Well, poor Judd-the-cat got a little matt problem this winter. Too much hanging out in the shower and getting wet.
We had the groomer come in, and 30 minutes and a couple rodeo like moments later we were left with this:
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He’s feeling much better though looks a little bit like Pan with his shaved back legs. I _think_ he forgives us (for both the shaving and the oragami crown)
Last night was the annual San Francisco Chinese New Year’s Parade. We went as we try to do each year. Typically it’s cold and either raining or so foggy that it might as well be. This year was balmy and spring-like (like the last whole week has been). We came from all four corners of the city, bought our dozen Chinese Donuts/Sesame balls, ate our dozen of the same.
The parade was beautiful as usual. A couple floats seemed to be a little too commercial (more like ads)
After the parade was over, the streets were still shut down and we had the chance to walk around. The ground was littered with spent firecrackers and the snap pops.
We were at the bottom of a hill near Portsmouth Square to watch most of the parade, a little anoying since some kids kept lighting and rolling stink-smoke bombs down Clay Street. My lungs still hurt. Ugh.
Last weekend a copy of Firefox 1.5 automatically upgraded itself on my Windows laptop. Upon restarting the application I was no longer able to view any websites. Any web address put in would seemingly resolve quickly but only render a blank white screen. If you view source, you would get the source of the blank page.
Removing Firefox and reinstalling did nothing to change this behaviour.
Removing my profile did nothing
Launching Firefox in Firefox (safe mode) seemed to work sometimes, but then stopped completely.
Mozilla and IE continued to work as expected
I read the Firefox 1.5.0.1 release notes today and saw a notice that some firewall products silently disable Firefox’s access to the network.
Sure enough, my local firewall had Firefox in all RED as a BLOCKED product. Click / Click and all was well in the world.
I moved my old profile back to its original location and all is right as rain.
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