Comments on: Copying blacklist domains for the attention and gesture recorder http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/07/19/copying-blacklist-domains-for-the-attention-and-gesture-recorder/ The journal of Paul M. Watson Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:32:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta1 hourly 1 By: cori http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/07/19/copying-blacklist-domains-for-the-attention-and-gesture-recorder/comment-page-1/#comment-8331 cori Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:44:11 +0000 http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/07/19/copying-blacklist-domains-for-the-attention-and-gesture-recorder/#comment-8331 Actually, Paul, there's an easier way...<br><br>In Firefox's about:config page copy the values from "attention.blackListDomains" to "gesturebank.blackListDomains". Saves you from having to go to your profile folder to find the information. Also, I believe that user prefs from prefs.js only update when you close Firefox, so domains blacklisted in your current session won't be in that value.<br><br>Ideally, you're right. I would necessarily want to have my only copy of my blacklist file stored on the cloud, so a local cache makes sense, but being able to point a browser at an online source would enable not only synching between machines, but also opens the possibility that if you serve your attention stream to multiple services you can have a separate blacklist file for each, should that be desirable. Actually, Paul, there’s an easier way…

In Firefox’s about:config page copy the values from “attention.blackListDomains” to “gesturebank.blackListDomains”. Saves you from having to go to your profile folder to find the information. Also, I believe that user prefs from prefs.js only update when you close Firefox, so domains blacklisted in your current session won’t be in that value.

Ideally, you’re right. I would necessarily want to have my only copy of my blacklist file stored on the cloud, so a local cache makes sense, but being able to point a browser at an online source would enable not only synching between machines, but also opens the possibility that if you serve your attention stream to multiple services you can have a separate blacklist file for each, should that be desirable.

]]> By: cori http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/07/19/copying-blacklist-domains-for-the-attention-and-gesture-recorder/comment-page-1/#comment-8018 cori Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:44:11 +0000 http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/07/19/copying-blacklist-domains-for-the-attention-and-gesture-recorder/#comment-8018 Actually, Paul, there's an easier way...<br><br>In Firefox's about:config page copy the values from "attention.blackListDomains" to "gesturebank.blackListDomains". Saves you from having to go to your profile folder to find the information. Also, I believe that user prefs from prefs.js only update when you close Firefox, so domains blacklisted in your current session won't be in that value.<br><br>Ideally, you're right. I would necessarily want to have my only copy of my blacklist file stored on the cloud, so a local cache makes sense, but being able to point a browser at an online source would enable not only synching between machines, but also opens the possibility that if you serve your attention stream to multiple services you can have a separate blacklist file for each, should that be desirable. Actually, Paul, there’s an easier way…

In Firefox’s about:config page copy the values from “attention.blackListDomains” to “gesturebank.blackListDomains”. Saves you from having to go to your profile folder to find the information. Also, I believe that user prefs from prefs.js only update when you close Firefox, so domains blacklisted in your current session won’t be in that value.

Ideally, you’re right. I would necessarily want to have my only copy of my blacklist file stored on the cloud, so a local cache makes sense, but being able to point a browser at an online source would enable not only synching between machines, but also opens the possibility that if you serve your attention stream to multiple services you can have a separate blacklist file for each, should that be desirable.

]]> By: cori http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/07/19/copying-blacklist-domains-for-the-attention-and-gesture-recorder/comment-page-1/#comment-10579 cori Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:44:11 +0000 http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/07/19/copying-blacklist-domains-for-the-attention-and-gesture-recorder/#comment-10579 Actually, Paul, there's an easier way...<br><br>In Firefox's about:config page copy the values from "attention.blackListDomains" to "gesturebank.blackListDomains". Saves you from having to go to your profile folder to find the information. Also, I believe that user prefs from prefs.js only update when you close Firefox, so domains blacklisted in your current session won't be in that value.<br><br>Ideally, you're right. I would necessarily want to have my only copy of my blacklist file stored on the cloud, so a local cache makes sense, but being able to point a browser at an online source would enable not only synching between machines, but also opens the possibility that if you serve your attention stream to multiple services you can have a separate blacklist file for each, should that be desirable. Actually, Paul, there’s an easier way…

In Firefox’s about:config page copy the values from “attention.blackListDomains” to “gesturebank.blackListDomains”. Saves you from having to go to your profile folder to find the information. Also, I believe that user prefs from prefs.js only update when you close Firefox, so domains blacklisted in your current session won’t be in that value.

Ideally, you’re right. I would necessarily want to have my only copy of my blacklist file stored on the cloud, so a local cache makes sense, but being able to point a browser at an online source would enable not only synching between machines, but also opens the possibility that if you serve your attention stream to multiple services you can have a separate blacklist file for each, should that be desirable.

]]> By: cori http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/07/19/copying-blacklist-domains-for-the-attention-and-gesture-recorder/comment-page-1/#comment-12064 cori Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:44:11 +0000 http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/07/19/copying-blacklist-domains-for-the-attention-and-gesture-recorder/#comment-12064 Actually, Paul, there's an easier way...<br><br>In Firefox's about:config page copy the values from "attention.blackListDomains" to "gesturebank.blackListDomains". Saves you from having to go to your profile folder to find the information. Also, I believe that user prefs from prefs.js only update when you close Firefox, so domains blacklisted in your current session won't be in that value.<br><br>Ideally, you're right. I would necessarily want to have my only copy of my blacklist file stored on the cloud, so a local cache makes sense, but being able to point a browser at an online source would enable not only synching between machines, but also opens the possibility that if you serve your attention stream to multiple services you can have a separate blacklist file for each, should that be desirable. Actually, Paul, there’s an easier way…

In Firefox’s about:config page copy the values from “attention.blackListDomains” to “gesturebank.blackListDomains”. Saves you from having to go to your profile folder to find the information. Also, I believe that user prefs from prefs.js only update when you close Firefox, so domains blacklisted in your current session won’t be in that value.

