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How to fix a recent Adblock bug in Facebook profiles

Thursday, May 21st, 2009, 9:17 pm PDT

When you’re looking at profiles on Facebook, is there a giant gap in the center (the left side of the right column)? If so, it’s probably due to their latest CSS update, which the Adblock Plus subscription list has not yet adjusted for. Odds are it will be fixed really soon, but until then, here’s a hack to fix it:

  • The hard way:
    1. Go to the chrome directory in your Firefox profile directory. If you’re not sure where that is, it’s probably easiest to find it by:
      1. Windows users, go to Windows Run (type the Windows key + r) and then enter:
        %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\
        Mac users, open:
        ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/
        Linux users, open:
        ~/.mozilla/firefox/
      2. Then, open the directory that has “default” on the end of it. (Odds are there will only be one).
      3. Then, open the “chrome” directory.
    2. Create a file called userContent.css
    3. In Notepad, edit that file to have just this in it: .profile .right_column_container .profile_sidebar_ads { height: 1px; }
    4. Save the file and restart Firefox
  • The easy way:
    1. Save this userContent.css fix file to the directory found in step 1 of the hard way above. If you already have a userContent.css file there, you’ll need to append the contents of it.
The economy is starting to remind me of the boiling frog story. And I don't know if we're already boiled.

NACA tries being subliminal

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008, 3:05 am PDT

In searching for more information about some of the smaller candidates here (believe it or not, I don’t just vote straight ticket), I came across the North Austin Civil Association. This organization represents a tiny part of the city, less than five percent of the Austin population. But while at their site, I noticed something subtle.

NACA highlights a few biased letters on their site

Look at the highlighted letters: o, b, a, m, and a, in a sentence about not supporting a specific candidate. If you’re going to support someone, just come out and say it. Unless they’re being sarcastic (I don’t really know anything about them), this is the type of stuff that only comes back to hurt people and groups later on.

It's always seemed odd to me that people say "100% all natural." Aren't the "100%" and the "all" redundant?
If you and your friends can agree upon the best track on an album, it's probably not a very good album.
Kayak acquired SideStep (709 words), my part-time employer, for $196 million. Hopefully Extended Info can be saved. (Update: it can.)
It's funny how much effort we invest into goodbyes. If only the rest of our interaction was equally energetic. We squeeze all of our conversation into the short-term ones. We squeeze all of our future longing into the long-term ones.

Headphones create an incomprehensible reality.

Friday, October 5th, 2007, 6:49 am PDT

Closed headphones are the craziest shit in the world. How can I be listening to music this loud without the people cramped up next to me even knowing?

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