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Review my latest Firefox Extensions

If you’ve tried out GA? or Google Personalized Search Switch, please take a moment to either add a comment over at the extension’s page on the Mozilla Addon site (they are in the sandbox) or on the individual blog posts. The reviews will help me get them onto the public Addon site faster and out […]

I love & hate CSS.

I love CSS, but yet I hate it to. For some reason, the same code can’t work in all browsers. And I’m not just complaining about the non-standards compliant Internet Explorer (all versions) but I’m finding minor differences in different versions of Firefox. How is that possible?!! Getting everything to line up just seems to […]

GotMail – Email Growl Notification Style

I decided the other day that I wanted a new, cool Growl notification style for when I receive new email in Thunderbird. Instead of creating a Thunderbird specific one, I decided to create a generic one for email. GotMail is the Growl notification style that I came up with. It’s simple in nature, but does […]

Back from SES in San Jose

I’m working on catching up on all my emails and feed reading since my SES San Jose trip. It was a lot of fun and educational too. 🙂 Here are some visuals: Refreshments Networking Partying at the Google Dance at Google’s Offices Inside the Googleplex looking for ranking insider tips or Matt Cutts. Stalking Matt […]

MacBook Battery Saving Tips?

As I sit here at SES in San Jose with my MacBook Pro, battery power is one thing I’m keeping an eye on. I did some research before coming on how to save batter power, but I’m looking for more tips. Here’s what I have so far: Turn down the screen brightness as far as […]

Off to SES San Jose

I’m off to SES San Jose for the week. If I don’t make any posts, you’ll know why. If you happen to be out at the search engine strategies conference, keep an eye out for me and say HI! You’ll be able to notice me with my shinny new MacBook Pro! 😀

extero is Coming

I’ve been working on a new Firefox theme called extero and it should be ready for release in a week or two. extero uses great icons designed by Jonasrask Design which they gave out for free. Seeing as I couldn’t turn up the icons, I built them into a Firefox theme. I’m trying to make […]

Valleyfair Looses Power

A lightning strike over the weekend may have caused a slow burn in underground power lines. This then took out the power to a large chunk, half, of Valleyfair last night. Riders stuck on rollercoasters had to walk down the lift hill and other riders were helped out of rides also. No injuries were reported […]

Is Google Analytics Installed? – GA? Firefox Extension

  To get the best results out of Google Analytics, you need to ensure it’s installed on each page of a website. To automatically check for you, I’ve created a Firefox extension to do all the work. GA? will put a little icon in the status bar of your Firefox web browser. It will then […]

Taking Pictures of Lightning

When severe storms rolled into my hometown of Chatfield the other night, they can with a great lightning show. So, I decided to try and catch some action on my camera. Now, I’ve tried this before and it’s not an easy task unless your camera is setup to automatically take a picture every few seconds. […]