How many of you read this?

I'm curious to know how many of you are reading this blog. My suspicion is that maybe one other person reads this. Please feel free to comment if you ARE. It would really helpful for me in assessing the types and regularity of posts that appear here. Thanks in Advance.

Is there anything about this article that bothers you?

This article kind of bothers me. I just don't think we need to get this crazy about technology for churches. It just seems like its taking things a little "over the top".

Another Firefox Experience/Experiment

As usual, I'm "testing" out Firefox again. The reason being is that the extensions just keep getting better. It seems that many more websites are becoming more compliant as well. I will be attempting to use it as my standard browser over the next month and I'll give an update then.

For now, I can report that I've run into some issues that I had thought were initially belonging to Firefox, but actually could be attributed to some of the extensions that I had installed. This extension made websited load funny or not at all, and basically took away the cursor when I clicked in any textbox on a form. Very weird. It seems as though the crappy memory hogging issues are still there. From what I've read so far, the 1.5 series of releases has caused a lot of dissappointments among Firefox enthusiasts in relation to the memory issues and stability overall. The good news for them is that a newer version is already in Alpha, so perhaps it will redeem these issues a bit.

On a final note about this. I've decided to do my experiment using "Portable Firefox 1.5.0.2" rather than the regular one. This way, its easier to restore it if an extension messes things up.

Fun with Gas?

Here's an interesting interactive Map at current gas price averages in the united states...makes me wish I lived in Montana right about now:

http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx

Somewhere I'd never want to be

Here's a place I'd never want to be:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2179463398999135184&q=tornado

Entry for 4-5-06

Here's a good idea, being implemented terribly.

Movies to be available for downloading and owning

Begin Rants and Info:

-From what I've been told, its April. But it seems that somebody didn't get the memo, because I had to drive to work in violent snow squalls this morning. I've thought of a new name for Pennsylvania that will suit us better: Canada.

- I bought a 19" LCD viewsonic Monitor for my computer. All I can say is "WOW!". After using a refurbished 17" CRT monitor with scratches on the screen that I found on eBay for about 4 years now, this is a nice upgrade.

- Never underestimate the benefits and luxuries of spending a little money on a comfortable computer mouse.

-If you keep a baby in the bathtub long enough, they WILL poop.

-Don't you hate when you have a pile of money and...nevermind, that never happens to me.

End Rants and Info:

Notes:

All 1.75 of you who actually read my blog might wonder why I really only post tech news articles on here. The reason, in my opinion, is because tech news usually doesn't depress me and make me feel paranoid about plane trips and government corruption. I like to keep my life happy, so introducing it to too much politics or stories of exploitation and crime in our world just brings a brother down. To that end i try to stay on top of things where I'm more qualified to make an opinion.

4-6-06 Edit

Uhh...Because this is EXACTLY what I want to do with excess toilet water:

http://www.realgoods.com/shop/shop2.cfm?dp=205&ts=6020334

Here is a good FAQ I found on running windows on a Mac...the trendiest thing going these days for geeks:
http://news.com.com/FAQ+Windows+on+Macs/2100-1016_3-6058163.html?tag=st.prev

What I find interesting is how much emphasis people put on "support" for windows xp...give me a break. This operating system has been around forever. If you need "support" for windows xp, then you either have not operated a computer in the past 5 years, or you have no idea what you are doing. Not once in my entire life did I ever consider, or know anyone else who has considered calling "windows technical support". There are so many forums, FAQ's and all-around windows "experts" freely available that it doesn't make sense to need support for such a tried and true OS. Just weird, in my opinion.