.farshid sedghi’s personal blog.

The other day, I came across this script for Grease Monkey in FireFox, a script that makes it a lot easier to view a picture link and I thought I would share it as I have found it to be very useful. And in case you just wanted the .js file.

Once in a while I post something about being different characters - Today’s is South Park and this is how I would look like if I was on the show. Try it yourself. [Thanks Peisser]

Ever wanted to open a word or excel document but the computer you are on doesn’t have it installed? Or worse, you need to create one and the same problem? Well, reading my RSS feeds, I saw these two links

Online Word on Writely.com Online Excel on iRows.com

FoxIt is a fast one file program that allows you to view PDF files. Personally I am so tired of the slow performance of Adobe Acrobat reader that I am more than happy to use this.

WhyReboot tell you what pending file operations are asking for reboot.

And finally, here is a link to a scientific and very cool calculator, called Calcoolate.

Serving at the Baha’i World Centre, I met so many amazing people. Some of these wonderful friends have their own blog and since it is getting more difficult to keep track of who has a blog and who does not, my dear friend Nafisto the great has come up with a wonderful initiative which helps to keep up to date with all the BWC friends’ blogs.

If you are one of those friends, or know a friend that served there as has a blog, let them know about this.

For those of you who like to contribute to global research, here is one. BBC has created a screen saver that model the earth’s climate change based on distributed computing (very much like the SETI project). You can read the FAQ as well as download the screen saver to contribute to this project on this site.

In other findings, here are a few links I came across the last few days.

• List of free software - from antivirus to 3D graphics
• Microsoft’s answer to Craigslist
• Improving your linksys wireless router

Photography is a dear hobby of mine and although I don’t quite have either the equipment that I would like to have nor that much time these days to enjoy it, coming across sites like World Press Photo really reminds me of my love for photography and how powerful conveying a message can be through this medium.

Looking at the top prize winners though, the winning contributions are telling only stories of misery, terror and war. A good refelection of the state of the world I guess…

Following a few blogs over the last few months a few links have grabbed my attention and here they are:

• Yahoo Research-Shopping Scrollbar Search - Try it for yourself!
• Yahoo Audio Search
• Yahoo Search Shortcuts or Open Search Short Cuts

On two completely different notes, for those of you that have wanted to learn regular expressions but still struggle, here is a good link explaining regular expressions. Also, if you are looking for a good calendar that is available online, can send reminders to you cell phone (sorry again this only works in US) and many other useful features Airset.com is a very good candidate.