--- title: "Forbidden Quickies" date: 2005-04-25T15:43:08-04:00 url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2005/04/25/forbidden-quickies/ author: Les Orchard --- # Forbidden Quickies After just [having proclaimed my effort toward maintaining focus][focus], however, I couldn't resist letting these things slip out of my head: * The new [ecto][ecto] is pretty sexy with its pre-Tiger hints and new icons, I must say. * I really want to read [Practical Common Lisp][lisp]. My *meta-sense* is tingling. * Whether good or bad, I've got almost month-old tabs sitting in [OmniWeb][ow]. In other browsers, this would have been inconceivable. Barring an OS update, my trial period will be up before these tabs go away. On the bright side, those other browsers gave a sort of limited shelf life to things waiting for my perusal--between now and the next rude crash. But now, they can just stick around until that scroll bar in the tab drawer gets too small for me to grab. * [Greasemonkey][gm] has me wanting to switch back to Firefox, though. That, and it has me wishing I knew enough about writing Firefox extensions to steal my favorite feature from OmniWeb: That being the tab drawer, of course. I have doubts that I could replicate the page thumbnails--although I did have some odd thoughts of farming that out to some web service that took page snapshots. * Another thought: Seems like things like [Greasemonkey][gm] may enable much of what I wanted to do with [Agent Frank][af] before I wandered away from it. [focus]: http://www.decafbad.com/blog/2005/04/25/hacking_rss_and_atom_is_a_real_book [lisp]: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ [af]: http://www.decafbad.com/blog/2003/02/15/ooodaa [ow]: http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/ [gm]: http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ [ecto]: http://ecto.kung-foo.tv/

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