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It's some weeks now that I'm slowly reconstructing my old customized environment on the new PC, reinstalling and configuring latest versions of all the software I were used to.
Sadly some old firefox extensions are no longer supported by authors and didn't get updated for the latest 3.x versions. So I lost a useful extension which allowed me to automatically resetting the white-background, so widely used in webpages, into a nicer grey background.

I really don't know why, but people don't understend that the white background in a sheet of paper does reflect light, while white background in a web page do MAKES light and then it also has a different luminosity. And that as time goes by keep reading black on white is a big effort for the eyes, and with a book this doesn't happens.

After the Nth white page and after so much swearing against all the silly webmaster of the world, I decided to search for something to replace the missing Firefox extension...

I searched in the web for something like a bookmarklet and I ended up finding one which applied a grey color to the BODY tag of the page. It seemed to be good, but it was useless with frames and pages with text in sub-boxes with a background set to white which overlaps the grey background of the BODY tag.. Then I've been forced to search for something else.

Finally I found a bookmarklet which applied a black background to ANYTHING and changed ALL the text to white. Perfect. It was just a question of changing the colors according to my requirements and it was ready. There where only a thing which was still wrong: it changed also link colors and so they were no longer recognizable between normal text!

Sadly I never get used to javascript. It's a programming language that I know at a level between almostNothing and nothing. It creates me troubles with its lack of discrimination between objects, properties (and other stuff). They all go in a sequence devided only by a dot, but I always forgot which one is of the 1st kind and which one is of the second kind. And it's also case-sensitive: commands needs to be written with correct case or it all fails.

One day I'll probably learn it, but at the present time it's too complex for my taste.
Anyway, I worked on it for around an hour and I finally managed to fix it. : )

Now I placed it on the firefox toolbar as button and anytime I open a white page, I just need to click the button and.. TAK! The webpage background change into a relaxing silver, and the links are still clearly visible! : D

My sight says thanks. :P

If you want to use it too, here is the codeline:

javascript:(function(){var%20b=document.getElementsByTagName('*');for(var%20i=0;i<b.length;i++){b[i].style.backgroundImage='none';b[i].style.backgroundColor='#d8d8db';if(b[i].tagName!='A'){b[i].style.color='#000000'}}})()

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(2.32 thursday 28th, may 2009)
note: I fixed the codeline adding "()" at its end. Someone told me it may fails in some browsers otherwise.

y.

Yes. It's a lot since my last post.

Sadly after the last post I passed through a crisis phase. Some problems of my life came back to me, problems that I tought contained, while they was only hidden instead, like dirt under the mat, and then I started feeling very bad..
At the present time I'm trying to find out a fix, but it's all but an easy job..

Anyway, recently something sad happened and this forced me to come back to write about it, even if late, and I'm sorry for this

On past July I wrote how much surprised and disappointed I felt in finding out that the main online InformationTechnology newsmagazine of Italy hosts a forum made on purpose for some trolls.
I also wrote how some of them occasionally (between only God knows how many others objectionables activities) have fun joking on discussions made somewhere else, about some diseases and related life experiences.

The most silly comment that I find came from an anonimous user who were wondering why such persons don't commit suicide.

It's said that questions aren't stupid, but answers are, sometimes.
But there is a condition which made the 2 things overlap and then the question become stupid: it's when the question doesn't need a reply because it already has one, hidden inside.
It's called rhetorical question.
The person who wrote that post weren't asking for something, he were only giving his objectionable point of view that "it should be so".

But it "already is so".

Many days ago a person that I met once, who were suffering for some of these psicologic diseases, decided to put an end to his life letting a train run over himself.

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These two things aren't linked in any way. Not that I know of, at least. I don't know if this person were worried for people joking about him and anything he did write online about himself and his own business. Probably not. And no one will ever know what in his mind really leaded him to such end.

But it's unavoidable that in the mess of thoughs that such news forces inside my head, there's also the bitter taste which comes from knowing of so many resources and popularity wasted for people so much stupid to not even be able to understand being so, while there's an army of common persons spread everywhere who constantly fight every moment against a mind which keeps following its own weird way, living a shitty life, dying any day a bit more, sometime even dying for real.

Ciao Emilio.

y.