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diff --git a/software/chromium.page b/software/chromium.page
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+=========
+Chromium
+=========
+
+'chromium' is the fully open source version of Google Chrome. It uses a 
+seperate instance of WebKit in each tab to render HTML quickly while 
+maintaining stability. This approach, compared to the usual shared memory
+approach, uses more memory when many tabs are open, but it has much nicer 
+memory management features: memory is freed when tabs are closed and it's easier
+for the OS to swap out/sleep entire processes. Also crashes are less
+spectacular. The bundled flash player that comes with chromium on linux is
+pretty nice to boot.
+
+As of spring 2010, you can get chromium on debian-based systems by adding the
+ppa:chromium-daily/beta and apt-getting 'chromium-browser' (NOT 'chromium').
+
+Tab-searching
+-----------------
+One feature I haven't really gotten the hang of in chromium (but that I like a
+lot) is the way search works in the location bar: as usual for modern browsers
+any non-standard-url looking string gets sent to google, but if you start a
+domain like wikipedia.org, at some point a message will indicate that you can
+hit Tab to enter a search string for the wikipedia.org domain search engine
+(not 'site:wikipedia.org' on google, it's actually linked to the (horrible)
+wikipedia engine).
+
+vimium
+----------
+The `vimium <https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/dbepggeogbaibhgnhhndojpepiihcmeb>`_ plugin is pretty good; I changed the mappings so that shift-h,l
+scroll the page and regular h,l go forward/backwards in history because I go
+back so often and reaching for backspace is a pain::
+
+    map h goBack
+    map l goForward
+    map H scrollLeft
+    map L scrollRight
+
+Flash Block
+--------------
+I still use `flash block <http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/flashblock/>`_ to disable flash by default; an indicator pops up and I can 
+enable flash for an entire page which is nice for sites that have hidden flash
+(like hulu).
+
diff --git a/software/unix-tricks.page b/software/unix-tricks.page
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@@ -25,3 +25,15 @@ button. To remap one of the Alt keys, you need to know it's code: on FreeBSD
 X11, read the directions in ``/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/README``. To get the right
 mapping under the console, edit ``/usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.iso.kbd`` and
 change 'ralt' to 'meta'.
+
+Figlet
+=====================
+figlet is the horizontal banner.
+
+thttpd
+===============
+
+thttpd is a super small/light http web server with almost no features. To 
+server up the working directory as cgi to local host, use::
+
+    $ thttpd -p 8080 -h localhost -D
diff --git a/software/vim.page b/software/vim.page
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@@ -41,3 +41,12 @@ the command I use to grab three lines of context around 'phrase'::
 
     :r!grep -A 3 'phrase' ../otherfile.txt
 
+Pasting a lot of text with insert mode if very slow because vim redraws the 
+terminal for every single character entered (as you would want if you were 
+actually typing. To paste in the contents of the X11 clipboard you want to use::
+
+    "*P
+
+(aka quote, start, uppercase-P) in regular mode. This also solves the
+autotabbing problem without ":set paste"!
+