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I’m working at home today. As usual, my son Jacob is looking over my shoulder.

He really likes playing flash games at PBS Kids. I have the flashblock extension installed on Firefox to make browsing the web more nag-free. As a result of the flashblock, Jacob has learned (wrongly) that behind every “click-2-flash” is a kids game. The only thing more annoying then viewing flash ads is being asked repeatedly to click them.

“Dad, can you click that?”

“Don’t you like games?”

“Can you *please* click that?”

“Dad, can I play now?”

“Are you ever going to click that?”

I’ve been a bad boy. The Bug-me-not Firefox extension has allowed me to refine my trolling skills with previously unimagined ease.

1. Browse some lame site.
2. Find comment that needs trolling
3. Right click on login box
4. Login as some random user via Bug-me-not
5. Troll as needed

Please, whatever you do, feed the trolls! :)

I thought y’all might like to know what people are searching for when they find the Utah Open Source Planet.
Here you go…

1. utah open source planet
2. utah perl mongers
3. open clue utah
4. preferred roaming list hack
5. centos 4.2 bootloader configuration
6. rpm download bond httpd-2.2.0-5.1.2
7. perl bot to play legend of the green dragon
8. baby blue gerolsteiner specialized bike
9. boot loader centos 4.2 configuration
10. 2006.0 network gentoo “old way” wiki
11. (brenda white utah suv)
12. twaingle
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14. woman chases husband through office building in utah
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23. utah planet rss feed
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25. opensuse 10 rpm source ipw2200
26. open source isp billing
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29. installing opensuse 10.1 rc3 over network
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33. dallin quass
34. this old bbs utah
35. metacity jerk 2.14
36. brenda white in utah
37. open graphics planet
38. connect to server in xubuntu
39. pastebin php src
40. centos bdc
41. poke mon ruby planet
42. configure wlan0 linus ubuntu distro
43. define denial of service attack
44. the best hacks for stick arena
45. reviews of glenn beck on cnn
46. malt o meal employee benefits
47. download zooltone
48. utah “open source” rss
49. fedora change text color bash shell blue too dark
50. tell me you didn’t read this far!

OK, the last one is made-up.

P.S. Get your worthless OpenSource buddies to join the Planet!

There is this new thing called “broadband” and together with this other new thing called “bittorrent” you never have to download things at <56k again!

I love 2006!

I’m a little surprised that MySpace is getting it’s own IM service. My initial reaction was, “I hope it runs XMPP (or jabber) and not yet another protocol.” But after thinking about it for a while, I decided that some walled gardens are a good thing. Let’s hope the walls are 12 feet high and have barbed-wire to keep all the Emo Kids in.

No, I will not add sk8Rkid to my buddie list!

I’ve been busy this weekend hacking together a little something I call ZoolTone.

What is it you ask?

It’s a Firefox extension (my first, but not last) that will allow you to “Click and Dial” phone numbers on a web page. It adds a pretty little icon after every phone number it finds. When you click the icon, it sends a message to Asterisk to make the call. Asterisk then rings your phone with the caller id of the number you clicked. When you answer, it connects you to the other party. It should be pretty sweet for offices that run Asterisk.

It’s called ZoolTone because it’s written with JavaScript and XUL which is pronounced “zool.” I kept all the logic in the backend to make it easy to add Thunderbird support later. It would be so sweet to be reading a business email and call that person simply by clicking on the phone number at the bottom of page.

With real work starting on Monday, this will get neglected for a bit. I do hope to have a working version out in a week or so. Any longer would kill me.

Let’s hope that we can get a sweet Planet going on for Utah’s Open Source community! If you are reading this via the Planet and are an Open Source blogger, join us!

I can’t quite put my finger on it, but something isn’t right about this email…

There is a new Planet hosted at OpenClue for Open Source hackers/users/zealots who are active in the Utah community. Why would OpenClue host this? From their web page:

We believe in Open Source. We believe in sharing information.”

Let’s hope that sharing these feeds will make Utah’s Open Source community a little bit stronger :)

I thought this web traffic map for my site was interesting (first 500 visitors of the year)…

Most of my visitors are Open Source loving admins or programmers. Specifically, they tend to be Asterisk hackers. To me, this kinda seems like a map of hot-spots for Open Source.

P.S. Although I’m in UT, I think the big dot in AZ is really me.