2010-11-20

stoutfellow: (Winter)
2010-11-20 07:04 am
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Block That Block!

One of the relatively few Firefox add-ons that I use is AdBlock Plus. I'm generally pretty happy with the results. However....

I visit the Daily Kos website with some frequency. ABP, in its wisdom, has apparently decided that that entire site is an ad; the site opens and I see nothing but a blank page. It's definitely ABP's doing - disabling it allows me to see the site.

I can't figure out how to tell ABP not to block a specific site. Anybody know?
stoutfellow: (Three)
2010-11-20 06:56 pm
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Cognition

Buster's current favorite toy is a squeaky-ball, made of light green rubber. He will actually play fetch with it - or at least an approximation: I toss the ball, he brings it back - and stands there, daring me to take it from him. The ball is light enough that I can toss it within the house, with no fear of damage to anything. (The Blob, on the other hand, is hard and heavy enough that I don't dare do more than roll it for him. It could hurt him if it bounced in the wrong direction, not to mention the possibility of breaking something.) As usual, there are obstacles - open boxes, a wastebasket, and the like.

Today, while playing with Buster, I tossed the ball towards the dining room; he was expecting me to throw it in another direction, and didn't see where it went. I pointed, and he went tearing in the right direction... but couldn't find the ball. (It had rolled into a far corner, blocked from view by the dining room table.) Baffled, he walked over to the waste basket and tried to peer inside. It's a little too tall for him, but he knew it had gone in there before - or, at least, I had once produced the ball from its interior.

I don't know which is more amusing: his silliness in not looking behind the table, or his canniness in suspecting the wastebasket.