http://www.andrewflynn.com Minister of Information, Arbiter of Stylesheets Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:03:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was looking forward to the release of Firefox 3. Though I hadn't downloaded any of the betas or release-candidates, I was confident in the team, and pretty sure that it would be a seamless transition from 2.0.0.14 to 3.0. http://www.andrewflynn.com/2008/06/18/why-ive-already-uninstalled-firefox-3/ Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) Your remarkable talent for procrastination will result in your winning the Nobel Prize for Literature Thrown Together at the Very Last Possible Minute. This was from late 1999 or so.  I'm sure many would agree this is extremely applicable. http://www.andrewflynn.com/2008/02/17/my-favorite-horoscope-from-the-onion/ My friend Brad just posted about the Page 123 meme that's been going around for a while now. He has a pretty good post, even attempting to trace the origins of the internet time-wasting sensation. So here were the two books I had closest, and the gory details: First ... http://www.andrewflynn.com/2008/02/12/brad-posts-about-the-page-123-meme/ So a few months ago, Lifehacker was asking folks to submit photos of their "Go-Bag" - the bag that web professionals grab when they are on the go. Some posted a very minimal set - a PDA, keys, cell phone, and that's it. My contribution was a little ... http://www.andrewflynn.com/2008/02/11/lifehacker-posts-my-go-bag/ I just received my Arizona early-voting ballot for the 2008 Republican Primary. I must say I was surprised when I was presented with twenty-four candidates on the ballot. Most political news has centered around the 17 presidential candidates, which includes both parties. So, I thought I knew hands-down who I ... http://www.andrewflynn.com/2008/01/17/researching-the-arizona-republican-primary/ (I needed to get this out prior to the announcement tomorrow) In Like My Surname . . . Bert Blyleven - Quite simply the best player not in the Hall of Fame, and better than many already enshrined. YOU try winning 300 games playing for those teams. Goose Gossage - Dominating. His induction ... http://www.andrewflynn.com/2008/01/07/my-2008-hall-of-fame-ballot/ Following Kottke's example, here is my list of places I visited last year. (a * indicates multiple visits): Chandler, AZ San Jose, CA* Santa Clara, CA* Oakland, CA* San Francisco, CA* Anaheim, CA San Diego, CA Chicago, IL Holland, MI* Hudsonville, MI* Las Vegas, NV* New York, NY Kohler, WI My Year in Cities, 2007 (kottke.org) http://www.andrewflynn.com/2008/01/01/my-year-in-cities-2007/ For those folks that find reading a 759-page novel too intimidating or time consuming, below is a synopsis of the final Harry Potter installment in 20 sentences. As the IMDb Trivia section says, "Here be spoilers!". If you need a refresher course or a brush-up for the watercooler session, dive ... http://www.andrewflynn.com/2007/12/24/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-in-twenty-sentences/ So, revisiting this site since the last work on it over Thanksgiving vacation . . . and it's now Christmas Vacation. This doesn't bode well for site updates. Re-worked the fonts for the sIFR plug-in. For some reason, certain punctuation was not working in Agency FB font - such as apostrophes, ... http://www.andrewflynn.com/2007/12/22/things-arent-quite-right-just-yet/ Now that the majority of the Andrew Flynn website is up and running, now I guess it's time to enter some good ol' content. Although this blog will cover a range of topics, this first non-"Hello World!" post will detail what I've gone through just to get to this point. Theme: ... http://www.andrewflynn.com/2007/11/05/well-i-guess-now-its-time-to-add-some-content/