I have created one more plugin for firefox, this one is useful for users of Movabletype.

The plugin allows the user to search the excellent MTLookup site from within the firefox browser. This was created as I recently wanted to look something up using MTLookup, and for some reason I could not remember the name of the site, and I had not bookmarked it as it was an obvious name! Doh!

Previous plugins include the search box for this site, as well as a search box for BorisBlog.

It seems reasonable at this point to reference the extension ‘SearchPluginHacks‘.

More MT related firefox plugins can be found here

(Update: This plugin linked to by the creator of mtlookup - I just hope that a rewrite is not needed when V3 of mtlookup is created!)

No2ID has posted links to the DVD which the government produced to promote it’s ID card scheme, at a cost of 250 quid per copy. The original was on The Register

One has to admire the chutzpa of the home office, when they say: The Identity Cards Programme has produced a short video clip which seeks to answer why identity cards are necessary and how the scheme will work (my emphasis)

The video is here, with a redubbed version here. The redubbed version is very well done.

Putting all the usual objections aside: ‘Candidates would be asked to provide any existing identity document to help authenticate their personal details’ - call me naive, but is this not a weak link?

On saturday, a meteor (or probably just a lump of rock instead of a loosely packed ’snowball’) entered the Earth’s atmosphere above Perth in Australia. Heating, and finally exploding about 100km above the surface. I have seen a report which claim that it was about basketball sized, and another report that says that it was about the size of half a volkswagen (not completely inconsistant for a lump of rock, but one of these does seem a bit off).

Apparently the ‘meteor’ bits landed in the southern ocean.

It made an impressive show.

Larger impacts are rare, but they do happen. A very large impact is thought to have brought about the last mass extinction.