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Author: Thomas

Hail Covers the Ground Like Snow

  • 24 Jun, 2006

It’s kind of hard to see, but this was taken on our camera phone in Cologne Minnesota today. The white areas are hail. Piles of hail. Yards were covered, roofs were covered and this intersection had a foot of hail piled up. We had driven though part of this storm with zero visibility from heavy […]

Geico: Free Pie & Chips

  • 24 Jun, 2006

I have to say, the Geico Free Pie & Chips commercial entertains me. Every time it comes on it puts a smile on my face. If I were looking for auto insurance, I’d check out Geico. 😉 Good job Geico, keep up the good ads!

Blocking Images

  • 24 Jun, 2006

It seems that not a whole lot of people listened to my warning the other day so I’ve started blocking sites. I don’t like to do it, but I need to get my bandwidth and server load under control. Your site is blocked if: If I contacted you and you didn’t respond or update your […]

ZoHo – Online Office Applications

  • 20 Jun, 2006

There has been lots of talk online about Writely, iRows and Google Spreadsheet lately that I though I’d take a moment and talk about the Zoho offerings. ZoHo is a company that makes an online word processor , spreadsheet application, polls, to-do lists, chat and more. Most applications are free and are all very good; […]

yExplore for Flock

  • 19 Jun, 2006

yExplore has been updated to work with Flock. Now if you are on the cutting edge, like I am :), and are running Flock as your primary browser, you can install and run yExplore with no issues. You can get yExplore for Firefox or Flock at Mozilla’s Add-ons site.

Chicklet Creator Important Announcement

  • 16 Jun, 2006

— discontinued — The feed buttons you have on your blog are causing my server to have performance issues. I had asked people to update their buttons a while ago and it hasn’t helped enough. Now an ever increasing image is going to force people to update. Every few days the image will grow larger […]

Google Browser Sync – Firefox to Flock

  • 14 Jun, 2006

Seeing that Flock has now entered public beta, and I think it kind of rocks, I wanted to try and sync Firefox and Flock so I could go back and forth. Well it kind of worked. First I had to edit he Google Browser Sync extension so it would install in Flock. No problems there. […]

Watch Out Firefox – Flock Rocks

  • 12 Jun, 2006

When I discovered the other day that Flock has been updated, and was now a Universal Mac application, I decided to check it out. I thought Flock was cool back in the day, but now it rocks! I love my Firefox, but I’m constantly checking out new browsers to see what they have to offer. […]

Mount Box.net on your Desktop

  • 11 Jun, 2006

Box.net is an online storage site that gives you five free gigs of space to do with what you please. However, Uneasy Silence has figured out how to connect to Box.net via the Mac Finder. Thus allowing you to have a free, mountable 5 Gig online storage account. It’s quite easy, just follow these steps. […]

yExplore Adds Firefox 2 & 3 Support

  • 10 Jun, 2006

yExplore has been updated to version 1.2 adding support for Firefox 2 and Firefox 3. Since it’s a basic extension, and doesn’t tie into much that will change a lot, I thought it was safe to add the additional support. It has been tested by a friend in the latest version of Firefox so now […]