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It’s an incredible freebie Firefox 1.5 Extension called, Hyperwords™ that makes browsing the Web easier and faster than ever!

All you have to do is select (highlight) any text on a page and a menu automatically appears; click on what you want to do with that text - use it to find more info with search engines, check reference sites [eg., Wikipedia, IMDB, Share Prices, etc.], get its definition from a dictionary or translate into another language; if you’ve selected a product name or type, go shopping for it and/or do a raft of other things.

Hyperwords runs on the Mac, Windows and Linux versions of Firefox, and also works with Flock; one for Microsoft Explorer is anticipated sometime by this coming summer.

I’ve only had it for a short while but am already addicted. Do give it a whirl; it’s simply brilliant!

Merry Groundhog Day, or as Wiccans call it, Imbolc. Phil says “Six More Weeks of Winter.” It seems Phil’s a poet too.

Prophetic rodent aside, I was walking around Princeton Borough before eight in the morning a week ago and gardeners where taking out the winter cabbage and putting in bulbs. I love winter, but not without the anticipation of spring. Zoë picked up a stick of the ground the other day, even it was budding. Has anybody seen signs of spring yet?

Less then two months until Ostara, er Spring Equinox. Stupid Wiccans.