I’ve been frustrated after the conversion to FF 3.0, looking for the Dictionary.com search engine.  The Mozilla addons site only has the Merriam-Webster engine.  I went hunting for it on the Dictionary.com site, and finally found the link: http://dictionary.reference.com/tools/firefox.html gives you access to the dictionary, thesaurus and reference engines. (more…)

Chad Hensler writes in his blog about Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, encouraging Google to challenge a ruling forcing them to turn private user logs over to Viacom.  In Dr. Cavoukian’s words:

…business should not, in my opinion, rely on the surveillance of consumers to protect their copyright interests. It is not acceptable to allow copyright enforcement to come at the expense of users’ privacy.

My new personal hero.

Read the whole letter here.  (Thanks, Richard, for the link.)

I’m starting a new category dedicated to the beleaguered legions who are pressed into service during the precious few hours of respite they have from working for the man: The Weekend SysAdmins. (more…)