I'm usually not quick on the uptake with technology news and the like, but since I have been so happy with Firefox I thought I would throw a plug in for the release of Firefox 2.0, scheduled for October 24. It has been available for a day or so via their FTP servers with a nominal amount of very logical digging around. I downloaded it earlier today and have been playing with it. It works fine. A couple of your old add-ons might not work, but that's OK.
There are a few add-ons I am an especially big fan of. I thought I would give them a little press. Unfortunately I don't really have the energy to write a bunch about them. Just search for them or whatever and see how they work out for you. I look at them all as being pretty much essential for me, personally, nowadays.
FireFTP: FTP client for Firefox. Awesome. IETab: Use the embedded IE engine within Firefox tabs. Useful for testing. Also useful for being logged into the same site under two different usernames. FoxyTunes: Control virtually any media player from your stauts bar. I use this sometimes, could live without it, but its a nice addition. Gmail Manager: keep tabs on several Gmail accounts at once, again from your status bar. Pretty nice if you have multiple accounts. I have too many already. I really like this. VideoDownloader: I just added this sucker on today, and its not working for me...but supposedly it will let you save videos off of a number of different video sites (a la youtube, google, ifilm, etc).
# posted by Bil Klinton @
10/23/2006 11:00:00 PM ::
# posted by Howie Hardcore @
10/18/2006 01:10:00 PM ::
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Line sled thing
I was entertained for a good long while:
http://joplan.com/digg/linerider_hacked.html
# posted by Howie Hardcore @
10/15/2006 09:13:00 PM ::
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Derth of good political ads
In my opinion Paul Wellstone had the best political ads. This one from his '96 campaign is like the one he did when he first ran. He is speaking quickly because in the first one in 1990 he could only afford a 15 second spot. Why can't they all be this good?
# posted by Howie Hardcore @
10/10/2006 04:06:00 PM ::
Monday, October 09, 2006
It is Time for Stormy Weather
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Investors in U.S. stocks are acting as if the bull market that's now four years old will keep going. Third-quarter earnings reports may cause them to reconsider.
``The market is vulnerable to a pretty swift decline,'' said Tim Hayes, chief investment strategist at Ned Davis Research. ``Earnings are the big risk here with the economy slowing down.''
# posted by Howie Hardcore @
10/09/2006 10:26:00 AM ::
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Doom and Gloom
Dow: The high was hit and I'm predicting that it's all downhill from here, maybe down sharply (like 1,000+ points). How long will that take? probably not long. Why will this happen? I have no idea... bomb? pandemic? hedge fund implosion? housing crash? Iran war? I dunno...
Bullet Vibe: We had our one and only gig (it's really hard to get gigs in San Francisco). In fact, it wasn't a gig it was an open mic, but an open mic at a really nice stage with amps and a drum set. We played marvellously but I couldn't help but feel pangs idiocy as an old dude playing rock. Why is rock the domain of the young? Or is it just that guys like rock and only girls will go see young guys (unless they've already got a bazillion hits under their belt) so therefore the chances of an old dude breaking large into the music scene are slim at best. Regardless, our bass player is moving back to Chicago and it looks like I've been placed on travel to Connecticut for the rest of the year. If you haven't had the chance to listen to us yet, won't you please? Go to http://myspace.com/bulletvibe and sign up to be our friend and leave us a raunchy note.
Bird Flu: Thought I had forgotten about it, yes? No! it continues it's slow burn in Indonesia. It's transmissible human to human, larger and larger clusters are happening and it is learning how to spread easily and infect the upper respiratory system of humans. Also the virus has been found in numerous places in the U.S. in migratory birds, although the media is stressing that it's the "low pathagenic version" -- regardless, it's amazing that it has spread to the U.S. and probably just a matter of time before we start seeing migratory bird deaths caused by H5N1 (in fact a duck in California may have died from it). We're definatly in a stage 4 pandemic (according to the WHO) and we're probably entering stage 5 as we speak.
# posted by Howie Hardcore @
10/05/2006 11:05:00 AM ::
