ever since mr. cheng ;) introduced the ingenuity that is piclens (a free firefox plugin), i’ve been enjoying a completely different way of looking at pictures online.

however, there is a situation when it’s acting weird, so in case you have the same problem as i did:

my main pc has a desktop which stretches over two displays, and i’m using firefox 2.0.0.16¹ with piclens 1.7.1.3900. when piclens is showing the 3D-wall on one of the displays and i click on a window on the other screen, piclens minimizes to a black rectangle just above the windows start button:

it behaves the same way when i use "alt+tab" to switch to a different window.
switching back to firefox, piclens seems to block any action there. double-clicking the black frame sometimes reopens the black screen, but doesn’t show any images.

the workaround: i reactivate the firefox window using "alt+tab" or "shift+alt+tab" (which goes backwards, and the piclens icon is at position 1 on my pc). not sure if this works for everybody, but it does for me.

oh, and you can now use piclens in my galleries when looking at any single album such as this.

1. i downgraded from firefox 3 because of two bugs that gave me a hard time: consistently ignoring shortcuts after firefox.exe has been running for a random period of time (especially using bookmarks w/ keyboard shortcuts), and frequently not shutting down properly. [↩]

some more southpark movie references that i recently came across:

in southpark season 8 ep 7 "goobacks", the terms used to classify a time portal are in reference to three very popular movies. here’s what the news reporter has to say:

"alan, i’m standing at the time portal, which scientists say follows "terminator rules". that is, it’s one way only and you can’t go back.
this is in contrast to, say, "back to the future rules", where back and forth is possible, and of course "time writer rules", which are just plain silly."

[more...]

more than 9 minutes to download a 2.5MB email.
GPRS sucks.

i’ve become terribly negligent at uploading photos of current events (of whatever kind), so this is the beginning of my "random photos" photoalbum.

1 photo so far. still counting...
update 2008-08-04 01:35: there are 12 up now.
... must ... sleep ...
 

[view photos: the "random photos" photoalbum]

the first 15 seconds of this clip had me laughing out loud, litterally:

i wonder how many english-speaking viewers heard "australians" the first time they saw it...

with the heavy day-to-day thunderstorms, i kind of wonder why i didn’t try this earlier:

flashes of lightning in tirol

apart from its most popular meaning, chili is also the tunisian name for a dry wind (de) coming from the sahara desert.

salat is not just the german word for lettuce. it’s also the name of the daily prayers of muslims.

in greek mythology, ajax the great was the son of the king of salamis.

and ...my two favorites: boobies are groups of birds. as are tits.
 

next time you use any of these words, please make sure you’re not completely misunderstood. ;-)