Cameron's Thoughts

Google always seems to impress me and the chat client in Gmail is just the newest thing they have impressed me with. But, it's hard to know when you get new messages. Saw this the other day and thought I would pass it along.

http://ftp.rz.tu-bs.de/pub/mirror/downloads.mozdev.org/click2tab/gchatalert.xpi

This adds a new message sound that alerts you of new mail. It's the same sound AIM uses for new messages. Very, very useful.

So, I'm at work, and guess what shows up on my caller ID. "Superhero".

It actually was the first part of their business name, but I thought it was funny to see just plain Superhero as the name on the caller ID.
Obviously I am really bored right now and easily amused.

There isn't much here yet, but soon I am working on a new site with the tentative name of Cameron Bulock .com. This will be a place where I can do some experimenting with different web projects and things and will be a place where I can do some web-based things outside of the scope of this blog. Any way's, just wanted to get this link out, come by and check back at this site sometime in the future.

Good news for my hosting bill last month. My intentions have never been to make any money off of this site, but I would love to someday break even on my costs for running this site. Each month I get closer and closer to that goal. Last month, with the money I got off of my Adsense ads from Google, I only ended up $0.87 short for the month. That is so close. Yes, the hosting was only 87 cents for the whole month. Of course that's not counting all the time I put into this site. But, soon, this site at least won't give me any financial burden. That's always a good thing.

I had previously posted about the Mozilla search plugin I created for this site. That will work in any Mozilla based browser such as Netscape or Firefox. Now, if you check the plugin page, I also have a search plugin that works in the upcoming Internet Explorer 7. I didn't have to actually 'create' this as Microsoft actually did something really smart and their search box supports OpenSearch. As this site is already has OpenSearch 1.1 setup, I just have to create a link for IE to see the OpenSearch description document. For more info on how to point IE to this, check out the IE7 search provider directory.