• July
  • 31st
  • 2007

BoingBoing on Drunk Astronauts

My favorite website, BoingBoing, has made a big mistake by naming Homer Simpson “Drunk Astronaut Pioneer”. That is a big mistake, since the pioneer of them all is nobody except Captain Archibald Haddock.

Captain Haddock, drunk in space

In the Explorers on the Moon (On a marché sur la Lune) book of series The Adventures of Tintin, Captain Haddock sneaks some bottles of Whisky and gets drunk in space. Since this book was published in 1954, there would be no doubt that Homer Simpson is not even in the game.

  • July
  • 2nd
  • 2007

ip info greasemonkey script

It usually happens that while I am reading an e-mail or viewing a stat report online, I want to quickly check the IP address information of sender. For instance just to see if the IP of sender is actually from the city the claimed person is in. This is not a big deal, I can copy and paste the IP too. But well that would not be me ;-)

my yahoo mail, ip

For this I had written a greasemonkey script at least a year and half ago, which surprisingly still works! It converts the IP format numbers in the page to links to www.dnsstuff.com IP information page. Only install greasemonkey using link #1, and then click on the link #2. Firefox will prompt to install this.