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Found a cool medical HTML template at OSWD.
It’s XHTML compliant and has nice CSS features, without tables nor Javascript.

I found out some interesting tricks using gnuplot:
first, run the interactive program:
$gnuplot
type, in the shell, the following command
gnuplot> splot sin(x)+cos(y) with lines palette linewidth 4
Cool 3d output! You can even play with it making rotations and scales.
If you want to export it to a vector graphic and then edit it with Inkscape, type:
gnuplot> set […]

Another verse of the Book of Mozilla , not by Firefox or any Gecko software, but with Nvu!
Click on Help, About Nvu and click on Credits while holding “Shift” key.
You will be redirected to http://disruptive-innovations.com/book/0823.html, where you can read the following verse:

The elementals fought and sent back the armies of Mammon to the inner […]

I made some quick and dirty hacks on WordPress that are useful for me:

Fixed keyword meta-tag adding categories as keywords; no need to make a file, just added to header.php the following lines:
<?php $numcats = $wpdb->get_var(”SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->categories”); ?>
<meta name=”keywords” content=”<?php for ($i=1; $i< =$numcats;$i++) {print get_the_category_by_ID($i).’,';}?>Swobodin,blog” />
Added a plug-in that inserts images […]

The best Firefox extension I have ever downloaded is the HTML Validator, based on Tidy, the extension puts an icon at the foot of the browser, checking for each page whether it is or not a valid HTML or XHML.

If the icon is green (first picture), no validation error, thus the page is […]

 I’m actually using Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 aka Deer Park; too much faster than the stable version, but, as Beta, I experienced too many crashes and could not upgrade a huge number of extensions.
Hatem has suggested a little hack to “cheat” and manually upgrade the extensions using winrar; for UNIX users, if you want […]