Confessions of a Haiku Translator

In Confessions of a Haiku Translator, David G. Lanoue writes:

Like the frogs of spring, swallows tend to appear in groups, so is it not logical to assume that the Great Buddha has sneezed forth a flock? On the other hand, if Issa's bird is solitary, the feeling in the haiku is more comic, I believe, like the old adage about a mountain laboring to give birth to a mouse. Lacking contextual clues from Issa's diary, we must admit that there could be one swallow, there could be many. Any single translation, either way it goes, is semantically incomplete.

fireFTP and User Agent Switcher

Introducing fireFTP, a cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. NOTE: This program is still in 'beta' meaning that while it works just fine, it is still in development and there are still features and improvements to be made.

User Agent Switcher Extension on chrispederick.com adds a menu to switch the user agent of the browser. It is designed to provide functionality similar to the "Browser Identification" feature of Opera and allows you to configure the list of user agents to display in the menu.

One of these completely hosed my Firefox install so badly, I had to uninstall and reinstall Firefox just to get it to start up in "safe mode". For now, I've got User Agent Switcher working. But fireFTP remains in the penalty box.