Happy Halloween Everyone! Check out our awesome pumpkin carving jobs too.

Think you can carve a better pumpkin? Try it with this cool pumpkin carving flash game I was sent.

My wife and I went down to the Hopkins cheap theater last night to see SpiderMan 2. The Hopkins theater is nice because it’s only $2 each and only $1 on Tuesdays. The movies are all big named movies that have been out of theaters for a while but not quite on video. I have to say that I was excited to see this movie, we both were. All in all it was a good movie but it seemed long. The villain was much better this time around and the special effects were amazing once again! And, of course, they left it wide open for SpiderMan 3. Who do you think the villain will be? The friend? Almost husband? Girl who lived next to Spiderman? All good ideas but my money is on the almost husband.

I was watching Good Morning America this morning and they say that they found human remains on an Indonesian island that are half the size of humans. Approximately three feet tall and they are referring to them as hobbits.

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists in Australia have found a new species of hobbit-sized humans who lived about 18,000 years ago on an Indonesian island in a discovery that adds another piece to the complex puzzle of human evolution.

The partial skeleton of Homo floresiensis, found in a cave on the island of Flores, is of an adult female that was a meter (3 feet) tall, had a chimpanzee-sized brain and was substantially different from modern humans.

Check out my new self-hypnosis site. You can get CDs or MP3s that can help you hypnotize yourself and reach your goals. Get information on sleep hypnosis, weight loss hypnosis, progressive muscle relaxation hypnosis, high blood pressure hypnosis and other hypnotism techniques. Shop for CDs and download MP3s that can help you learn self-hypnosis and maybe even relax a little. These may also be good Christmas ideas.

Apple unleashed the new iPods today. The U2 iPod is black and red with the bands autographs on them. Comes preloaded with U2 music as the rumors stated. Also new is the Photo iPod. In 40 and 60 gig sizes the vivid 2 inch color screen lets you view photos synced from iTunes 4.7 (new) on them. Slideshow abilities, with music, are available and you can even hook it up to the TV for showing off. Don’t forget the Belkin Media Reader either, it allows you to store photos from your digital camera on your iPod. NICE!!!

Unsanity’s Shapeshifter 2.0 is available for download. Now you can change themes, icons, cursors and desktops. Included is a theme browsing window that lets you view newer themes and download them. Themes also load faster which is always good. And, of course, it’s safe!

Today we should have some big Apple related announcements. One, Shapeshifter 2.0 should be available for download soon. The free upgrade should come with a few sweet new themes also. Two, the Apple iPod update? Could it be flash based? Video iPod? U2 iPod? We should find out today. Three, iTuens Canada? And other countries? Those are rumors that should come to light or disappear later today. Check back for the latest news!

I have redesigned my blog. Fresh with new graphics, new stylesheet, new template and now the ‘email article’ icons are working! It took me a few weeks to get the design I wanted translated into blogger and working well on different platforms. Even though I’ve tested it, I won’t be surprised to hear about issues with different systems, different browsers, or old post issues. Do you have issues? Comments? Or just want to tell me that it looks nice? Well please do. Just post a comment and I’ll take everything into consideration. I hope you like the new look and feel!!

In my constant quest to customize Firefox I came across Safari like tabs and Sage. Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox. Sage sits in Firefox’s sidebar and when you click on a topic, it displays in the main window in an easy to view, simple webpage. [screenshot] So far I have to say it’s pretty cool. I just need to find an easy way to add the feeds to sage. *edit* Found it. Maybe I need to read the instructions. Oh and if you are looking for Safari like tabs for Firefox, look here.

Since I’ve had success with Firefox I decided that maybe I need to check out Thunderbird. I had looked at it before, but never seriously used it until today. I decided to switch from Apple’s Mail.app and check out Mozilla Thunderbird. It’s a hard switch because it’s not the easiest moving from one client to another. Not like web browsing. But I did. So far so good. There is a learning curve, as with anything, but it’s fun at the same time too. I got a few extensions and my mail all imported and working great. I do miss the ’spell as you type’ feature from Mail but at least there is a spell check when I send. I’m also not as happy with how the signature attaches its self to the very bottom of a message but I’m looking for that fix. However I am very excited for better HTML support and labels! Along with the many extensions that I can install. I’ll stick with it until the end of October, that’s my first goal, and then see what happens from there. If all goes good, it will probably be my work email client until the new Mac OS X comes out.