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Chrome is now my primary browser, and Adblock Plus is an amazing open source plugin to block browser-based advertisements.  It’s interesting that Google, a company that makes money selling ads, keeps Adblock Plus in the chrome web store.

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is incredible.  These links bring back fond memories of past projects:

WorthGuide Inc.

Castalia Technologies

Momentum is an elegant plug-in for Google’s Chrome browser that reminds you to stay focused when starting a new browser tab.  It’s a very simple reminder that you probably have something better to do than surf the web.

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” ― Will Rogers

HTTrack is a very handy open source website downloader the offline browsing.  It follows links and downloads all html, images, css, and javascript.  Plus, HTTrack will create nice summary index page of the downloaded sites.

The Delphi Geek offers this helpful pattern to catch casting issues when dealing with pointers:

Deferred crash: TMyObject(aPtr)

Immediate crash: TObject(aPtr) as TMyObject

And it’s always best to crash sooner than later…

I moved this blog from dasBlog on WinHost and WordPress on HostGator today with the help of these sites: Bob Cravens, A Little Blog, Paul van Brenk, and DevelopDaly.

I used the Uber black car service for the first time today.  The experience was fantastic.  After my first trip, I received this email:

If you want a $20 Uber signup bonus, please use code 6a6zh.  You’ll get a $20 credit and I’ll get a $20 credit.  From their email “It’s the ultimate Uber win-win”.

In the Delphi IDE, from the menu select Tools > Configure Tools. The commands below will operate on the current file in the IDE editor.

/command:log /path:$EDNAME

/command:blame /path:$EDNAME /line:$ROW /notempfile

/command:revert /path:$EDNAME

$SAVE /command:diff /path:$EDNAME

/command:revisiongraph /path:$EDNAME