wikked thoughts by Waqas Ahmed

wikked thoughts by Waqas Ahmed

yet another geek blog about Seattle, food, gadgets, games and the art of laziness

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Archive for October, 2004

My first Firefox bug

Well, not a bug per se… but an incompatibility. There’s a movable type feature that works on IE, but not on Firefox. In short, there are buttons missing whenver I try to create a new entry using Movable Type. Seems to be a known problem.

More on Firefox

I’ve been using Firefox more and more now. It’s good enough to make it my primary browser from now. It’s not quite there yet in terms of making it my only web browser. I’m comparing it to IE with my favorite plugin: Avant browser.

The good:
- Extensions in general. These are the key to Firefox’s success. [...]

The long tail

Two very interesting articles on the “long tail” phenomenon of online sales for retailers like Amazon.com.
Venture blog has a post on the death of the 80/20 rule and Wired has an article about something very similar. Credit goes to Amazon’s personalization team for pioneering the use of product recommendations.

Firefox & Gmail

Very nice! A gmail notifier for Firefox is available. Just tried it, and it works perfectly. This browser is growing on me.

Firefox & Gmail

Very nice! A gmail notifier for Firefox is available. Just tried it, and it works perfectly. This browser is growing on me.

Firefox tabs

I tried Firefox briefly, and really liked it, but couldn’t switch to it permanently from my IE based Avant Browser plugin because I didn’t like the way it handled tabs. However, the comments to a post on A VC’s blog provided the solution. I simply need to install extensions for Firefox.

If Firefox really wants to [...]

Caught red handed

I know you couldn’t care less, but I’ve finally posted an about page for this blog.