Alison there is no such thing as favourites. When they utterly disappoint you next year believe me you won't have any favourites. Grow thicker skin like every other university professor. Don't get me wrong it is a good thing to be friendly to students but as a teacher you have to be more professional. I would almost say detached to a degree, by giving them good marks or preferential treatment because they are your "favourite" isn't doing them any good.

It's way too early to be thinking anything right now. I'm not even buzzed on coffee yet.

unfortunately, no.

i hope you all have some costumed fun, everyone... i shall be digging shallow holes in the forest instead. and trying my darndest to figure out ways to not like my students... or my prospective students for next year...

Halloween??

Thought I'd invite y'all over to my house Saturday night around 8 for a almost-Halloween shindig. I thought we'd give the bonfire thing one more try, weather permitting (ie - if there is no moisture falling from the sky, so bring your mitties!) and if not then whatever you want to do is fine by me. There is an Oilers game (I'm sure we could come up with a drinking game or two around that, for those so inclined) or whatever. Sardines perhaps, if we haven't decided we're too old for that (it's Halloween - we're allowed to be a little childish).

Bring whoever/whatever you want.

Well, that's easy to fix, P. Change "browser.tabs.closeButtons" to 3 from 1.

Thanks, Par. Perhaps the only dislike I have of Firefox v2.0 is that they moved the close button for each of the tabs, but that is something I've grown accustomed to rather than an actual problem.

uh-oh... i think i've started to pick 'favourites' and that's a big no-no

what to do, what to do...

If you're using Firefox 2.0 and you noticed a change to the search behaviour from the address bar, that's because there is one. Instead of doing the "I'm Feeling Lucky" search, the default behaviour is to send it to Google's Browse By Name service. Which, for my money, isn't as good as I'm Feeling Lucky.

How do you change it, you ask? Good question.

1. Go to "about:config" (type that into the address bar)


2. Search for "keyword.URL"


3. Change the value to "http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q="

Didn't you ask CinO the same question?

(Oh, and I have no idea.)

The PPV game tonight is being broadcast on TVU. Are we going anywhere to watch or should I just stay home?

Thanks Albert.

And WebCT sucks just as bad as IE.