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Matthew Gray
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I am a father, board gamer and software engineer.

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I am an avid board gamer. I am one of the (volunteer) admins of BoardGameGeek, maintainer of the GameStoreDB, board game blogger, and gaming software geek.

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I am a staff software engineer at Google. Previously, I was the CTO at an 802.11 location and security company, Newbury Networks in Boston. In June, 1999 I received my Masters degree from the MIT Media Lab. I graduated from MIT (undergraduate) in June, 1997, in physics. Prior to that I was CTO of net.Genesis from 1994 to 1996.

While at MIT, I was one of the three members of the Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) who set up www.mit.edu in the spring of 1993. I am also a former/inactive member of the Apache group, a volunteer group of developers of Apache, the world's most popular web server.

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Monday, January 10, 2005

Greasemonkey: Interstitial Skipper

I wrote another greasemonkey userscript: yahoo groups interstitial ad skipper. Ok, "skipper" is not quite right, but it immediately moves on to the actual message. If you've used the web interface to Yahoo Groups, you've noticed it occasionally inserts an advertisement before you can view the message. Adblock does a fine job of removing the ad itself, but you're left with an essentially blank interstitial page. This userscript automatically "clicks" on the Continue to message link. This is especially useful when opening several messages into tabs in the background.

Posted by Matthew Gray at 11:46 PM
Labels: Javascript, Technology

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