Over the past few months I've been successively spending more and more time working on developing a computer game. Now, it was hardly noticeable at the beginning, but as time has gone on, I've been having more and more trouble remembering things. Sometimes it's in my every day life, like, I forget where I'm going, but more often than not, I'll be working, and I'll switch between two files, and then completely forget why I did or what I'm doing in the new file.

Has anyone had this problem? Or do I just have a case of programmer's-island-fever?

Privacy Badger, a new tool from EFF to combat online tracking and spying, is in alpha release and looking for testers:

EFF is launching a new extension for Firefox and Chrome called Privacy Badger . Privacy Badger automatically detects and blocks spying ads around the Web, and the invisible trackers that feed information to them. You can try it out today.

Interestingly, the announcement of the alpha release of Privacy Badger came the same day that news broke regarding Yahoo's decision to no longer respect users' "Do Not Track" browser settings.

Privacy Badger , which is based on the Adblock Plus code, is available for Chrome and Firefox . The source for each is available on github and any bugs found should be filed against the relevant Chrome or Firefox repositories.

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