From /. [Slashdot.org] Opera, my favorite web browser, is celebrating it’s 10th anniversary. As part of their celebration, you can get a free registration code. If you’re worried about privacy, you can just give them a fake email address and copy the code off the confirmation screen.
I guess I can take Opera off my Master Wish List [MasterWish.com]
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Arriving today:
The box needs a bit more RAM and I’ll be throwing a higher end graphics card in it at some point (but with DVI on the motherboard, my only real complaint is shared video memory), but I’ve already got a DVD burner, so no worries about the base CD-ROM drive.
Work can can not end too quickly.
UPDATE 11:56am – The machine arrived and is in working order. I ran Dead Pixel Buddy and display seems to be perfect. I snapped a picture of it setup on my desk at work (which is it’s temporary location until 5:30pm):
So here we are in the third week in August, and this is only my second post for the month. On the upside, traffic is way up. I guess the best way to promote my website is to ignore it completely.
Does anyone else notice that the more they pay attention to their finances the more dire things seem? Everytime I balance my checkbook, or even just bring my ledger (all of which is electronic, BTW) up to date, I get a deep understanding of just how broke I am. On a posative financial note, thanks to the bounty I’m getting for dragging B.K., kicking and screaming, into Corporate America, I’ll be able to finish paying off my car in September instead November (Yes, my company pays a “bounty” to employees who bring in qualified workers for open positions). As I look at what I just said, I realize that it’s not a real financial gain. I mean, the bounty is a real financial gain, but whether I use it to pay off my car, or just use the bounty for whatever I would be using the money I’m not puting into car payments between September and November makes no difference to my total short-term financial outlook. Regardless, I think the moral boost due to owning my car and having one less check to write every month will be a good thing.
Word on the street is there may be another tech support position here opening up. Anybody interested?
Al, please check this:
Equal parts
The second episode of Joss Whedon’s Fireflytonight at 7pm EST on the the Sci-Fi channel. In Serenity – part 2 the we learn more about the naked woman found in the crate at the end of the last episode, how business is done on the outer planets, and what goes bump in the night in outer space. Fort hose of you who missed the first episode, you’re in luck: Sci-Fi will be re-airing Serenity – part 1 at 6pm – right before part 2.
Just 63 days until Serenity, the movie based on Firefly hits the theaters.
7/24/05 – Daniel from Scubaboardand I pulled anchor from the Marina in Holderness and headed for Bean Ledge, which sits somewhere between Sandwich and Center Harbor and is marked by nearly a half dozen buoys due to the rocks that dot the shallows in the area. We anchored on the south-western side of the ledge and swam north along the ledge, deep the shallow and observed many small bass and one large dead trout. We ascended and swam along the surface back to the boat.
I’m thinking about putting adsense ads on the front page of callblog. Heres the issue: I use the free version of Opera, and it’s unobtrusive google text ads are always the same or very similar to adsense ads on the page I’m looking at. When I’m looking at individual entries, the ads are usually related to the content of the entry in some way. When I’m looking at callblog’s front page, the ads are for beard and goatee trimmers. Granted, I do have a pretty sweet goatee. I’m just not sure why google obsesses over it so much.
That being said, bring on the wacky beards!
Just a reminder that Firefly is on the Sci-Fi channel tonight at 7pm EST. Tonight’s episode is Serenity – part 1 (not be confused with Serenity – the movie), which gives the viewer an action-packed introduction to the Firefly universe, introduces all the main characters and ends in a cliffhanger (in the tradition of all good “To be continued” programs). If you can’t catch it, I’d recommend checking out the DVDs.
Sidenote: I would’ve just made my earlier post about this sticky, but that feature isn’t built into WordPress yet.
Various sources are reporting that the international version of the Serenity trailer has been released. The original trailer is hosted at Apple.com.