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Valleyfair’s 4th of July Fireworks

  • 3 Jul, 2006

The sky will be lit with many beautiful colors and exploding sounds on our Nation’s birthday as Valleyfair sets off its Fireworks Spectacular at approximately 10:00 p.m. on July 4th. Ride the rides, enjoy the day and stay for the show.  Sounds great to me. 🙂 Valleyfair will have extended hours on July 4th from […]

Yahoo Messenger Mac 3 Beta 1 Review

  • 2 Jul, 2006

Incase you missed it, Yahoo released beta version 1 of their Yahoo Messenger 3 for the Mac. Overall, it’s an excellent leap forward. Now, most reviews you might read about Yahoo Messenger Mac 3.0 Beta 1 will end up saying that Adium rocks and is superior in most ways. Were as I can’t deny that, […]

Clear Firefox Saved Form Info – Easily

  • 28 Jun, 2006

Now this is handy! I was trying to figure out how to get Gmail to forget a previous email username and password the other day and I came across Mission Data Blog. There they had a simple tip for clearing out saved form information in Firefox: Go to the form where the mistake is.  Put […]

Dropping Spotlight for Quicksilver

  • 26 Jun, 2006

Some people rave and rave about Quicksliver but I haven’t found anything special about until recently. I finally figured out something useful and cool to do with it. Under 10.3.9, which I still have at work, it acts like Spotlight. It’s an amazingly simple find feature that I bring up with the shortcut Apple+space. It […]

Valleyfair income 4th in Cedar Fair Parks in 2005

  • 25 Jun, 2006

Out of the Cedar Fair family of amusement parks, Valleyfair’s income came in 4th in 2005 at $36 million. The 2005 Income List: Cedar Point $210 million Knott’s Berry Farm $186 million Dorney Park $56 million Valleyfair $36 million Worlds of Fun $35 million Geauga Lake $26 million Michigan’s Adventure $19 million Knott’s and Cedar […]

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.