Firefox now crashes immediately on startup. Nice feature... back to Safari. Seriously, I think I will be uninstalling Firefox, and doing a reinstall. As soon as Firefox becomes visible, I get the "Thank you for installin Google Toolbar", and then the mozilla talkback pops up...
Time to go back to watching the hurricane's progress in Safari.
Steve on the Gulf Coast
I was in Kissimmee, which is about 75 miles inland. We were at a perfromance. When we walked outside, coincidentally, we saw the three spots of light in the sky, along with a large plume of smoke. It took us a minute to figure out it was a multi-stage rocket. It was quite impressive, and the last point of light was visible for several minutes.
Speaking as someone who monitored the NOAA website for months after Charley, Frances, and Jeannie... I really can't imagine what the hell they are thinking. Tax dollars paid for NOAA, but for us hurricane survivors, the effects of this could be all too real...
"Honey, bring me the credit card. I have to pay AccuWeather and make a campaign contribution to see where the damn hurricane is."
We had the TV until 30 minutes before Charley hit our area. I was one of the lucky ones that had cellular service restored within 2 days. Power and normal phone service were out for a week. We were able to use the Verizon wireless access to check weather, news, and the occasional Slashdot article. Of course, we needed to charge the laptops with a power inverter in the car. I can't imagine being in that situation again, and also having to pay for AccuWeather. NOAA is still one of the pages that loads when I start Firefox...
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Firefox now crashes immediately on startup. Nice feature... back to Safari. Seriously, I think I will be uninstalling Firefox, and doing a reinstall. As soon as Firefox becomes visible, I get the "Thank you for installin Google Toolbar", and then the mozilla talkback pops up... Time to go back to watching the hurricane's progress in Safari. Steve on the Gulf Coast
I was in Kissimmee, which is about 75 miles inland. We were at a perfromance. When we walked outside, coincidentally, we saw the three spots of light in the sky, along with a large plume of smoke. It took us a minute to figure out it was a multi-stage rocket. It was quite impressive, and the last point of light was visible for several minutes.
Speaking as someone who monitored the NOAA website for months after Charley, Frances, and Jeannie... I really can't imagine what the hell they are thinking. Tax dollars paid for NOAA, but for us hurricane survivors, the effects of this could be all too real...
"Honey, bring me the credit card. I have to pay AccuWeather and make a campaign contribution to see where the damn hurricane is."
We had the TV until 30 minutes before Charley hit our area. I was one of the lucky ones that had cellular service restored within 2 days. Power and normal phone service were out for a week. We were able to use the Verizon wireless access to check weather, news, and the occasional Slashdot article. Of course, we needed to charge the laptops with a power inverter in the car. I can't imagine being in that situation again, and also having to pay for AccuWeather. NOAA is still one of the pages that loads when I start Firefox...