While I try to avoid being too stereotypically geeky, I couldn't help but want to shout w00t! at the top of my lungs when I upgraded to the latest version of the del.icio.us bookmarks extension for Firefox.
(I didn't, of course, but I wanted to.)
My joy comes from the fact that while they have occupied Firefox's bookmark folder since their first release, they have finally retreated to the sidebar or a drop-down list!
WhooHoo!
This means I can drag and drop bookmarks like usual, but still have the full-featured tagging goodness of del.icio.us bookmarks! Sure there's the official del.icio.us firefox addon they try to push on you when you first sign up, but if you've tried the del.icio.us bookmarks extension
(also produced by Yahoo! Inc), then you know there is no comparison.
The cool thing about the bookmarks extension is that you don't just have a couple of bookmarks to add a shortcut or view your del.icio.us account, you actually have access to your del.icio.us bookmarks from within the firefox interface, including incremental searches of tags, page titles, and page descriptions. Seriously guys, w00t!
For some reason, when the extension first came out, they disabled the bookmarks functionality of firefox intending on completely replacing it with your del.icio.us account. Fortunately, they realized some people may not want to bookmark their bank's website in del.icio.us, even if you can mark it as "private". Or that maybe some people want some good old fashioned bookmarks that they can drag and drop to manage when they are in a hurry.
Enter version 1.4.25, the best of both worlds.
It is the klondike bar of del.icio.us extensions, but it doesn't melt when someone tries to hold a conversation with you while you are trying to enjoy its ice-cream-chocolatey-goodness.
So, open up the freezer and grab yourself a del.icio.us klondike bar of bookmark tagging goodness and hit it hard and fast, without the fear of brain freeze.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Saturday, February 10, 2007
A Fortunate Series of Unfortunate Events
There, that should avoid any copyright issues, right?
Actually I say "fortunate" because God has definitely provided in all of the events.
Let's start at the beginning of the week when your's truly decides to file taxes early. Apparently we owe more than we've ever owed before. This would normally freak me out, but since God has been providing for everything up till now, I figured why would he stop now?
I check out the KBB value of my car, and for a trade-in it would roughly pay for what I still owe on it and give us enough to cover taxes. Woot! God provides again!
This weekend my wife and I decide to celebrate four years of marriage (another woot! would go great here) by going out of town. I made reservations weeks ago, so I went home early Friday to do some last-minute file management at home. (I'm a little OCD when it comes to record-keeping, and being away from the filing cabinets and file server is a little scary to me.) I hear the rain start outside, which shocks me because of how sunny it has been all day. When I step outside to see how bad the rain is, I notice it isn't raining. Despite the lack of rain, there is water coming down the door to my storage area. The problem: my storage area is covered! I open the door and water is pouring in from 1 or 2 stories above me! Apparently someone's water-heater broke and was flooding the floors below (including mine). As I'm walking through my apartment calling the office every few minutes when I think of one other thing I think they should know, I step into my bedroom and about halfway into the room the carpet is soaked and very squishy. (To the point of squirting water a few inches with each step I took.)
Fortunately, this is all covered by my apartment and they get the above water shut off in a matter of minutes, a new water-heater for the poor guys above me in about 30 minutes, and a flood recovery service in within the hour, all at no cost to me. Praise God! He provides again!
I run out the door to get the oil changed in the car, and they notice some stuff hasn't been done recently that should be done every 3 months or so. (And I haven't had it done at all during the 3 years I've owned the car!) Praise God! He gets it fixed before anything dramatic happens!
I then pick up my wife from her work, we fill up the car with fuel, and head up to the hotel about an hour away. We check in, and the room looks great! Until we notice that the towels haven't been washed and there is trash in the wastebaskets. We go to the front desk, and they fortunately have another room just like it and it looks awesome! They are super friendly about it apologizing all the time. (Considering they only charged me $26/night for a King sized room with desk, internet access, blow dryer, iron, and all that good stuff, I'll let it slide.) Praise God for us still having a place to stay!
The next day (today) we drive back to our church because my wife leads in the Children's Ministry. We planned on leaving around 3:30 in the afternoon, but for no apparent reason around 12:00 we decide to drive to the lunch hall instead of walk (just in case we hang out for a while and need to hurry up and leave). After loading up all the stuff for the Children's Ministry in the car I notice the back tire is low on air, so we figure we'll just head to the nearest town and air it up. We stop by the main office and find out the place we are staying at has an air compressor so we drive over to it and right before I air it up, I find a 1/4" nail in the tread.
Praise God we found this before driving an hour on it!! Plus, if we hadn't found it until 3:30 we wouldn't have made it in time for my wife to help out in the Children's Ministry.
I pull out the spare, check the pressure, and my digital reader tells me it is 30PSI instead of 60! Thank goodness I found that out quickly! So I air it up, but after 50 the reader just reads a bunch of 8's. I decide to just use it as-is instead of over inflating it. We pop on the spare and drive an hour and a half back home (top speed is now 50 instead of 75) and I drop my wife off at the house so she can drive over to the church while I get the tire repaired.
She makes it to the church in plenty of time to get ready, and I head over to my local Sam's Club (because I'm also a very frugal individual). They are awesome and repair the tire for free! We don't need new tires, woohoo!!!
