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Today (Tuesday, June 17, 2008) is Firefox 3 Download Day. Help Firefox set a Guinness World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours.

I have been using Firefox for the past 4+ years on my Windows PCs, on my Linux Ubuntu box, on my Mac, and my thumb drive to use anywhere. It is the safest way to use the internet. It’s got Add-ons galore to customize it the way you want. Some of the add-ons I use are: ColorZilla, del.icio.us, DownThemAll!, Firebug, Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer, Gmail Notifier, Google Calendar Notifier, Google Notebook, Greasemonkey, MeasureIt and Remember The Milk for Gmail. Don’t forget to add your favorite search engines to the search box like Google, Wikipedia, IMDB, Flickr Tags, Amazon, and SearchMash. One cool feature I use everyday is the inline find.

So dump IE already and move on up to FF.

Some Tips:

• Ctrl+Tab to move through your tabs.
• Ctrl+Shift+T to open the last closed tab.
• Middle click on link to open link in new tab.
• Type “about:config” in address bar to access more advanced settings.
• Ctrl+T to create a new tab.

I was thumbing through the Fry’s Ad the other day and saw a deal on a Network Attached Storage (NAS) I have been pondering, the Buffalo LinkStation Live, for only $140. It is nothing great but would do the job cheap. After getting there and looking around Michelle noticed another NAS on sale, the Iomega StorCenter Network Hard Drive 1TB for $260. It is a dual 500 GB drive NAS with RAID 1 support (so all of our data is on 2 drives in case of a HD failure), Gigabit Ethernet, and support for Mac, Linux and Windows.

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I took the plunge and got a Mac. It was something I wanted to try out but it just happened so quick. The full story will be posted on The Wedekings. All I need now is some Birkenstocks and granola.

Leroy is a 20 year-old 5th grader. This is Leroy’s Ebonics homework assignment. He must use each vocabulary word in a sentence.

1. Foreclose
If I pay alimony today, I got no money foreclose.

2. Rectum
I had two Cadillac’s, but my bitch rectum both.

3. Hotel
I gave my girlfriend crabs, and the hotel everybody.

4. Disappointment
My parole officer tol’ me if I miss disappointment they gonna send me back to the joint.

5. Penis
I went to the doctors and he handed me a cup and said penis.

6. Israel
Tito try to sell me a Rolex. I say, “man, it look fake.” He say, “Bullshit, that watch israel”.

7. Catacomb
I saw Don King at da fight the other night. Man, somebody get that catacomb.

8. Undermine
There’s a fine lookin’ ho living in the apartment undermine.

9. Acoustic
When I was little, my uncle bought me acoustic and took me to the poolhall.

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