I saw this van a few weeks ago and took a crappy picture of it with my Treo 750. It’s hard to make out the name of the company, but it said “Appetite for Construction”. And if you don’t get the joke, you need some Rock and Roll 101 basic training (don’t feel bad though, Ashley didn’t get it either).

My spelling tends to be pretty good, although I do make mistakes and a friend of mine always points them out to me (thanks Janak!). I’m not one of those types of people that resents being corrected because a correction is an opportunity to learn and grow. “Humility is the beginning of wisdom” or something like that. At any rate, between the spell checker not working in WordPress 2.1 (and 2.1.1 for that matter) and the Firefox spell checker not working in the WordPress posting interface, I was beginning to think that someone was trying to expose my sometimes poor spelling to the world. While I still can’t get the WordPress spell check working (and their support forums are strangely silent on the issue), I did manage to find a guy who created a plug-in for WordPress called FFspell that will magically enable the Firefox spell checker and allow it to work. I don’t know how something this obvious made it past the WordPress developers, but at least there’s a way to fix it. Three cheers for indy developers who create things to work around problems other developers create!

I was checking my email today and was alerted to a new service called Clipmarks. I’ve seen things like this before, but this implementation seemed pretty cool. And since I’m on the big blogging kick lately, I figured I’d check it out. I was amazed at what I saw on the install page:

A Firefox add-on released before the Internet Explorer version? This is the first time I’ve seen anything like this before - Firefox sure has made headway over the years! Regarding Clipmarks, I haven’t checked it out yet because like all Firefox add-ons, you have to restart the browser before it will work, and I have many tabs open and am in full work mode. It would be nice to not have to re-start Firefox whenever there was a new add-on installed.