EDIT: For those having this problem, try rebooting Windows. http://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4184 – thank you Joffre. (see comments).
I started having weirdness a couple of days ago with Firefox. First my Twitterfox plugin stopped working. Then I started having some general flakiness. I finally tracked it down to one specific add-on: Adblock Plus, which was breaking absolutely everything.
Even after a very comprehensive wipe of my Mozilla profile, every setting, every registry entry, every folder, every remnant of the program, and a completely new install of Firefox 3.5, everything breaks when I try to install Adblock Plus.
Here are the symptoms once I try to install it:
First off, there is no “ABP” stop sign button showing up.
Second, my statusbar has a resizing bar on top of it….
…which lets me expand a great big window of nothing.
I also get items missing (actually blank) on the popup menu…
…and the tools menu.
I can’t figure out what’s going on, why wipes and fresh installs are not fixing it, and I can’t find anything online about other people with this problem. Help!
For a brief time this afternoon, this was the “filmography” section of Michael Cera’s Wikipedia article:
After reading this story about overreacting to church bells, I was reminded of the bells at my old school, St. Bonaventure.
I don’t know if they do it now, but when I was there they used to ring the bells every quarter hour during the day. It was amazingly handy, since you could know rougly what time it was even if you weren’t wearing a watch. Or didn’t bother to look at it.
But the best thing was the songs that would play each day at noon. At 12, the full Westminster Chime and 12 bongs for the hour would be followed by a song. Quite often it was a hymn or classical piece, but two modern ones stick out in my memory.
For dreary, drizzly days, the person programming the bells would often be tempted to drop in “Singing In The Rain,” which would occasionally cause a few chuckles.
And it seemed to be almost a tradition that the last day before finals, the song at noon was almost always “If I Only Had A Brain.”
It’s hard to believe that I’ve managed to get by for 18 years without the bells tolling the hours of my life.
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