A bug has been filed:
Currently it seems that the latest updated Addons having Problems to install since i get “Invalid file hash (possible download corruption) -261″
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424339
Hopefully this will get fixed soon.
Illness has finally run its course at my house, I think. I hope. We all had the flu and finally got rid of it. Then the stomach virus came. It was ruthless. My wife and 3 out of 4 of my kids all had the runs and the pukes. I was single parenting it for two days, and I again wonder how the hell legitimate single parents ever do what they do. Without my wife, I flail around and can manage to get just the basics accomplished. To all of the single moms and pops out there who actually raise their children and strive to excel at their professional and personal lives and make it- my hat is off to you, good sir or madam.
Asa is fascinated by the flickery white stuff floating down into our yard. He has no interest in touching the stuff, though, because it’s so damned cold outside.
Illness has ravaged my house. We are all passing the flu back and forth to each other like some virulent badminton game, but instead of using shuttlecocks, we’re using germs and bacteria. It’s far messier and less fun than badminton, too. I’m finally getting over my bout with it, but it really kicked my ass.
I haven’t been “sick” sick for almost twenty years. I was in bed with a fever of 102 for about three days this past week, and I felt like utter and complete crap. I will be one of the first in line next year to get a flu shot.
For some reason, I assumed flu shots were only for the young and the old, and I’m kind of in between in that gray area. A nurse practitioner informed me that, no, it’s just that the young and the old can die from the flu, but you’ll still be miserable.
I was also misinformed that the shot can give you flu-like symptoms. Apparently it’s a dead vaccine, but if you get the nasal mist application, then that contains a live virus and you will get the sniffles and such.
I’m ready for our house to be healthy again. I’m tired of bathing in Purell.
I made the decision a while ago to move all of my nerdy-tech stuff from a little web site called roachfiend.com to this one. I’m a big fan of simple, easy, one-place-for-all types of things. The way I have it now is just a total mess. So, this is just my own version of a warning label I’m sticking in the ether to let you know that there’s going to be an influx of nerdy posts arriving in probably short order. I think that I’m just going to host the actual files on Firefox’s site, though, and not here.
This was a tricky and hard thing to do. Let’s be honest, here. I enjoy money. I like to spend it, I like to receive it. Maybe that makes me materialistic. So, having all of my extensions on my own personal board was quite a draw- if you wanted BugMeNot, you had to come to my site. If you wanted ListZilla, you had to come to my site. You get the idea. Once you gather, say, two thousand people together on a web page- at least a couple of them will click on a link either out of curiosity, out of interest, or out of benevolent well-being. Moving all of these magnets onto a third-party site effectively removes these financial possibilities.
I think it’s time to let them go, though. They are open-source, after all, and I’d like to see them spread their wings and seek out larger audiences. I also tire of updating multiple extensions on multiple places, so perhaps giving them all one centralized home that doesn’t have to depend on my meager bandwidth is a more responsible thing to do. It also allows them to be updated and installed securely.
Back to moving. I will soon have basically all of my content switched over to here- some for historical sake, such as how to create Firefox extensions (which is slowly becoming outdated, but I genuinely think that it’s still useful and a good starting point for those who want to know more about it) and a few other random tutorials. I plan on having each individual extension ported over here also, but they will link to Firefox’s add on site for the actual installation file. I’ll just have the descriptions, screen shots, and so forth here.
So, like I said, this has been a slow, deliberate move, like a very determined sloth who has been set on fire. I also want to have a space that I can just write whatever the hell I want, and not be limited to Firefox extensions and “random technological tidbits.” I think I have a few interesting things to say. Well, I guess that’s subjective. Only time will tell, I suppose.