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Comments on Monday 12 September 2005:
If you use Firefox, and read blogs in and around mine, you've probably encountered the use of title or acronym tags to provide mouseovers. I have always refused to use a Javascript workaround on my blog, because I shouldn't have to, the browser should bloody do it right, and also because the Javascript workaround solution wouldn't work on the Livejournal copy of the blog. But now, a workaround that I don't object to, because instead of fixing pages it fixes browsers. Hooray!

First, install GreaseMonkey - a Firefox extension that lets you put global or filtered Javascripts into websites. Also handy for removing, for example, iframes-of-advertising that keep refreshing annoyingly. Adblock will stop the ads but won't necessarily stop the refreshing. Removing the iframe entirely wins.

Then my modified version of Nik's old moz_fudge script should be installed as a userscript, which, once GreaseMonkey is installed, you can do by right-clicking here and selecting "Install User Script", with included pages "*". If its workings interfere annoyingly with any sites (I haven't encountered one yet) you can simply add that site's URL to the 'excluded pages' list. Hooray, proper working mouseovers like Firefox should have been doing internally 3 years ago! [01:26]

BIBISHOLA AKINSHOLA
HELLO..
I WANT YOU TO LEND ME SOME MONEY TO ADD WITH MINE , CAUSE I WANNA JOIN YOU SOON IN USA , PLEASE I WILL PAY YOU BACK,IF I DOESN'T OR REFUSE WE GO TO JURY FOR THAT O, PLEASE AM ON MY KNEELS OK, I'LL PAY YOU BACK ,JUST $ 2O,OOO OK, AM GONNA PAYYOU BACK, CAUSE AM A MUSICIAN IN MY COUNTRY HERE IN NIGERIA, I'LL BE GLAD IF YOU DO THAT OK, I LIVE AT
35,ARO STREET AMUKOKO.
LAGOS
23401
234-802-915-7864
MR BIBISHOLA,AAKINSHOLA

BIBISHOLA AKINSHOLA
PLEASE DO WHAT I ASK YOU TO OK PLEAEEEAS, I NEED THE MONEY EARLIER BYE, I LOVE YOUR SITE, HOPE YOU CAN DO WHAT I DEMAND FROM YOU, THANKS..
MR BIBISHOLA,AKINSHOLA

Anet
Hahahaha! Go on Raven, send the man some money... I'm sure he is trustworthy. Look how big he writes.
Thanks. I needed a laugh.

RavenBlack
Mm, and he only wants $20000! Bargain! But I'm not even in the USA, so he couldn't join me there and it would all be wasted. If I had been I'd surely have sent him $20000 in nonconsecutive small banknotes, in a huge envelope, though.

RavenBlack
I don't believe it's even a real nigerian scammer. They always offer a better incentive than "I'll pay you back", so I'm assuming it's one of those hilarious people that occasionally comes and plays a 'character' in my blog comments.

Anet
You are so generous. It is just your nature.

Anet
I think you may be right... Perhaps you should only send them $18000.

maxor
I have been getting a big kick recently out of giving people play money. It's fun and fairly harmless. Scams sure I'm out a few cents to send them $15000 in monopoly money but the look on the guys face when I hand it to them is priceless also have a bank account I closed a few years ago and the bank has since closed..... I give this number to our frindly local politiclub and the nigerian scammers I wonder how they feel when they get a message saying the aba routing number they are pulling from has been locked and is under investigation.

Digi
'Kneels' is an excellent typo.
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