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"You know"

"You know", actually I don't, which is why I'm listing, if I did I would be doing something else, like reading a book. It seams that an American add-on to the English language have been spreading to the rest of the civilized world; most sentences are littered with "you know" as if the interviewer know exactly what the person they are talking to is thinking, and so it would seam the people who are watching, or listing to the radio. Please stop using useless terms, in this case "you know", it makes you look as if you actually do not know how to form a sentence appropriately. And, even more, look like you actually do not know what you're talking about.

Control Firefox memory consumption

Firefox has become a memory hog, it will do it best to use all the memory available, or so it seams. I sometimes see that Firefox uses more than 1GB Ram, which will grind my computer to halt, or make everything else very slow. According to this , there is a simple way to make sure that Firefox doesn't use too much memory. Use the configuration editor (url: about:config) Find 'browser.cache.memory.enable' and change it to 'false' Add 'browser.cache.memory.capacity' as an integer, and set it to 4096 Restart Firefox, it should not behave itself.

Markus Heitz - The Dwarves & The war of the Dwarves

Lately I've been reading way to much fantasy, mostly do to the fact of not enough good science fiction available, but also because there is actually some good fantasy out there. Markus Heitz - The Dwarves & The war of the Dwarves are the first two books in a series of 4, the last two have not yet been translated from German. Short: we follow a dwarf; Tungdil who is a blacksmith through some pleasent and very unpleasent things, and as this is fantacy everything ends in a very pink way. Both books are good for a weekend on the sofa.