January – 2008 – The Downwash Blog

Monthly Archives: January 2008

Extended Vacation

While the downside of working for four weeks at a time away from home, sometimes the perks are pretty nice.
After talking with the Ops Manager, it looks like I’ll be off until the beginning of February. That’s nearly 6 weeks off!!!
It’s slow right now (which is expected) so he gave me the option of [...]

R.I.P. Netscape

Netscape is dead.
AOL, the company that bought Netscape back in 1999 for a ridiculous amount of cash (reports range from $4 billion to $10 billion) has announced that the once mighty browser will not be supported after February 1, 2008.
The remaining 4 users of Netscape will be devastated.
Netscape was the first commercially available browser back [...]

Ahhhh, the holidays are over

I’m not implying that I didn’t enjoy the holidays. They were great… with a certain number of ‘unenjoyable’ moments, like the airplanes packed to capacity with screaming babies or living with Tracey’s sister’s 22 month old nephew for a week.
All-in-all the trip to Kenora was great. Tracey’s parents Ron and Bonnie are [...]