Here's the link: http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/Film-At-1100.aspx

Wow. We're famous.

My cubicle neighbor pointed it out to me.

Don't worry, I did this over my lunch break. Because I'm a nerd.

A few weeks ago, I posted on the Stack Style Tabs extension for Firefox. I used it for a little while and I realized that it wasn't exactly what I was looking for... I think it was because I couldn't use my keyboard arrow keys in addition to ALT-TABing around. What I really wanted was a keyboard-centric way to quickly navigate through my tabs.

Today, I was going through my feeds and noticed a post from Lifehacker on a new experimental feature that Google was working on to allow you to navigate through search results using j/k and a few other keyboard shortcuts. My first thought was that this would be great, because I use the provided keyboard shortcuts to navigate through my feeds in Google Reader all the time. Unfortunately, it was a little rough around the edges still.

Then I saw a comment to the Lifehacker post on vimperator. I had seen posts on vimperator before and had even tried it, but it was a little too weird for me at the time. I mean, I still use my mouse occassionally; however, the comment mentioned that you could type :set guioptions=mTs and get your menu and toolbars back.

So I thought, eh, why not. I'll give it a shot again.

So far, I'm liking it.

First off, I'll recommend turning your menu and toolbars back on using the guioptions setting. It makes the transition to vimperator a little easier. Once you've done that, just start browsing.

Here are a couple of my favorite features so far:

1. If you press f, you'll get Hit-a-Hint like labels pop up on all of the anchor tags which will be numbered. If you press the number in the label, it will navigate to that link. No mouse!
2. If you press b (comes from the vim idea of buffers instead of tabs), you'll get a list of your tabs! Just press the number and it will open that tab up! Awesome! THIS is what I wanted for a Firefox extension.

Here's a screenshot of it in action:

There are a lot of other options that are probably great, but I still need to spend more time learning them. I encourage you to give it a try, too. Don't worry if it seems a little overwhelming. You can always turn to vimperator's help, which is excellent.

This post has absolutely nothing to do with anything. Just some ramblings from my brain this morning.

I got to work a few minutes ago and the first thing I do every morning is go pour myself a cup of coffee. The coffee doesn't bother me too much - at least after I pour some sugar and cream in it and it looks more like milk than coffee. However, others at work despise the stuff. It's the typical coffee you might find at any other corporate office... except maybe Starbucks.

That's when the ironic thought hit me.

What if the coffee that Starbucks has for their employees is the same coffee sludge that every other corporate office has? Wouldn't that be hilarious? Wouldn't it be... ironic?

It must be too early in the morning to form coherent thoughts.

I've already shared with you about how cubicles really can be annoying when you sit next to the loudest two individuals in the world.

Now, I'd like to point you to a video that Long Zheng posted (from istartedsomething) from when Conan O'Brien visited Intel headquarters.

Here are some similarities between Intel and where I work:

1. Cubicles really are like parking garages, except that you have assigned spots.
2. Cubicles really don't have much color or individuality (I do have a National Geographic map on my cubicle wall, though - yay!).
3. People really are picky about their chairs. Seriously picky.

Here are some differences between Intel and where I work:

1. No cafeteria.
2. No "ultra-clean" factory.
3. Hairnets only come into play on Halloween.
4. I haven't ever seen kids on a field trip, though we do have kids come around our cubes to sell cookies sometimes (and on Halloween).

One other thing - I think I've met Bill Lumbergh's clone in our cubicle farm. I'm guessing any and all work environments that make use of cubes have their Bill Lumberghs.

I just finished reading this post from the BCLTeam blog on the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha release that was announced at MIX07. It sounds like there is a new security model that is being introduced with Silverlight as a replacement for CAS (Code Access Security). I haven't done any research yet, but it looks like we'll be able to just decorate methods with attributes like Transparent or SafeCritical.

From just a cursory glance, it sounds like this will be much easier to work with than CAS. I couldn't ever really follow CAS very well - usually I just followed the FxCop guidelines and left it at that. I found the MSDN documentation on developing Silverlight applications with the .NET Framework, but there isn't much on the security side of things yet. I'm interested to see if Microsoft will start to move away from CAS to a more developer-friendly model.

Sounds interesting.

I just wanted to share a Firefox extension I found recently. Stack Style Tabs basically treats the Ctrl+Tab shortcut in Firefox like Alt+Tab in Windows or like Ctrl+Tab in Visual Studio. I use Visual Studio all day long and I really like the ability to SEE all of the open files when I hit Alt+Tab instead of just cycling through them. It has frustrated me for a while that Firefox didn't provide this capability as well, but with this new extension, I'm set!

Here's a screenshot of it on my desktop:

Ever want to build Visual Studio solutions quickly, but without having to open Visual Studio or pulling up a command prompt and typing msbuild on the solution? You know, like right-clicking and choosing a build option?

Like this?

Just copy and paste the following into a file (msbuild.reg) and run it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.Launcher.sln\shell\msbuild]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.Launcher.sln\shell\msbuild\command]
@="\"C:\\WINDOWS\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v2.0.50727\\MSBuild.exe\" /target:Rebuild \"%1\""

Remember that this will only work on Visual Studio 2005 solutions. Because solution files go through a launcher to decide whether or not to open in Visual Studio 2003 or Visual Studio 2005, I don't know if you could specify for this to only apply to 2005 solutions.

Any ideas?