Since the release of Firefox v3, it seems like the web has been saturated with Firefox “Top 10 Extensions!” lists. Amazingly, every list is different; which leads me to wonder if there are any two Firefox installations that are exactly alike.
So, who am I to buck the trend? I’ll buck it by listing just my [...]

During a normal web surfing session, where would you think that I spend over half of my time? The answer would be Google Reader. As of this post, I have 120 subscriptions listed there. That means that if feed readers such as Google didn’t exist, that would be 120 web sites I would have to [...]

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Nah, just a building at the Navy base in San Diego.

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It appears that there is still a portion of the western Mississippi Gulf Coast that hasn’t updated to post-katrina (and, no, I still don’t capitalize that word) images on Google Maps. The area where the old blends with the new shows an amazing contrast of just what destruction a hurricane can do.

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It seems that there is a big buzz around the blogosphere and internet news sites concerning Google Maps’ return to pre-katrina satellite views for the New Orleans area.
First of all, it could be that I’m just on a renegade Google data center, but I haven’t seen the post-katrina views for over a year now. Big [...]

Now you see it, now you don’t. Looks like Google Maps had a challenge blending post-katrina and pre-katrina shots.

Hope the incoming traffic stops in time…

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At first glance, this looks like an arial dogfight.

As it turns out, it’s just some shrimp boats off the Louisiana coast.

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This boat remains where Hurricane Ivan left her two years ago. Zoom out and you can see more derelict boats.

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Now that Google Maps has updated locally with increased resolution, I thought I would do a little cruise around the neighborhood. At first glance, you would have to think, “Wow, there sure is a pile of swimming pools around here.”

As it turns out, if you zoom in, the blue you see is actually just blue [...]