Archive for May, 2006

Firefox and Thunderbird featurelets I want

I use Firefox and Thunderbird. (For the latter I recently switched from using mutt — the last luddite at work to finally switch to one of them new fangled GUI things for email.) Here are a couple fixes/featurelets that I want in them.

I set Firefox to open new URLs in a [...]

Borgå (Porvoo) church fire

Borgå is a lovely small town outside of Helsinki. My mom grew up on a farm nearby. The town is a popular tourist town — partly because of its proximity to Helsinki, its lovely waterfront and the gorgeous medieval Porvoo Cathedral pictured above. (Porvoo is the Finnish name, Borgå the Swedish.) My parents were married […]