We’ve got Varekai tickets tonight. Gonna have a grand ol’ time with Stacy and Steve!

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Had to happen sooner or later. Pixar has chosen not to extend their distribution deal with Disney after 2006.

Roy Disney is all over it.

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Seems like the traffic on the Blizzard site has let up a bit, and you can now get in to fill out a beta application for World of Warcraft. They stop taking applications on the 4th, so you should probably do it now before you forget!

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I wish I had thought of this:

Kan U spell a bargain on eBay?

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I received a jury duty notice at my old address the other day.

I find that interesting considering I changed the address on both my voting records and my DMV records months ago.

I don’t live in LA County anymore anyway, so I think they can’t touch me! OC all the way, baby!

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Weaknees.com sells TiVo upgrade kits, and they’re actually very reasonably priced!

I bet someone reading this right now is saying to themselves “But anyone can upgrade their Tivo! All it takes is a new hard drive and some time!” True!

Luckily, Weaknees also provides a do-it-yourself online interactive tutorial free of charge. That’s nice of them!

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Tammy got her wisdom teeth out on Friday and has been in great pain ever since. So we’ve both been at home for a while now, but we’re going back to work tomorrow.

The time away from work has given me an opportunity to buckle down and scan in our 400+ wedding photos. Our complete album is now online at tammyandbrett.com. We also received our wedding DVD a week or so ago, so I put some of that up there as well.

I wouldn’t have been able to do it without PhotoShop Album. It made it so easy to auto-correct lighting problems and to organize all of the photos that I don’t know how I would have done it otherwise. It didn’t always get the cropping right on the scanned photos, and I wasn’t about to go in and crop each one by hand, but aside from that I have no complaints.

PS Album also has an option to export an html photo gallery. It works really well, but the html templates are unfortunately un-customizable, so I had to rely on some random shareware tool that I found somewhere to generate the pages and thumbnails for me instead. Anyway it came out pretty well I think.

http://www.tammyandbrett.com/

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Domestic dispute turns deadly less than a mile from my house.

Lovely!

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Adblock is the single greatest plugin for Mozilla/Firebird ever made. Properly configured, it will block just about all advertising content on the web. It can block images, iframes, and even javascript content.

It’ll allow you to set your browser to look for certain strings in image URLs which can then be blocked. For example,

*/ads/*

would block anything like:

http://www.doubleclick.com/banners/ads/15.gif

or

http://www.bannermonster/ads/flashcrap.swf

Having something like an */ads/* wildcard will definitely work well, but I’ve found that most ad banners include their dimensions within their filenames. For example, using *480×60* would block any banner with 480×60 in its path or filename, regardless of what directory it’s in or server it’s on.

Once you install AdBlock, you can right-click an offending image to add a block rule to your list. It’s super easy to set up, and it took me like two minutes to configure it with some simple blocking rules. Some good sites to test it out on are:

tomshardware.com

anandtech.com

cnn.com

ign.com

I also messed around with another Mozilla extension, BannerBlind. BannerBlind filters ads by their dimensions and their dimensions only. Unfortunately it didn’t seem to work at all with Firebird!

Prior to finding Adblock I had been using Siemens’ free WebWasher proxy software to block ads, but that thing hasn’t been updated in at least a year. I’m uninstalling that as we speak! One less program to run.

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Matt Ouimet is doing great things to Disneyland right now. Maintenance and upkeep procedures abandoned a decade ago when Paul Pressler came on board appear to be coming back in a big way.

Give them another year or two, and I bet Disneyland will be as fun to visit as it used to be in the 80s.

Speaking of which, our annual passes expire next week and we can’t really afford to renew them. So I guess it’s going to be a while before we’re back in the park, which is sad. Who knows – maybe our tax refund this year will save us.

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