoops and applause from the assembled bikers, I think I finally get Vegas. The city is as it must… Read more
Gareth Stack 