not so silent (e)

Upgrade now!!! Here’s what’s new in Firefox 1.5:

• Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
• Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance.
• Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs.
• Improvements to popup blocking.
• Clear Private Data feature provides an easy way to quickly remove personal data through a menu item or keyboard shortcut.
• Answers.com is added to the search engine list.
• Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and “Safe Mode” experience.
• Better accessibility including support for DHTML accessibility and assistive technologies such as the Window-Eyes 5.5 beta screen reader for Microsoft Windows. Screen readers read aloud all available information in applications and documents or show the information on a Braille display, enabling blind and visually impaired users to use equivalent software functionality as their sighted peers.
• Report a broken Web site wizard to report Web sites that are not working in Firefox.
• Better support for Mac OS X (10.2 and greater) including profile migration from Safari and Mac Internet Explorer.
• New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6.
• Many security enhancements.

Did I tell you to upgrade now!!? <grin>

Google Mashups are websites/webapps that use the Google Maps technology to overlay useful information on the maps. Here’re some cool links that I like…

• Catalog of cool mashups
• Where would you end up if you dug a hole straight through the center of the Earth? (I better bring some scuba gear)
• Road Construction / Collision information
• Real Estate listings <sigh>

… well… not a tin roof. This is the local cat that lives at the renovated apartment complex that got turned into office space where I work.

This is a few days old but I didn’t want to post anything xmas-y until AFTER thanksgiving. Check out this house!!! Wish I had this much time… WISH I HAD A HOUSE!!! <sigh>

Read more…

Sweet!!! Searching on Google for “DVD Essentials”, a DVD I’m thinking of wanting I no longer want, brought up the following result…

The MST3K dvds are ESSENTIAL!!!

WOOT!!!

.. make laugh and cringe at the same time

Realized I hadn’t posted a pic of my girl in a while. Here ya go. Found my cheesehead the other day and with a second win, they deserve a little support.