did you get one of the google pins that lights up with different colors? that was my favorite piece of swag from them.

For those of you interested, which is probably nobody, I would like to point out that "shwag" and "swag" are not the same thing.

"Shwag" is free promotional crap given out by companies.

"Swag" is an Aussie term for a rolled bundle of belongings, carried by a foot traveler. It can also refer to "loot", such as that plundered by pirates.

The only exception to this is if you happen to be at a trade show for a pirate startup company, and you steal some of their promotional items. In that case, either word is acceptable.

well garriet you'ld be surprised to know that this is relevant at our office. We have been talking about schwag and calling it pirate booty. Thanks to your clarification, I informed my coworkers and set the record straight, though there are still some rebels who say schwag is the pirate booty of conferences.

swag and shwag are the same thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swag_%28disambiguation%29 , except that shwag has one additional meaning of low grade marijuana. i chose the spelling i did as an attempt at a joke (sometimes i feel like a pirate looting companies, especially at job fairs where they have things like pens that light up in multiple colors...hmm maybe i just like things with flashing colors)...but i guess that attempt failed.

hmm, i wonder if my extension-thing (made from a greasemonkey script) still works. this is a good illustration of how people release open source software because they wanted something cool and so they made it but then they lose interest or get too busy to keep updating it. i wonder how many developers feel guilty about not keeping up with their software. i guess it is better to have had good software and have lost it than to never have had it at all. :p

I am really really sad that I can not use Firefox at work.  Our filters will not work on it...and I want to keep my job here.  I love the add-ons.  Particularly the weather one.  I always like peaking at the weather back home and seeing how much warmer it is out here. :)

I hate that our Drupal blog do tagging different than other sites, but you got to add commas between you tags or it ends up being one big ol tag. I fixed it for ya but for next time!

-Danielle

PS Thanks for sharing these great links! If your using Delicious, remember to tag your links with "ctcvista".

Scrapbook:

"ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are:

* Save Web page
* Save snippet of Web page
* Save Web site
* Organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks
* Full text search and quick filtering search of the collection
* Editing of the collected Web page
* Text/HTML edit feature resembling Opera's Notes

Works with:

* Firefox Firefox: 1.5 – 2.0.0.*"

Scrapbook

I find I use it quite a bit to save how to, link and
tutorial pages. Especially useful when, so often, pages are
here today, gone tomorrow.

Towards that end, I would also direct you to the Wayback Machine (Internet Archive):

"Browse through 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available. The resulting pages point to other archived pages at as close a date as possible. Keyword searching is not currently supported."

Wayback Machine