Praise God again for providing a free tire repair (see "tax issue" above).
The repair guy then tells me that whoever inflated the spare last inflated it to 90PSI!!! (I will be throwing the digital reader away as soon as I finish blogging this!)
Praise God we made it over 60 miles on a highly overinflated spare tire!!
Conclusion:
There are two ways to look at this week:
The world would say I should be more logical, I should focus on what is happening and react accordingly. Instead, we've been praying and praising God and we have been more open to seeing, recognizing, and accepting His solutions to our problems, rather than trying to solve them ourselves.
I have to say it at least one more time: Praise God!
Actually I say "fortunate" because God has definitely provided in all of the events.
Let's start at the beginning of the week when your's truly decides to file taxes early. Apparently we owe more than we've ever owed before. This would normally freak me out, but since God has been providing for everything up till now, I figured why would he stop now?
I check out the KBB value of my car, and for a trade-in it would roughly pay for what I still owe on it and give us enough to cover taxes. Woot! God provides again!
This weekend my wife and I decide to celebrate four years of marriage (another woot! would go great here) by going out of town. I made reservations weeks ago, so I went home early Friday to do some last-minute file management at home. (I'm a little OCD when it comes to record-keeping, and being away from the filing cabinets and file server is a little scary to me.) I hear the rain start outside, which shocks me because of how sunny it has been all day. When I step outside to see how bad the rain is, I notice it isn't raining. Despite the lack of rain, there is water coming down the door to my storage area. The problem: my storage area is covered! I open the door and water is pouring in from 1 or 2 stories above me! Apparently someone's water-heater broke and was flooding the floors below (including mine). As I'm walking through my apartment calling the office every few minutes when I think of one other thing I think they should know, I step into my bedroom and about halfway into the room the carpet is soaked and very squishy. (To the point of squirting water a few inches with each step I took.)
Fortunately, this is all covered by my apartment and they get the above water shut off in a matter of minutes, a new water-heater for the poor guys above me in about 30 minutes, and a flood recovery service in within the hour, all at no cost to me. Praise God! He provides again!
I run out the door to get the oil changed in the car, and they notice some stuff hasn't been done recently that should be done every 3 months or so. (And I haven't had it done at all during the 3 years I've owned the car!) Praise God! He gets it fixed before anything dramatic happens!
I then pick up my wife from her work, we fill up the car with fuel, and head up to the hotel about an hour away. We check in, and the room looks great! Until we notice that the towels haven't been washed and there is trash in the wastebaskets. We go to the front desk, and they fortunately have another room just like it and it looks awesome! They are super friendly about it apologizing all the time. (Considering they only charged me $26/night for a King sized room with desk, internet access, blow dryer, iron, and all that good stuff, I'll let it slide.) Praise God for us still having a place to stay!
The next day (today) we drive back to our church because my wife leads in the Children's Ministry. We planned on leaving around 3:30 in the afternoon, but for no apparent reason around 12:00 we decide to drive to the lunch hall instead of walk (just in case we hang out for a while and need to hurry up and leave). After loading up all the stuff for the Children's Ministry in the car I notice the back tire is low on air, so we figure we'll just head to the nearest town and air it up. We stop by the main office and find out the place we are staying at has an air compressor so we drive over to it and right before I air it up, I find a 1/4" nail in the tread.
Praise God we found this before driving an hour on it!! Plus, if we hadn't found it until 3:30 we wouldn't have made it in time for my wife to help out in the Children's Ministry.
I pull out the spare, check the pressure, and my digital reader tells me it is 30PSI instead of 60! Thank goodness I found that out quickly! So I air it up, but after 50 the reader just reads a bunch of 8's. I decide to just use it as-is instead of over inflating it. We pop on the spare and drive an hour and a half back home (top speed is now 50 instead of 75) and I drop my wife off at the house so she can drive over to the church while I get the tire repaired.
She makes it to the church in plenty of time to get ready, and I head over to my local Sam's Club (because I'm also a very frugal individual). They are awesome and repair the tire for free! We don't need new tires, woohoo!!!
Praise God again for providing a free tire repair (see "tax issue" above).
The repair guy then tells me that whoever inflated the spare last inflated it to 90PSI!!! (I will be throwing the digital reader away as soon as I finish blogging this!)
Praise God we made it over 60 miles on a highly overinflated spare tire!!
Conclusion:
There are two ways to look at this week:
- We find out we owe more than ever on taxes, and even owe "estimated taxes" for next year,
- we have our apartment flooded and all of our bookshelves ruined,
- we get a room that hasn't been cleaned,
- we get a flat tire while out of town,
- and we over inflate our spare because of a faulty tire pressure gauge.
- God provided exactly what we needed to cover our taxes,
- we get free carpet cleaning and mold testing, and potentially free carpet replacement and water-damage repair if it is needed,
- we get a new room on a floor with a better view of the mountains,
- we get free tire-repair,
- and God prevents us from having a spare tire blow out on us.
The world would say I should be more logical, I should focus on what is happening and react accordingly. Instead, we've been praying and praising God and we have been more open to seeing, recognizing, and accepting His solutions to our problems, rather than trying to solve them ourselves.
I have to say it at least one more time: Praise God!
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