Another Firefox Update = Same Old Shit

Monday, November 2, 2009 – 2:52 a.m. – 39.6 F On October 10 I posted an article about the pathetic performance of Firefox since version 3.5 was released early last summer. Two or three days ago my Firefox browser proudly informed me that it had downloaded an upgrade during my previous session. I could tell [...]

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Firefox, You SHOULD be Embarrassed

Saturday, October 10, 2009 – 3:22 p.m. – 41.0 F My browser gets embarrassed all the time now. It didn’t used to. Even when tasked with loading up the most disgusting political views or the raunchiest of images, for all the years since the World Wide Web got started, I never had to worry about [...]

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Fun with Google Earth — Earthquakes

Thursday, October 8, 2009 – 1:36 a.m. – 43.7°F I’ve been playing with Google Earth for quite a while now, pretty much ever since I got my DSL connection a couple years ago, but only recently am I beginning to appreciate how it can display current data. An obvious example is weather data. Cloud cover, [...]

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Another Victim of Vista Service Pack 2

Tuesday, September 29 – 10:33 p.m. – 41.5°F Three days ago I downloaded and installed Service Pack 2 for Vista. I’ve always applied patches and updates to Windows and Internet Explorer (even though I rarely use IE) as they become available. In fact, I use the option to have my computer check for new Operating [...]

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