I have a 4-node Windows LAN here at work and I want to run our own ircd so we can use irc internally for communications. Any hint or tips to quickly and easily setting up an irc daemon?

The AppScout website is a nice daily blog that doesn't get mentioned enough on DC.  Today there was a nice entry about some recent competing thoughts on using css vs using tables for laying out web pages.  I've had enough experiences cursing out css to consider myself in the camp that is not convinced that css is the holy grail..

This is all a lead-in to the pissing match in-progress between two groups of web developers. It pits tables against CSS (cascading style sheets). The prevailing wisdom has been tables are bad for you--bad for the environment. Using table is like smoking cigarettes... in a nursery school. CSS is touted as a much more elegant and controllable method (even though it isn't) of design. In 2009 only a schlemiel would use tables...
And then he proceeds to compile a laundry list of the largest most unbreakable sites around--and they're all using tables! Ron Garret adds a little fuel to the fire with point-by-point examples worthy of a closing argument on Law & Order (though on an otherwise awful looking page) showing CSS break where tables thrive.

http://www.appscout...._tables_ver.php#more

The blog entry is pretty brief and points to the following essays arguing for using tables or css:

• http://iamelgringo.b...s-trolls-begone.html
• http://www.newmediac...d-be-used-for-layout

As I was getting up to date with my list of feeds, I saw two videos posted in one of the few blogs about design I'm suscribed to, that looked particularly interesting judging by their description.

The first one is amazingly cool, I love it. Called "Western Spaghetti", it shows a recipe for spaghetti with very particular ingredients.


The second one is a music video of a song by Oren Lavie^w called "Her Morning Elegance". The video shows that elegance, and the song is not bad.


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Defense Grid: The Awakening is a high quality Tower Defense game created by Hidden Path Entertainment. The story is that hundreds of years previously, a bunch of aliens attacked. After the aliens were (barely) defeated, the General who commanded the armies (or whatever) had his brain downloaded into a Defense Grid in case they ever attacked again. Well, now they are attacking again, and the Defense Grid awakens. That is, the Defense Grid is the AI that controls all aspects of the towers. Aiming, firing, building, upgrading, etc. You're just the guy who tells the Grid where to put stuff. The power cores provide electricity to the grid and that's why if they're all stolen, it's game over--because when they're gone, all the defenses power down.

The objective of the game, like all TD games, is to build defense towers along a path to prevent the aliens from reaching your base. Your "base" in this game is really the location of the power cores. It differs from most TD games I've played in that when the aliens actually reach the power cores and take them, they don't just disappear and the power core is not immediately lost forever^*. Instead, the aliens have to make their escape with the power cores. This gives you a chance to recover them if you kill them before they escape. When an alien carrying a power core is killed, the power core slowly makes its way back to the base. But if any other aliens are nearby, they can pick it up wherever it is when they reach it and start running toward the exit.

Title says it all really, I've got a few hundred bookmarks now. More often than not I want to find something on a page I bookmarked, but the bookmarking mechanism in Firefox - as opposed to Opera - only allows you to search through url and title (and tags).

What's the best way to search through actual page content? I hope someone's made an extension that indexes bookmarks page content periodically in the background that I can search through.