Jul 09
One of my favorite Firefox extensions has always been DictionarySearch. It seems like I am forever wanting to know the definition of words. Most of the time I know the word and know what it means, but I start to think, what does that mean exactly? DictionarySearch is perfect because all you have to do [...] [...more]
Posted: under Internet.
One of my favorite Firefox extensions has always been DictionarySearch. It seems like I am forever wanting to know the definition of words. Most of the time I know the word and know what it means, but I start to think, what does that mean exactly? DictionarySearch is perfect because all you have to do is highlight a word and then on the right click context menu there will be an option to do a dictionary search for said word (it’s exceptionally handy to be able to do this for google as well….)
The extension originally used dictionary.com to look things up. This always worked well with me because I actually used that site to look up words before I even used Firefox and hence did it by hand (doing a google search for “define: ” can be handy as well…). At some point some time back, they switched from dictionary.com to TheFreeDictionary. I was initially somewhat skeptical. In fact, I originally went into the extension’s configuration and added a second option to search on the original site as well. I did this because dictionary.com would occasionally give definitions for words when TFD wouldn’t. Also, dictionary.com can be kind of handy because it will display the definition from multiple sources often times.
Over time, I began to use TFD more and more and it’s pretty much all I use now (though I do still use google sometimes). I TFD more and more handy in particular because you can search other type of dictionaries, the thesaurus, and best yet, wikipedia. However, it was just a few minutes ago that I truly fell in love.
I was read a legal definition of something and decided to look up a word. It was a word I knew, but, especially in a legal definition, it’s nice to know exactly what the word means (or can mean). So I looked it up. In it’s definition there was another word that was in the same boat as the one I just looked up. I went ahead and double clicked on it so it would highlight and I could do search…..
….And this is the cool part…… I never made it to the right click. They have a script running on their site that will perform a search on any word that you double click on… how cool is that? Talk about a fast and easy way to look up a bunch of stuff quickly…
Okay, so it’s really sad that this is the huge exciting thing…..but hey, I thought it was cool…. 
Jul 09
So I’m 24 for real now (I have been for the better part of a week really….).
I feel so much more mid-twenties now instead of early-twenties….
At times like this I can reflect…..though perhaps I shouldn’t. Where to begin. I’ve been in college for 6 years now. I’ve got a solid 3 years [...] [...more]
Posted: under Personal.
So I’m 24 for real now (I have been for the better part of a week really….).
I feel so much more mid-twenties now instead of early-twenties…. 
At times like this I can reflect…..though perhaps I shouldn’t. Where to begin. I’ve been in college for 6 years now. I’ve got a solid 3 years or so of actual work done. Yay me. On the up side, I’m really not that far from being done. It’s also crazy to think that I could finish in 4 years seeing as though I at times work 60 hours a week and I have a life outside of work and school as well. Still, I should be farther. Technically, I should be done. If you were to add up all the credits from classes that I’ve failed/had to drop/whatever then I’d either have enough to graduate or be quite close. I could be making more money / working less and doing something that I enjoy (or at least that I would enjoy more than what I’m doing now). Oh well…
At least I have other things to show for the last 6 years since I graduated from HS and moved away from home. Like…er…. hmm. Well, technically, I do, but I have a hard time feeling OK with things as I know that I still have problems that keep me from doing “well” at anything. Furthermore, for the most part, these problems are just a pattern that has repeated over and over and over for years now. Maybe someday I’ll find a way to break through…
The last point actually kept me from enjoying my time off this last week too much. I had a 4 day weekend, but it just didn’t work out well. I had too much time on my hands and didn’t accomplish what I wanted to. That’s the same thing that always happens. On top of that, I couldn’t let go of the fact that I knew that things were fucked up…. I couldn’t just enjoy what I was doing because it felt like it didn’t matter.
