trochee

Sometimes it's more fun to do family-based tech support than research.

What I taught to trombo2 this weekend:

craig's list works, even in atlanta
spam filtering is better when it's on

What I taught to

keyboard shortcuts for Firefox: ctrl-L, ctrl-T, ctrl-K, ctrl-tab, etcetera
how to subscribe to RSS feeds in Thunderbird
pointed out the little red star in Thunderbird that says "you've got mail here you haven't seen before"
how to configure LJ S2 (e.g. so that visited links turn up in different color than unvisited)
delicious extension for inside Firefox
windows networks like you to have usernames
putting convenient things on desktop isn't worth much unless you can find it again later
(with _dkg_, remotely:) using keywords in firefox bookmarks for addressbar shortcuts
why gmail multilabels are better than folders

Now I should probably have been harassing my co-author to fix the permission problem that prevents me from actually starting my experiments, but instead I just hung out with

lapartera and

trombo2. Wish we could have dinner together more often.