Monthly Archives January 2008

FCC Auction: C-Block Minimum Bid Met. Was it Google?

$4,713,823,000! The high bid came this morning and placed on the highly desired C-block of frequencies that is being currently auctioned off by the FCC. Now the big question for me is who made the bid? I’m especially interested in this for one reason:
Google
Why Google? Back in August, 2007 I wrote up an article about [...] Read more »

Rising Numbers-And I Thought I was me…

I’ve been very pleased over the past few weeks with the way my blog here had been doing as far as my statistics and the numbers thereof were concerned. Very pleased in fact. Of course if you knew me well enough you’d realize that it doesn’t take much to make me feel that way still, [...] Read more »

Punxsutawney, PA. Weather Iffy for Feb. 2nd

Will there be six more weeks of winter or not this year? The answer is up in the air as the forecast for Punxsutawney, PA is either going to be cloudy, mostly cloudy, partly cloudy or mostly sunny depending on which weather service you’re looking at. Much like the weather we’ve been experiencing so [...] Read more »

And You Think You Have Snow?

Washington State Department of Transportation
In this photo released by the Washington State Department of Transportation, a large plow tries to clear the snow after an avalanche fell from the east on Snoqualmie Pass in Washington state, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. Periodic heavy snow began falling in Eastern Washington and northern Idaho over the weekend, [...] Read more »

Firefox 3-Visual Refresh. A Change for the Better.

 
Found a bit more of the visual refresh for Firefox 3 in place when I downloaded the latest update to the nightly builds this morning and it looks like the new "Back and Forward" buttons are in place. I noticed these buttons, especially the Back button, were a bit on the pixilated side and [...] Read more »

Turned Away at the Drive through for Being Deaf?

My fellow blogger and fellow deaf type person, Karen Putz of A Deaf Mom Shares Her World, was turned away from a Steak and Shake drive through window that she’s been served at many times before and for what you might ask? For being deaf and by the general manager himself.
Now I’m not going to [...] Read more »

Can I Shoot my Cat?

The cat puked on my eyeglass case. He also managed to wurble on my set of keys while he was at it. And he actually jumped up on the table to hurl all over said personal property and then had the audacity to be sitting there by his doings as I came stumbling out to [...] Read more »

Firefox 3-Visual Beginnings

It’s beginning to look a lot like a different looking Firefox is just around the corner with the first hints of the new visual refresh showing up in the nightly builds. Now what you see at the left is the beginnings of the refresh that will be seen when used on Windows XP and as [...] Read more »