I have been using Firefox full time instead of Internet Explorer these days, this is one reason. With default popup blocking already taken care of by the browser, I just needed to find an ad blocking program. Then I found Adblock. I added in a default adblock script, and my browsing is quite nice now. …
Monthly Archives: June 2004
F9/11
Watched Fahrenheit 9/11 last night at the GasLamp downtown. I love the GasLamp Theatre, but the poor place is usually dead, not many people want to bother with parking downtown. Not last night though, the place was packed, and the theater was packed to see 9/11. The movie? Ultimately, I liked it. But I was …
Neighborhoods
Anna and I caught part of the soap box derby in Sherman Heights while on our way to Chicano Perk. It looked like a lot of fun, and it was great to see the community out. One of the racers brakes failed, so we got to see that, yes, they had thought about safety. On …
So sleepy…
Ah yes, the wonderful life of the IT nerd; 20 hour days when servers fall down. Pigeons fluttering through a hole in the ceiling of a Spanish cathedral led an art restoration team to discover a hidden Renaissance fresco of winged angels that had been covered by a false ceiling for more than 300 years.
Privacy
People have been freaking out about gmail. The storage space, the privacy issues, and more recently, about the usability of the web client. People were offering up gmail invites as prizes or favors. It is all a bit silly. The gmail link has been sitting on my blogger account page for months now. I finally …