Re: [Amc-list] Hot Air, was California Smog Bill

["Kelly Hardie" <ramblinguy.kelly@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the Firefox extension, that goes on the must have list with
Adblock, colortabs, bookmark synchronizer, etc...

Kelly

On 10/1/07, Sandwich Maker <adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> " From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> "
> "
> " > " > 2. handheld gps is good enough
> " > " I use a map, remember those, paper ewe! My conscession is to print
> them
> " > out from mapquest and google!
> " >
> " > i prefer paper too.
> " >
> " > i go one farther and partially memorize the directions.  another trick
> " > i learned long ago is to look for the street -before- the one you want
> " > to turn on.  how many times do you realize you should've turned just
> " > as you're passing the intersection?  spotting the previous street sets
> " > you up.
> "
> "
> " I'm not sure if this is good or bad -- googleearth is so profoundly
> " spectacularly alien and weird that it's utterly changed the way I do
> long
> " road trips.
>
> i haven't used google much, because of their habit of sucking up every
> keystroke you enter and building a profile of you they keep forever[*],
> but i used mapquest extensively in planning my last two long trips.  i
> refuse to slavishly follow their directions when i'm on familiar
> ground [circumnavigating nyc on easter eve], and i chose to stay on rt
> 9 in the adirondacks rather than jump on the thruway and off again in
> less than 10 miles.  it's very helpful in cutting the navigation
> problem down to where i only have to fiddle with details.
>
> * for firefox et al, there's a google anonymiser add-on -
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/743 - though you have
> to go into its control panel and set it to anonymise.  it can also
> clean ads up and peg security settings.  more privacy and security
> enhancing add-ons at
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:12?show=50
> i've installed about 8 or 10 of them.
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