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Thunderbird 1.0 – Free Safe and Fast Email Client

  • 7 Dec, 2004

Today Mozilla announced the availability of Thunderbird 1.0. This standalone email application is a great alternative to Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Apple’s Mail.app or Eudora. Thunderbird is a free download and comes packed with many features including labels, junk mail filters, HTML mail composition, smart folders, message encryption, digital signing, message grouping (threading), great search […]

IBM to buy Apple? I think not!

  • 6 Dec, 2004

Well the rumors are flying. IBM is looking to get rid of their PC division some claim that they may the buy Apple. I don’t think anyone buys Apple. If anything they’ll partner but I doubt that happen as Apple has high standards and I think Steve Jobs is a control freak. In a good […]

Santa’s Got a Brand New Bag

  • 6 Dec, 2004

Every year when Christmas comes around I love hearing the new music. However it’s hard to hear everything and find the good stuff. Now I’m a fan of the traditional Let It Snow and Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas but they’ve been done over and over again. What I really like to hear is […]

The Perfect Gift Could Be On EBAY

  • 5 Dec, 2004

Have you ever stopped to think that the best gifts could be on eBay for cheap? You can find anything there. From Christmas presents to birthday, anniversary, or other special occasions. And since an eBay account is free you can sign up and start finding great bargains today! We shopped for wedding accessories on eBay […]

How To Keep A Cat Out Of A Christmas Tree [updated x2]

  • 4 Dec, 2004
Cat in Christmas Tree with Santa

See the updated post with some great new ideas. Update 2: We have found out that our cats hate Canned Air.  You know, the stuff you clean your keyboards with.  We are using that on them whenever they get close to the tree and hopefully they’ll learn.  They are much better than in the past […]

Who Sends 5Mb Email Forwards?!

  • 3 Dec, 2004

I just got a forward from my mom and I’m not happy with whoever sent it to her as it’s a 5MB forward! First off that’s got to be horrible on her dial up. And secondly it’s eating up valuable server space. If you get a forward that’s over 1Mb, just trash it. All you […]

A Blog With So Many Features

  • 3 Dec, 2004

Well so far WordPress has been lots of fun. Everything seemed to make it over and there is so much to explore. I’m still working on the interface also. For some reason I can’t get it to be only 80% wide. There is some CSS code somewhere that I haven’t found yet. Once that’s done […]

Goodbye Blogger. Hello WordPress!

  • 2 Dec, 2004

I have decided to move this blog away from blogger and onto my own servers using WordPress as my blogging software. I still really like blogger but the downtimes are getting to me and the fact that any minor change to the template means I have to republish everything. There are some other minor reasons […]

Welcome to the New Blog

  • 2 Dec, 2004

Welcome to the brand new blog. You’ll have to make sure to update your bookmarks and RSS feeds. However, this blog is still under major development. All the posts are moved over from blogger and things seem to be working, however I’m still tweaking the interface and page names to suit my needs. It’s something […]

2004 Hay Bale Snowman

  • 1 Dec, 2004

The 2004 Hay Bale Snowman is up! Christi and I, along with my parents, put it up Thanksgiving weekend. It was bitter cold but that didn’t kill our enthusiasm. Since this picture was taken the mouth has been updated and another string of lights may have been put on in his midsection. If you’d like […]