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I couldn’t wait to get home to post this: Firefox 1.5 has finally been released. Ars has a write up about today’s release. It has been a long time coming, with three release candidates since November 1st. I held off on installing 1.5 until the first RC, as I was plenty happy with 1.0.7. I’ve just installed 1.5 and I am happy to report that my Google toolbar and other extensions are working just as they were with RC3.
Well, it’s time for me to finally have lunch. It’s almost 3pm already!
Wow! I just ran across this post at digg. A guy named Shane Wright made a video application for a job posting at Google. I just finished watching the video, and I am stunned that this guy thought this idea would work.
With lines like, "Introducing the greatest thing to hit the marketing scene since the four ‘P’s," after which he turns around in his chair with a stupid smirk on his face, I wonder what was going through this guy’s head when he came up with this. As an example of what he can bring to Google, he retells his idea of Google Homework. To use the service, you would upload your homework to Google. While you "work on it," Google will go find answers to your homework problems to which you can compare your answers. wtf? As if some people need yet another method to cheat on their schoolwork.
One of the other things I found hilarious (*Jessi hits Grant*) was how he plays all these characters that talk himself up so much (sounds to me like fraud to me). It also appears as though he’s using resources at his current workplace to put together the video (i.e. he uses the conference room, his cubicle/office, and even another employee?). I know that if I were in charge of hiring people, I’d love to see how potential hires abuse resources at their former employers. And here is the best thing: he even has his phone number at the end of the video for all the world to dial. I sure hope he’s cancelled that number by now 
Drew Olbrich has one of his pages on digg. The page in the digg post shows an accurate picture of the distance between the Earth and the moon. Drew writes:
Usually when you see wacky space pictures, the Moon is unrealistically close to the Earth. What’s up with that?
I wanted to get a better sense of exactly how the Earth and Moon would appear from an observer in space.
The picture that Drew made is impressive. In a single image you can get a feel for the vast distance between us and the moon, as well as how small the moon really is compared to Earth.
Pat Morita died yesterday in his Las Vegas home. I loved him as Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid, the first martial arts movie that I loved. I don’t know many of his roles other than Mr. Miyagi and Arnold from Happy Days, but the performances of his that I have seen were great.
Well, I tried writing this much earlier this morning, and then my computer crashed. Three times. I’ll try it again and hope that I can post it before this other computer I am using crashes.
I awoke this morning to Eric & Kathy, as I do most mornings, hearing Melissa talk about how backed up traffic was around Chicago. All I could think was that it wasn’t even 6:30 yet! The first snowfall of the season was to blame, besides it being too early in the morning even for the morning people. Precipitation around Chicago is not abnormal by any means. The weather does go through its ups and downs around here, but a little snow is nothing to balk at.
But people do balk at it. Every year it seems to happen like this for many Chicagoans:
Mind you, at this point it’s only snowed about an inch, maybe less. Yet people still decide that it’s some major surprise that it snowed, causing them to drive at no faster than 15mph when they would normally drive 55-60mph (we are the crazy drivers of Chicago, after all). When I worked in Palatine, that meant that my morning commute that was usually 20-25 minutes all of a sudden became an hour long ordeal, even without my stopping by Starbucks to pick up a grande caramel macchiato or white chocolate mocha. Seriously, I don’t understand why Chicagoans can be so — what’s the word? Lame? Annoying? Yeah — annoying this time of year. I have only been driving for about a decade, but I’ve figured out how to handle a car in the snow. Why can’t they?Anyways, that’s my snow rant for today.
The other thing that the first snowfall has brought to mind is that I don’t know where my gloves or snow brush are. If I can find one of them before I leave for work, great, but finding both would be awesome. (Since I’m now writing this after leaving for work, I can tell you that I only found my snow brush. It was in the garage. The gloves are still nowhere to be found.) The snow doesn’t look too bad when I look outside. It’s not enough for our snow plow service to come to our house, so it can’t be that bad. At least it will be warmer outside than yesterday.
Well, time to get ready for work. (I got to work a little later than anticipated this morning because of the computer crashing. If I remember to, I’ll post about how that dark cloud of technology loomed over my head this morning.)
I just wanted to say congratulations to Herschell, who has officially made it big time! His name is plastered right there on an article that’s getting front page billing on Ars, an online tech site which is a daily read for millions of other geeks out there. Ever since before I started reading Ars and slashdot I have wondered who those people were that wrote about the industry I love so much, and now I know that they’re people like Hersch, Jacqui and Clint.
Among other things, he writes for Opposable Thumbs and Monster Eats The Pilot, spins on Dogglounge and designs shirts for Test Tube T-Shirts. All of this is on top of publishing his own blog. I don’t know that I have said this to him, but I’m happy for him and all of the things he does. I would say that I am proud of him, except that I don’t know that I can take any credit for him getting to where he is. He did it all. I’m just glad I can still be on the sidelines watching 
This is props to you, bro!
I didn’t think it was possible, but it has happened. I have been sucked into yet more TV with a little help from Jessi. Jessi brought over the first season of Gilmore Girls, and I started half-watching it while I was working on a computer for a client. I have to admit that the bits that I saw were funny.
Chris watched the first episode while I worked on that computer, but she wasn’t able to finish the second episode because we had to go out to a nice birthday dinner at Webber Grill for my cousins’, my uncle’s and my mom’s birthdays. On a different night, Rich and I decided to watch the first episode since neither of us had seen it yet. It was good. Like Rich says, "It is a well written show." I cannot disagree with him on that.
I have since seen five or six episodes since I started watching it a couple of weeks ago. It has taken some time away from my catching up on Alias, Veronica Mars and Lost. I have even almost stopped watching Law & Order and CSI (the many flavors of both series), but not quite entirely stopped. Once the holiday feast at our house on Thursday is over, you better believe I am hunkering down in front of the tele and watching me a lot of TV on DVD. It’s just a matter of whether or not I wait for anyone else to watch it with me.
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