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For the first time in a few months, TiVo recorded for me an episode of "Star Trek: Voyager".

And it was the one where Warp 10 makes them turn into lizards. DUH.

TiVo's database has a lot of metadata. And, certainly, it misses a lot. For example, a lot of shows are missing episode descriptions. This is especially troublesome with local shows: is Pat McMahon interviewing the governor, or the guy who trains police dogs?

But, another thing they might want to consider is a per-episode rating system.

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I went on a Firefox extension-installing bender just now. The last one I installed was called "imagezoomer", and was supposed to add "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" entries to the right-click menu.

Instead, it created this big extra windowpane that takes up 1/6 of the screen and says, in big red letters, <!DOCTYPE overlay SYSTEM "chrome://imagezoomer/locale/imageZoomerOverlay. and then it stops.

I couldn't uninstall it because it doesn't appear in my Extensions window, and even creating a new profile didn't work. I ended up opening up the .jar file myself and removing anything I could from the imageZoomer.XUL file, whatever the hell that is.

Internet Explorer never made me jump through that many hoops, that I can recall.

It seems like a horrendous design decision. Why should the user see a vague error that he can't ignore, because some extension writer screwed up?