I posted this Mozilla feature suggestion at the weblog of <a href="http://www.bath.ac.uk/~cs1spw/blog/">Simon Willison</a>, but it's been something I've thought about for a while so it's worth posting here for reference's sake.  The feature I most want in Mozilla is a regexp-based filter for replaced objects, namely images, flash objects, etc. Say I never want to see a flash presentation every again: I would create a filter that does a match for "\.swf" and any request for an object which matches is not carried out. If I'm morally opposed to ads from the nytimes (which serve ads from the same server as the stories, negating Mozilla's "block images by server" feature) then I could create a filter which matches "nytimes.com/ads". This isn't the user-friendliest feature (you need to be familiar with regexp's) but it sure would be cool.

Emacs come pre-installed on MacOS X. Woo!

Has the blog become the standard and possibly most efficient form of informational webpage?  Just like the window paradigm has taken a firm grip on the computer GUI scene, the blog seems ubiquitous in the web, though perhaps I'm looking at it from a very narrow perspective.  So far, all improvements on the window model have been experimental and not widely used.  I wonder if in the future it will be similar with blogs.  One counter-argument could be that weblogs are just very simple Content Management Systems (CMS), which are a convenient way of updating information in a digital form.

I'm looking for a job.  If you know of a teaching opportunity for an uncredentialed and minimally experienced person in the math and/or sciences, let me know please!  See my lastest resume in the <a href="resume/">resume folder</a>.