paragraph indentation

    i found an easy way to indent paragraphs in the blogspot editor. just add this tag
to the first line of the paragraph. add multiple instances without spaces for greater indentation.

this tip comes from here.

this blogger's original tip
talked about adding a style script to the template but i didn't want to risk breaking my template testing it. be sure to back up your template before you test it.

another tip comes from here. again, i haven't tested this one either.

more tips
http://theedifier.com/blogging-blogger/formatting-the-post-fine-tuning-html.php
http://tips.blogdoctor.me/2007/10/format-text-in-blogger-posts.html
http://www.divitodesign.com/2008/10/paragraph-typography-guide/
http://www.ehow.com/how_2382848_hanging-indent-css.html

and there's also blogger help
http://help.blogger.com/bin/topic.py?topic=12457

hey google, stop refreshing.

    refresh blocker from my previous post didn't work so i stopped using igoogle for my home page. the auto refresh was causing problems so i had no choice. i wish google would give more options. i'm just using google's classic home page now. plain and simple, no automatic, dynamic, updates. the gadgets were just links to other pages anyway so i moved the links to my bookmarks.

    automatic content updating is probably a good feature for a lot of people but i prefer to manually update. google should offer this option. it got frustrating for me to see a couple of items to check out and go to one of the pages then come back to find the other items have been refreshed and i can't remember what exactly they were. a "pause" option sounds like a good idea. let me pause the auto update so i can check out a news story and come back and check the others. then when i'm ready i can update the news feed, or mail notification, or whatever. whaddya think google? good idea?

refresh blocker addon

i finally got around to solving a huge petty annoyance. yes, petty annoyances can be huge, lol. this one is about the way the igoogle custom home page auto refreshes. whenever google refreshes it locks up firefox and interferes with other tabs and pages. sometimes it stalls while it's fetching info and takes as much as 20 seconds to complete. google reader does this also. it causes scrolling to lock up on other pages and changes the cursor. the issue is the meta refresh tag in google and there is no setting within google to turn it off.

the solution is an extension called refreshblocker. refreshblocker addon
author's homepage

according to this mozillazine forum thread the tab mix plus and the noscript addons can disable meta refreshes also but may not work.

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If you are using Tab Mix Plus you can set tab permissions in context menu to not allow redirections.

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Notice that while current NoScript builds work fine either with Refresh Blocker or Tab Mix Plus, the aforementioned TMP "redirection blocking" feature doesn't play nice with Refresh Blocker (results are unpredictable).

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The NoScript extension has an option to block META redirections inside noscript elements. It works, but only on "Untrusted" sites though, i.e. JavaScript for the page has to be left disabled.

so far refreshblocker is working for me. i haven't tried the other methods.

another wild goose chase

or should i say wild penguin chase, lol.
i love exploring linux distros. whenever i see a new release or discover a distro i hadn't known about i immediately download the iso and create a virtual machine in virtualbox to explore it. today i discovered a netbook called Limepc that runs LimeOS linux but i could not find the iso image to download. previously i went looking for linpus or one of those other netbook distributions and couldn't find it either.
i'm confused. i must have a misunderstanding about GNU/Linux operating systems. i thought they were all supposed to be freely available for download. perhaps i'm just accustomed to pre-compiled releases and my lack of knowledge on how to compile source code is what prevents me from finding what i want. perhaps the source code is all a manufacturer is required to make available and if i want to see how it works then i'll have to learn how to compile the code or buy the machine.
i have the idea of making some kind of presentation of the different netbook systems available. i've seen gOS and i have a version of xandros but i can't find the others. oh well, i'll keep looking and see what i come up with.
btw...limepc looks pretty cool.



here's the page for Limepc

here's info about limefree project

wikipedia explains netbooks very well

wikipedia compares netbooks