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I apologize to all of my readers for the site being down earlier this morning. Apparently, the MySQL server took a dump due to someone having far too many connections. The activity caused the server to take a dump and dropped service to the blog. I am hoping that the offending party has or will be reprimanded and dealt with swiftly.
Last night Mrs. GrandmasterB and I watched The Bucket List with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. I had been wanting to watch it for awhile now, because I’ve been a big fan of both actors for a long time. Perhaps my favorite Morgan Freeman movie ever is The Shawshank Redemption. I don’t think I could pick out a favorite Nicholson movie, but if I had to I’d lean towards The Shining.
Anyhow, if you haven’t seen the movie yet both characters are terminally ill with cancer and write a list of things they want to do before kicking the bucket…The Bucket List. It got me thinking (which is always a dangerous thing); what would I want to do before I “kick the bucket”. Of course, if you’re younger you don’t think about it very much or you think of silly things. So what would GrandmasterB do? It’s hard to say really. I have always wanted to go shark diving off the coast of South Africa, see Machu Picchu and maybe travel to Thailand.
But what meaningful, fullfilling things would I want to do? Honestly, I don’t know what I would do or could do that would be meaningful or bring joy to other people. I’m sure as time goes by and I grow older and wiser I will find something worthwhile to add to my “bucket list”, only time will tell for sure. So…what would y’all want to do before you “kick the bucket”? What’s is one thing that you want to do in your life?
~ GrandmasterB
The long awaited release of Firefox 3 arrived today and is being released in over 50 different languages for the worldwide release. This newest release is supoosed to be two to three times faster than the previous version. For me, I’m hoping that the Mac version has fixed the memory leak issue. It seemed to bog down quite a bit and needed to have the cache and temporary files constantly deleted to work properly. There are numerous improvements to this version and too many to name. For a look into the inner workings of Firefox 3 check out Lifehacker’s Power User’s Guide to Firefox 3.
The new default theme has been brushed up quite a bit and there’s a new tool bar that glides from the top for remembering passwords. I haven’t dug around too much this afternoon at the office, but I plan on giving it a full run through tonight at home. If you haven’t had a chance to download this latest release you gotta get on it. In an effort to break a Guinness World Record for most downloads in a single day a site called Spread Firefox is counting all of the downloads of Firefox 3. They’ve got a link on the site to download the installer as well as a counter and cool Flash map showing the hotspots around the globe downloading the new Firefox. As of this post the counter is at just over two million downloads. In order for your download to count you must download Firefox 3 by 17:00 UTC on June 18, 2008.
Get out there and get your update now.
~ GrandmasterB
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