Ideally, you’re right. I would necessarily want to have my only copy of my blacklist file stored on the cloud, so a local cache makes sense, but being able to point a browser at an online source would enable not only synching between machines, but also opens the possibility that if you serve your attention stream to multiple services you can have a separate blacklist file for each, should that be desirable.

]]> By: cori http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/07/19/copying-blacklist-domains-for-the-attention-and-gesture-recorder/comment-page-1/#comment-14440 cori Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:44:11 +0000 http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/07/19/copying-blacklist-domains-for-the-attention-and-gesture-recorder/#comment-14440 Actually, Paul, there's an easier way...<br><br>In Firefox's about:config page copy the values from "attention.blackListDomains" to "gesturebank.blackListDomains". Saves you from having to go to your profile folder to find the information. Also, I believe that user prefs from prefs.js only update when you close Firefox, so domains blacklisted in your current session won't be in that value.<br><br>Ideally, you're right. I would necessarily want to have my only copy of my blacklist file stored on the cloud, so a local cache makes sense, but being able to point a browser at an online source would enable not only synching between machines, but also opens the possibility that if you serve your attention stream to multiple services you can have a separate blacklist file for each, should that be desirable. Actually, Paul, there’s an easier way…

In Firefox’s about:config page copy the values from “attention.blackListDomains” to “gesturebank.blackListDomains”. Saves you from having to go to your profile folder to find the information. Also, I believe that user prefs from prefs.js only update when you close Firefox, so domains blacklisted in your current session won’t be in that value.

Ideally, you’re right. I would necessarily want to have my only copy of my blacklist file stored on the cloud, so a local cache makes sense, but being able to point a browser at an online source would enable not only synching between machines, but also opens the possibility that if you serve your attention stream to multiple services you can have a separate blacklist file for each, should that be desirable.

]]> By: cori http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/07/19/copying-blacklist-domains-for-the-attention-and-gesture-recorder/comment-page-1/#comment-14689 cori Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:44:11 +0000 http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/07/19/copying-blacklist-domains-for-the-attention-and-gesture-recorder/#comment-14689 Actually, Paul, there's an easier way...<br><br>In Firefox's about:config page copy the values from "attention.blackListDomains" to "gesturebank.blackListDomains". Saves you from having to go to your profile folder to find the information. Also, I believe that user prefs from prefs.js only update when you close Firefox, so domains blacklisted in your current session won't be in that value.<br><br>Ideally, you're right. I would necessarily want to have my only copy of my blacklist file stored on the cloud, so a local cache makes sense, but being able to point a browser at an online source would enable not only synching between machines, but also opens the possibility that if you serve your attention stream to multiple services you can have a separate blacklist file for each, should that be desirable. Actually, Paul, there’s an easier way…

In Firefox’s about:config page copy the values from “attention.blackListDomains” to “gesturebank.blackListDomains”. Saves you from having to go to your profile folder to find the information. Also, I believe that user prefs from prefs.js only update when you close Firefox, so domains blacklisted in your current session won’t be in that value.

Ideally, you’re right. I would necessarily want to have my only copy of my blacklist file stored on the cloud, so a local cache makes sense, but being able to point a browser at an online source would enable not only synching between machines, but also opens the possibility that if you serve your attention stream to multiple services you can have a separate blacklist file for each, should that be desirable.

]]> By: cori http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/07/19/copying-blacklist-domains-for-the-attention-and-gesture-recorder/comment-page-1/#comment-1034 cori Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:44:11 +0000 http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/07/19/copying-blacklist-domains-for-the-attention-and-gesture-recorder/#comment-1034 Actually, Paul, there's an easier way... In Firefox's about:config page copy the values from "attention.blackListDomains" to "gesturebank.blackListDomains". Saves you from having to go to your profile folder to find the information. Also, I believe that user prefs from prefs.js only update when you close Firefox, so domains blacklisted in your current session won't be in that value. Ideally, you're right. I would necessarily want to have my only copy of my blacklist file stored on the cloud, so a local cache makes sense, but being able to point a browser at an online source would enable not only synching between machines, but also opens the possibility that if you serve your attention stream to multiple services you can have a separate blacklist file for each, should that be desirable. Actually, Paul, there’s an easier way…

In Firefox’s about:config page copy the values from “attention.blackListDomains” to “gesturebank.blackListDomains”. Saves you from having to go to your profile folder to find the information. Also, I believe that user prefs from prefs.js only update when you close Firefox, so domains blacklisted in your current session won’t be in that value.

Ideally, you’re right. I would necessarily want to have my only copy of my blacklist file stored on the cloud, so a local cache makes sense, but being able to point a browser at an online source would enable not only synching between machines, but also opens the possibility that if you serve your attention stream to multiple services you can have a separate blacklist file for each, should that be desirable.

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