Firefox is neato!
I just started looking into the extensions available for Firefox and already, Sessionsaver is a godsend! My computer woes have me rebooting all of the time lately and it always seems to be when I have a lot of browser tabs open that I don’t necessarily want to lose. Now I re-open Firefox and, Bam! – everything’s right where I left off before chaos broke loose! Brilliant…
Here’s a great link for some other useful add-ins:
http://pchere.blogspot.com/2005/12/50-best-firefox-extensions-for-power.html
I hate pushy telemarketers…
If I tell you I’m not interested, I’m really just trying to be polite when I should’ve hung up on you in the first place – don’t tell me that I need to “Stop and think about the offer before making a hasty decision…” I know that I’m going to forget to call and cancel your “special program” and end up getting charged $69.95 for something that I didn’t really want in the first place, so accept the courtesy when I actually answer the phone and take No for an answer…
Apologies to those who “never seem to catch me at home,” but this is why I don’t answer my phone if your name doesn’t pop up in the caller ID. 🙁
Ten predictions for the new year…
Found this on Blake Ross’s blog – a rather entertaining, and probably accurate, depiction of what we’ve got to look forward to in technology next year. For those who don’t know the name, Blake is one of the guys responsible for creating Firefox…
http://blakeross.com/2005/12/26/my-predictions-for-the-new-year/
greenlight
Sometimes it feels like both a blessing and a curse when I come across a new television series past its prime that I haven’t seen yet. It’s not uncommon for me to sit down after finding the DVDs or downloading a new series and literally spend the entire weekend watching my new treasure – it happened with Sports Night, it happened with Dawson’s Creek (whew – that was a long one!), and most recently it has happened with Project Greenlight.
The DVDs have been sitting on my entertainment center for a few weeks now, but as soon as I put them in, I knew that the rest of my free time until they were finished was pretty much forfeit. I first got addicted to the series earlier this spring with season 3 (featuring Feast – the horror movie), so now I’m actually traveling back in time to season two (The Battle of Shaker Heights). There’s currently about two episodes left in the season to go, plus the movie itself, and the more I watch this show, the more I get pissed that it’s not going to be on the air anymore! I’ve always been interested to at least some extent with movie making, to a point where sometimes I wondered if it would be worth pursuing as a career, so for me this really is one of my favorite shows. Plus, I’ve always been a big fan of the Affleck / Damon combo, so its fun to see them interact with the rest of the people trying to make these movies.
There are some shows that I know I’ve bought and probably only watched once since, but I really think that this set is going to get a decent amount of playback out of me – possibly even enough to justify going out and buying season one before too long. Hehehe – maybe I do have plans for New Years now after all… 😉
awesome domain name
The article may or may not be of interest, but is this not one of the coolest domain names you’ve ever heard?!
http://www.whalesalad.com/archives/conquering-bittorrent/
Takes me back to the days of the Manatee Hunter… 😉
Even Santa gets a little geeky sometimes!
This is kind of cute – track Santa’s trip around the world with Google Earth…
a night at the movies…
So tonight I finally got around to doing the whole Harry Potter / IMAX thing and all in all, it was a pretty good movie. I might write something up on it later, but I was just impressed by the views – very reminiscent of the Lord of the Rings…except I don’t believe that those were ever issued in IMAX (…although the third one might’ve been…).
Anyways, good show, coupled by a couple of quite brisk walks back to the parking garage, dodging Lightning fans along the way (apparently we lost)! Channelside even had its little Friday night celebration going on (pictured below) which is always kind of neat … and I’m even told that it snows at some point during the evening! It was far too cold for me to stick around any longer for that – maybe another night.
A Channelside Christmas…
Tomorrow – last-minute Christmas shopping, hopefully buying my elliptical, and the remainder of the housework that I’ve been putting off for far too long… :O
To end on a humorous holiday note…
Here’s a little classic holiday humor for you, geek and all!