{"id":994,"date":"2009-11-08T15:01:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T19:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=994"},"modified":"2009-11-08T15:01:42","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T19:01:42","slug":"odd-lots-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>Watch out when upgrading to Skype 4: The upgrade installs <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/11808\">a Firefox\/IE extension called Browser Highlighter<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.west-wind.com\/Weblog\/posts\/871907.aspx\">that slows the browser down significantly<\/a>, and I sure don&#8217;t remember it showing me a checkbox to uncheck or in any other way refuse the install. <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/reviews\/display\/11808\">This install-without-warning has gotten people more than a little het up<\/a>. Like Skype, Browser Highlighter is owned by eBay and appears to facilitate online price comparisons. To get rid of it, execute the uninstaller via Start | Programs | Browser Highlighter. Don&#8217;t just disable it in the browser; it must be uninstalled from Windows like any app or it&#8217;ll just show up in your taskbar tray again when you reboot.<\/li>\n<li>From the Words-I-Didn&#8217;t-Know-Until-Yesterday Department: An <em>acnestis<\/em> is an itchy place that you can&#8217;t reach to scratch. (Thanks to Larry Nelson for the suggestion.) I use a 24&#8243; slide rule to scratch my acnestes. Very accurate; gets to <em>precisely<\/em> the right spot!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/are-rising-costs-killing-the-crunchpad-2009-11\">The Arrington Crunchpad may be in trouble<\/a>. Dayum. I had high hopes for this one, not so much for Web or cloud work as for an ebook reader.<\/li>\n<li>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioshackcatalogs.com\/catalog_directory.html\">a fantastic archive of scanned Radio Shack catalogs<\/a>, browsable page-by-page. I had a lot of these from the midlate 60s to 1980 or so, and intermittently since. (Thanks to Bernie Sidor for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>From Bill Cherepy comes word of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chippc.com\/thin-clients\/jack-pc\/\">a managed PC built into a network jack<\/a>. It&#8217;s unclear how well this would run desktop software, but for cloud computing it could be useful, and in a cube farm setting would not be easily picked up and walked away with.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dggpro.com\/TheSodaDepot\/browse.asp?page=415\">Green River and Diet Green River<\/a>, there was at one time Green River Orange Soda, and Pete Albrecht reminds me that there was yet another (unrelated) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenriverwhiskey.com\/\">Green River: The Whiskey Without a Headache<\/a>. I&#8217;ll believe that when I feel it. (But I can&#8217;t stand whiskey, so don&#8217;t wait up for me to do the experiment.)<\/li>\n<li>And if &#8220;whiskey without a headache&#8221; sounds a little unlikely, then say hello to <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5399414\/robot-cow-rectum-for-educational-not-recreational-purposes\">the robotic cow rectum<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch out when upgrading to Skype 4: The upgrade installs a Firefox\/IE extension called Browser Highlighter that slows the browser down significantly, and I sure don&#8217;t remember it showing me a checkbox to uncheck or in any other way refuse the install. This install-without-warning has gotten people more than a little het up. Like Skype, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[21,15,43,14],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-electronics","tag-hardware","tag-humor","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}