Kev

Just a reminder that the Child’s Play charity is looking for your help to provide children’s hospitals with games, books, and media to help make stays a little easier to take for the kids. This year hospitals in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax are taking part in Canada, along with several locations in the US and abroad. Hospitals create wishlists with Amazon, and you can pick and choose which hospital what you want to donate to, as well as what you want to donate.

It’s a great program, and while there are plenty of other charities out there, I love the idea of spreading a little gamer love over the holidays. Just something to consider.

one of the nice things about the moz platform is it’s extensibility. one of the really nice things about our community is how many people develop useful mods for that platform.

I’m constantly at war with my tabs, and locating the useful ones. enter FaviconizeTab and PermaTabs.

PermaTabs allows me to set a tab I can’t delete. In my case, the three starting tabs go to gmail, google calendar, and remember the milk. three tabs can take up a fair bit of real estate though, and that’s where the other extension comes in.

FaviconizeTab replaces the title text from the website with the website’s favicon. instead of a large tab, you get a nice little stub with a familiar icon.

this puts three useful apps in a place where I know they’re always going to be, without too much of an impact on window estate for browsing elsewhere.

kinda cool. now if I could only stay off flickr enough to get things done.

I was out for a walk with a friend this morning who was complaining about how the lid tab never locked in position and made unwanted advances on their nose. I pointed out the solution, which isn’t always obvious. The trucker’s baffle is also nice because it actually does reduce coffee sloshing out when you’re driving.

firefox car @ mozilla24 – nobihaya

In conjunction with Mozilla 24, our Japanese peeps pulled out a nifty Firefox-themed car as part of the Firefox Rock Festival there. Gen mentions that after Mozilla 24, the car will head to Nagoya to be entered in the largest custom car comp in Japan. Kaori’s got some more pics of the event on her photostream, as well.

I was feeling good about the day until I checked out Moggy’s latest post about the “new and improved” nerd test. At least the dorkiness is consistent, but I think the Internet vs. Sex question tipped the scales.

That said, my favourite fun fact was:

36.0% of all test takers would choose the Internet over sex, and
28.8% of married test takers prefer the Internet over sex.

The latter surprises me, I thought it’d be a higher percentage for sure.

I’ve been pretty good, so this morning decided to treat myself to some blueberry-walnut pancakes. They’re still pretty good for me, and they were very, very tasty. The recipe is from this month’s Runner’s World, but isn’t on the site yet.

Here it be:

1-1/2 cups whole milk
1 cup instant oats
3/4 cup sifted all-purpose flour (or a blend of white and whole wheat flours)
3/4 cup blueberries
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/4 cup oat flour or oat bran
2 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs, beaten

Pour milk over oats in a bowl. In a separate bowl sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Lightly stir eggs into oat mixture, then add dry ingredients and honey, stirring until combined. When the batter is thoroughly mixed, stir in the walnuts and blueberries. Ladle batches of batter onto pre-heated griddle or frying pan and cook until tops are bubbly, turning once to finish cooking on the other side. Makes around 8 pancakes (they’re of decent size, two is PLENTY).

Calories: 400 Fat: 16g Carbs: 52g Protein: 15g

This is fuel for my bike ride and workout, and it beats the crap out of McDonalds on multiple levels. I used about half the salt, and still found there to be a little too much for my liking (but I am not a fan of it). The author of the article says to not worry about the fat content of using whole milk, adding that it adds a lot of flavour, and is worth the extra running.

I concur.