Greasemonkey scripts I love

I use the Firefox web browser and Greasemonkey, an extension that lets you tack on some useful additions.

My favorites:

NewsLinksToGoogleGroups converts news:// URLs so they point to Google Groups. (How many of us still have a standalone USENET News client?)

Password Composer is sheer brilliance. You only have to memorize one password for all the web sites you log into, only you can use a different password for each one. How? This script jumbles your password against the site's domain name in a way that is a bit tricky to unjumble. It's not military-grade password security, but if you insist on remembering just one simple password, you may as well use this to improve your security.

SkypeLinkify turns phone numbers into Skype links so you can phone someone with a simple click, for about 2.5c/min. Too cool. I'm already a Skype user, but if I weren't, this convenience might just convince me to start.

A letter I just sent to Target

My pharmacist's name tag only shows a first name [omitted in LJ]. This is unacceptable.

A pharmacist works for many long years and spends ludicrous amounts of tuition money in order to become a doctor. A pharmacist is an expert medical professional who has earned the title "Doctor" as a mark of respect.

A pharmacist working at a Target pharmacy simply must have a name tag that reads "Dr. ___________". I don't care if the tag says "Dr. Smith" or "Dr. Karen Smith", but a pharmacist is a doctor and deserves to be addressed as such.

Target guests deserve to be able to tell the difference between a pharmacy technician and a pharmacist, too.

I am absolutely horrified by this situation and I hope that you will instruct your store managers to make new name tags for your pharmacists.