Fish On!
Filed in Travel, July 22, 2005, 10:11 amEarly tomorrow morning I am going to Alaska. This time I am going on vacation. All of my other trips to Alaska were for commercial fishing. This will be a nice change. I am going fishing with Name_Removed’s dad, brother, and other family and friends. This will be a guy’s trip.
We leave early Saturday morning [...]
Mozilla Firefox Security Questioned
Filed in Web/Tech, July 19, 2005, 11:04 amThe latest security issue with Firefox is not the actual browser, but with an extension that a user could install. With that said, why all the bad press? The issue isn’t with Mozilla, but it is with the programmer that made the extension. The programmer has already released an updated version of the extension that [...]
A New Job?
Filed in Noteworthy, Work, July 18, 2005, 3:36 pmSo last Friday, while working from home, my boss contacts me and we start off by having small talk. She then mentions that she would like to transition me into a new position. This new position would be somewhat of a functional analyst/manager position. One of my primary responsibilities would be gather end-user business requirements [...]
Another iPod Coming?
Filed in Web/Tech, , 3:30 pmJust when you think that the announcements from Apple would slow down for a few months, here comes another one. Rumor has it that Apple is going to announce an iPod with video support. They will also state that users can puchase music videos from the iTunes music store.
Apple definitely knows how to keep the [...]
Hurricane Emily
Filed in Current Affairs, July 16, 2005, 7:55 pmCurrent forecasts predict Hurricane Emily to hit somewhere in Mexico or near the Yucatan. This sucks for me because Belize is very close to this very region. The storm isn’t forecasted to directly hit Belize, but it is going close to enough that the country will get it by the edge of the storm, not [...]
Top Dog: Why Americans love Labrador retrievers.
Filed in Current Affairs, July 14, 2005, 10:57 amFull Story
Not too long ago, Labrador retrievers
were considered a tad exotic. In the 1950s, the sporty mid-size breed
was a suburban rarity, popular mainly among upper-crust Anglophiles who
liked the idea of owning a dignified hunting dog. Today, however, Labs
are the Levi’s jeans of purebred dogs. They’ve topped the American
Kennel Club’s list of registered canines for 12 [...]
