Thank You

Today is Memorial Day. I want to take a moment to say Thank You. Thank You for all that you have done and continue to do for this country and its citizens.

Best Entrance Ever

With almost a week of hype leading up to the Stanley Cup Finals, I was starting to get sick to my stomach with all praise being laid at the feet of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Granted, they’re good, but they haven’t won it yet. They still have to beat the Red Wings. Plus, I don’t like the Penguins or Sidney Crosby all that much.

It’s also been very funny how all these Penguins fans have emerged from nowhere. Just 15 months ago, the Penguins were about to leave Pittsburgh. Now that they’re winning, they suddenly have this fantastic fan base. But, I digress.

Here is the entrance by Penguins goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury last night. I’m still laughing at this.

Pitcher Traded For Bats

And no, don’t think that means a team trading a pitcher for a player that can hit. A minor league pitcher was actually traded for 10 bats.

I’ve heard people joke, saying that they would trade an underperforming player from their team for some piece of equipment, like a bucket of balls or bag of pucks. I never thought I would actually see it happen.

Read more about it here.

Firefox 3

I’ve been using the beta version of the next Mozilla Firefox release, Firefox 3 and just recently upgraded to Firefox release candidate 1. I’m one of those early adopters and jump on new software when I can to get the latest and greatest features, even if I have to go through the issues with beta releases. As long as there is no huge effect on my daily work, I’ll take the small hiccups.

The Firefox 3 beta 5 was pretty solid, just the occasional browser crashes, nothing huge. Release candidate 1 is even better. I really haven’t seen much as far as problems, even though Mozilla published a list of known issues.

I do most of my work on Mac OS 10.5 and Firefox 3 is a superb upgrade on the Mac side. I prefered Safari over Firefox 2, it just seemed a bit clunky. Firefox 3 is sleeker and isn’t the memory hog Firefox 2 was. On the Windows side, I’ve always used Firefox, and version 3 is running nice on XP.

There is a cool Firefox plugin I’ve found call Foxmarks that syncs your bookmarks on multiple computers. I use it to sync the bookmarks on the Mac OS and Win XP sides of my Intel MacBook.

Definitely check out Firefox 3. Just remember, it still has its known issues.

Keith Primeau’s 5 Overtime Goal

This year’s NHL Playoffs have been exciting as hell. The Flyers are set to start their series with the Penguins this Friday. The last time these two teams met in the playoffs was back in 2000. It was game four that went to a 5th overtime, 8 total periods of play. I still get excited thinking about Keith Primeau’s game winning goal. Check it out here.