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Rick Mercer was on campus today to congratulate Brock University on raising more than $56,000 for Spread the Net, more than all other colleges and universities combined. Stephen Pilar’s, Brock’s VP finances, offered to have his head shaved if Brock University raised more than $30,000 for the Spread the Net campaign.

Before that Brock launched it’s new BoldNewBrock capital campaign and new look for their web sites. Lindsay and I plan on donating at campaign web site boldnewbrock.ca, as Brock has been good to both of us. We’ll have to wait a bit though, they appear to still be ironing out the bugs of the new website as it only responds with every third or so page load (so thanks for your patience).

Finally! Finally someone creates a Firefox plug-in that that takes advantage of the native PDFKit in OSX to display PDF files in Firefox. Everyone tolerates Adobe Reader on IE and Safari, but it doesn’t even work with Firefox on the Mac – leaving Mac Firefox users to chase down PDF files on their desktop every time they come across one to then open it in Preview. This process was only slightly fast than Adobe Acrobat for Safari.

Thanks to “colesbury” over on Google code for finally making what seemed so trivial a reality: Here’s hoping your implementation spurs the Mozilla foundation to integrate this feature in Firefox for the Mac.