.farshid sedghi’s personal blog.

Check out (works on on FireFox) this very cool XUL app to search books on Amazon. http://www.faser.net/mab/chrome/content/mab.xul

XUL (XML User Interface Language) is a user interface markup language developed to support Mozilla applications like Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. Like UIML, it is an application of XML that describes user interfaces. The acronym is pronounced zool, to rhyme with “cool”.

This week I started my new work and it is really fun to get back into it. Put aside the first month or two where everything is a blur and you are trying to get your head around all the details of what you are doing and are supposed to know and do, the project that I am working on is an exciting one. It is a product by Micrsoft that is still in beta testing and is called Windows OneCare Live, which is combined antivirus, firewall, back up and tune up application.  I am working on the security policy of the firewall and it is an interesting project for sure. So my frequency of posting might dip for the next month or two as all my focus is on getting up to speed as soon as possible.

For those of you who read the digg.com RSS feed, as you know when you want to read an article, you get sent to digg.com website and then have to click on the link again to get redirected to the link. No more of that with this script as it will directly redirect you to the website of the article.

I am publishing it here since the original script did not work and I had to fix it. Hope you find this useful too. Also for many more greasemonkey scripts visit userscripts.org