Nice software
In the past few days i saw several links on website that popped up a screenshot of the site they are going. I thought it was nicely done. Nothing uber-fancy but nice and well done. It is provided by snap.com and registration to use that feature on a site is for free. I immediately decided i want it on this blog and registration+installation literally took me less than a minute 
On another note, i got a new DSL connection today. Also nothing uber-fancy but okayish so far. It’s a 6MB/1MB ADSL connection with VOIP, all flat (VOIP is flat to 7 european countries - YAY). The connection comes with a Fritz Fon Wlan box, which is okay so far. One thing that struck me odd was the loading time on one of the setting pages. It displays the DSL spektrum. The spektrum is made up of a lot of small images that get loaded into the browser. And Firefox on windows is DEAD slow loading those images. Takes easily 4 minutes to load them all - mind you this is not on the internet; it’s accessing the local box in my LAN.
That kind of struck me odd since the same page loaded in a blink in firefox on my mac this morning. Turns out it’s not windows, as i first thought, since IE displays that page also in a blink. I thought it may have to do with DNS caching, caching in general and multiple channels to retrieve data. Without wanting to dig too deep into all this (was already suffering from IT burnout since i configured reverse proxies the whole day) i installed FasterFox! The page loaded a LOT faster after that (though still slowish). It can be tweaked with a few settings and finally i was able to properly browse the normally extremely slow Bioware boards. Now that an extension i warmly recommend to any Firefox user.