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Reflections on June 8th, 2012:

Moving into the rest of our life………… Over the last several years Alice and I have been “wintering” with our motor-home at a campground i...

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Steam Train Ride & Riverboat Cruise


Mike Sleights reports we have over thirty folks signed up for the Essex Valley Railroad Steam train ride\riverboat cruise this coming Saturday....we're bringing the grandkids and are certainly looking forward to it!

Switching to Firefox web browser...


I recently "upgraded" from Internet Explorer 6 to their newly released vs 7. My first impression was a positive one (the tabs feature, the "shrink to fit" mode for printing web pages), and its generally clean look. My second impression was that things had definitely slowed down. It appears their anti-phishing scheme is using a lot of overhead, as are their other security upgrades.

That having been experienced, on the advice of a friend, I downloaded and tested the new Mozilla Firefox vs 2.0 browser on my notebook pc. I was so impressed with it we put it on the desktop. There were some "plug in" issues that were easily resolved, and I'm now a dedicated Firefox enthusiast. It's sleek, it's fast and it's secure. What's not to love?