Blog Changes (A Note To Self)

Posted by Skizelli on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 @ 7:59 AM
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Call it boredom, perfectionism, a need for having something to do, or whatever, but I’ve been pretty eager to make some changes to the blog. So I’ve decided on making the following changes/additions (consider it a note to self):

  • Combine Guild Wars, Halo, Mortal Kombat and World of Warcraft pages into a single Games page.
  • Add an Applications page consisting of my software of choice (shareware/freeware/open source).
  • Add a Television page with a listing of my favorite TV shows with descriptions and IMDB/tv.com links.
  • Maybe a Bookmarks and About page.

Firefox Tweak: Disable Link Focus

Posted by Skizelli on Sunday, August 24th, 2008 @ 5:02 AM
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Call me anal, but I personally hate how Firefox wraps dotted borders around selected links. Here’s how to disable it:

  1. Type about:config in Firefox’s location bar
  2. Find the string: browser.display.focus_ring_width
  3. Set the value to 0

That’s it.

I Saw A UFO Tonight

Posted by Skizelli on Sunday, August 17th, 2008 @ 5:14 AM
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The weirdest thing happened tonight, and I’m still in awe over it. At a little after 3AM, as my brother, Lucas and I were leaving my brother’s place and making our way to his van, something in the far eastern sky catches my brother’s eye. After pointing it out to us, Luke and I fix our eyes on it as well, trying to figure out what it is. The object has an orange color to it, no visible blinking lights, and flickers like a candle. By using a telephone pole as a marker, we could track its movement pattern, which changed directions from left to right, almost as if it were being effected by wind. That is, until we noticed that it became perfectly stationary more than once. Any movement it made was very gradual, but it was traveling. We noticed it was neither getting further away or closer to us and only traveled a very small distance up and to the right from where we originally marked it with the telephone pole.

We were watching this thing for a good 5 or 10 minutes, still clueless as to what it could be, when all of the sudden the unthinkable happens – The object disappears in this very bright, concentrated flash of white light, followed by a loud boom that echoed off the mountains behind us in the far distance. We still don’t know what the hell it was. The only explanations we could come up with were a) it was a craft of some kind that took off at such a high rate of speed that it created that loud boom, or b) it was an explosion of some sort. What we can’t figure out about the explosion theory, however, is the white flash. A firework, perhaps? The only problem with that, though, is that fireworks always have a visible flame or spark. This thing was just a pure white flash of light with no visible flames, sparks or smoke. It was just gone.

I’m sure there’s a logical explanation for it, but we can’t figure it out and I guess we’ll never know.

In any case, I saw a UFO tonight.