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Valleyfair Looses Power

  • 14 Aug, 2007

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

  • 14 Aug, 2007

  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

  • 13 Aug, 2007

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. […]

Google Personalized Search Switch for Firefox

  • 8 Aug, 2007

Have you ever wanted to turn Google Personalized Search on or off without logging out of your Google account? Well now you can with the Google Personalized Search Switch for Firefox. Google Personalized Search Switch is a Firefox extension that adds the ability to turn on and off Google’s personalized search results by just clicking […]

What happened to SpyMac?

  • 5 Aug, 2007

I can remember a few years ago when SpyMac was all the rage. It was a very up-and-coming Mac community that tried to do everything and with style. Now it seems like a social media crash site. I guess classic SpyMac is a better representation of what it use to be. It was a huge […]

What’s wrong with this picture?

  • 3 Aug, 2007

This is our backyard, can you tell what’s wrong with this picture? // Image lost. Sorry. Zooomr ate it. // What if I said I live in Minnesota? What if I said we are in the mist of a severe drought? For some reason, there are parts of our lawn that are bright green and […]

Unimaginable – 35W Bridge Collapses

  • 1 Aug, 2007

Tonight, just after 6pm, the interstate 35W bridge collapsed into the Mississippi river in Minneapolis. Please keep those affected in your thoughts and prayers. I once lived just a few miles from that bridge and drove it quite often. It’s hard to believe that it’s now gone.

Renegade Rollercoaster Rocks

  • 30 Jul, 2007

We visited Valleyfair for the first time this weekend in about two years and tested out some of the new rides. Much to our surprise, the new wooden rollercoaster Renegade is awesome! Now, I’m not tying to say that I thought Renegade wasn’t going to be good. It just wasn’t that tall and you didn’t […]

One Week With My Microsoft 5000 Mouse

  • 27 Jul, 2007

When my Mighty Mouse stopped scrolling down, I was sad. When I broke it trying to clean it, I was depressed. But now I have a Microsoft Wireless 5000 Laser mouse and I’m pretty happy once again. I’ve never been a Microsoft Fan. I refuse to install Word or Excel on my iMac and, come […]

Switching to Safari? Maybe, Maybe Not

  • 25 Jul, 2007

I’m a pretty big Firefox user and I do love the browser, but there are a few things I don’t like. Basically the time it takes to launch or open a new window. It just seems to get bogged down every now and then. Safari on the other hand just pops right up. So, I’m […]