Website for family, friends and others looking for useful information.

Archive for June, 2008

Vancouver Sea Wall Open Again

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Looks like the construction along the water North West of Science World has moved back from the water and has opened up the bike path again. I was able to take the kids for a bike ride from Kits Beach to the Stanley Park water park without having to bike on any road with cars. It was fantastic!

If you have kids, or anyone timid about riding with traffic, this is a fantastic bike ride.


View Larger Map

(more…)

Firefox Download Day

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Further to my previous posting Firefox The Best Browser In The World, FireFox 3 is now available for download. The attempt to obtain a Guiness World Record for the most downloads is now being reviewed by Guiness Book of World Records. There were over 8 million downloads within 24 hours. And today the number of downloads is at 22,433,957!

If you haven’t downloaded it yet, you can get it by clicking the graphic below:

Firefox 3

Slow Down Health In Sight - Don’t Scare the Cyclists

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

To the lady driving the Grey Honda CRV on Wednesday June 25th 6:20pm heading West on Cornwall in Vancouver, BC. I’m guessing you were late for a wedding at Jericho beach?

Was it worth the ten seconds you saved by squeezing by those two bicyclists at 60kph? Did you hear them scream in shock and fear as you raced within a foot of their handlebars? Or were you too busy talking on the cell phone? Or maybe you were listening to the radio? Or maybe you were adjusting your makeup?

Please take a moment to think about how dangerous it is to be pushing your metal monster down the road when there are human beings on the road. All it would have taken was one of the cyclists to swerve around a pothole and they would have been mushed into your bumper. Is ten seconds of your life worth someone’s entire life?

A couple of other comments. If you are driving a company vehicle, like you were, don’t you think you should be driving more responsibly? The way you drive will give people an impression about your company. Do you want the name “Health In Sight” associated with disregard for human safety and a healthy form of transportation? You have also kindly provided me with some contact information:

Company Name: Health In Sight
Company Website: www.healthinsight.ca
Company Phone Number: 604.725.2522

And yes, I guessed you went to a wedding because I caught up with your Honda CRV in the parking lot outside the wedding.

 

 

Firefox - The best browser in the world

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

I’m a techno geek and I always getting non-technical people asking me for advice. So you probably received this link because you asked me what is Firefox?

I’ll just say this, it is the best browser in the world.

You can download and install this software for free, it is easier to use and more secure than Internet Explorer. If you want to get fancy, there are all sorts of extra things you can add to Firefox (also for free) to make it do more for you. Firefox isn’t something completely new, there has been over 566 million downloads of this software already.

Now there is a new version just around the corner, Firefox 3. I’ve been playing around with a pre-release copy of it for a while now and think it is fantastic. One feature that I think new users will appreciate is the ability to just type the name of the website you want to go to in the address bar. If you are trying to go to http://www.google.com all you need to type is google and Firefox will send you to the right web page.

Now that Firefox 3 is going to be officially released, you can take part of setting a world record. They are trying to have the most downloads within 24 hours of release. You can download the software anytime, but it would be very cool if you participated in this event by clicking on the following link:

Download Day - English

If you missed the download day, you can still download Firefox anytime you want. Go to the following link:

Firefox 2

Archives

June 2008
M T W T F S S
« May   Jul »
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30  

Other

Syndication