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Mostly, the twitterbot seems to spend all day disconnecting and reconnecting. I guess it's low priority, but frankly to me it's the most useful interface to the system. On the other hand, the whole concept isn't really useful to me.

In other IntarWeb Two toys, Stikkit looks like it might be useful if I or someone else wrote an emacs client for it. Because frankly it causes my firefox-on-memory-shy-laptop to grind almost to a halt with its wacky interactivity. Oh, and it didn't send me a reminder for the one thing I tried the reminders on.

The great thing about threaded apps is that a core dump in a single thread will take down the entire application.

I'm looking at YOU, firefox.

How hard can it be, in this day and age, to put plugins and other potentially unstable and certainly uncontrolled crap off in their own little box where they can happily do what they like without killing of the whole browser?

At some point today I did something to Firefox that caused its memory consumption to shoot up to about 280M before I killed it (this machine only has 256M). Since then I've restarted it twice, and both times it's shot up to over 200M within a minute or two of opening. And No, I'm Not Browsing The Same Pages.

my laptop spent most of this evening in Windows land, partly so that I could update the virus scanner that lives there and partly for some other reason that escapes me. While I was there I played with Firefox and Thunderbird for a bit and installed some extensions to the former. Things that I am noticing as a result of this toolery:

• Thunderbird's RSS reader is pretty damned rough. You can't seem to drag and drop RSS URLs into it or do something like thunderbird <url to rss file>
• Thunderbird needs at least two more display layouts: folder list + message list, and message list. I don't care if this is a "if you want Outlook/Evolution you know where to get them" statement.
• Firebird extensions: good. Restarting to activate them: bad. Inconsistently placed configuration screens: very bad.
• Deepest Sender is nice, but missed the one basic thing I thought was totally the point of browser-embedded web log clients: writing an entry based around the current page. Like, BLOG THIS ALREADY or something.
• The del.icio.us plugin was okayish but needs to be two-way, i.e. rather than just grabbing my stuff off del.icio.us, it should be possible for me to locally frob the del.icio.us folder and have the results mirrored on the site.
• WeatherFox (check the firefox extensions site as I couldn't be bothered digging up the URL again) is neat.

And that is all.