For those who haven't heard

A Tu-154M airliner carrying the heads of the Polish government and military to a commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Katyn Forest Massacre has crashed at Smolensk while attempting to land in heavy fog.  All 96 aboard were killed.  The pilot had been repeatedly advised by Smolensk ground control to divert to Moscow or Minsk, but some [unconfirmed] reports apparently claim he was ordered by someone on the flight to land at Smolensk, as the passengers would be late for the ceremony if he followed tower recommendations to divert.

This crash has just decapitated the Polish government and military command structure.  Poland has declared a week of national mourning, with two minutes of silence at noon on Sunday, and Russia has declared that April 12 will be a national day of mourning.  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had just visited Katyn on Wednesday, along with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, to pay respects to the Polish dead of Katyn, making him the first Russian Prime Minister to do so, as part of an effort to bring about a political reconciliation between Russia and Poland.

PSA: Weave Sync v1.2 bug and workaround

There is a new release of Mozilla's Weave Sync extension out (version 1.2).  It appears to have problems. On one of the three machines on which I have it installed, it now causes Firefox 3.6.3 to go into permanent uninterruptible sleep at 100% CPU utilization as soon as it begins syncing form history.

If this happens to you, use the following procedure to escape from the problem.

1. Kill firefox and restart it.  Stand by with your mouse over the Weave control on the status bar.
2. As soon as Weave connects to the server, bring up the Weave control menu and manually disconnect it.
3. Open the Weave preferences and disable 'Sync Form History'.
4. You can now reconnect and let it sync everything else.

(Update:  Bug filed.)