mikemo

I use Gmail, and although I love it in general, one thing that is a little tedious is that when you want to send someone an attachment, you can’t drag and drop the attachment onto your message like you can with most native email clients — instead you have to click “Attach a file,” then click “Browse,” and then browse to the file that you want to attach.

But dragdropupload is a slick little Firefox extension that addresses this problem. Once you install it, you can drag and drop any file from your computer on top of the words “Attach a file” in Gmail. Sweet! (You can also drag and drop onto any other website that does file upload, but Gmail is where I find it most useful.)

Today I typed “wikipedia” into Google. Look at the weird subcategories that showed up under the main wikipedia.org link:

What the?!?

So of course I clicked ‘em all. “Wikipedia:Hauptseite” and “Accueil” take you to the home pages of the German and French versions of Wikipedia, respectively. “Tirol” takes you to the German-language page describing Tirol, which is apparently “a historical region of Western Central Europe” (according to the corresponding English-language page). The last three links take you to the English-language pages for the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Denzel Washington, and commodity markets.

This is hilarious. Lacra, one of the Flex engineers on our team in Romania, filed this bug, which points out a place in Flex Builder where there is a list of country codes that includes “Romania, Socialist Republic of (RO).” As she writes, “The list of countries in the dialog that opens mentions Romania as a socialist republic! It hasn’t been one in 18 years :) It is a (democratic) republic.”