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I just read about a simple little website called “Down for everyone or just me” that is supposed to check whether the problem you’re having loading a specific site is on your end or theirs. I loaded the site once, and it was fine. But when i tried to use it again, it didn’t load. So now, i don’t know whether the site that tells me whether a website is down for everyone or just me is actually down for everyone or just me (quite a mouthful to say). Huh?! I think this raises some philosophical questions somewhere

I accidentally came across this page. What a tremendous water fall!!

As reported on Wikipedia; U.S President Roosevelt’s wife (Eleanor Roosevelt) reportedly exclaimed “Poor Niagara!” upon seeing Iguaçu,

It sure looks magnificent.

click the image for a large panoramic view

I was just filling out this graduate school survey when i was confronted with this nifty little question:

ya3ni seriously, did you really have to specify the unit of measure for this question ? Is it likely that someone will answer you in a unit other years? “well, i am about 280 months old”. Age in months is of course acceptable for babies, but i think that if you are in you’re twenty’s and you’re still measuring your age in months, then something is wrong here. How about i answer them in metric time units just out of spite that’ll be something.

Huh?! .. i just discovered that there are two fire alarms *and* a sprinkler in my (small) bedroom.  Apparently it is expected to combust at any moment!!

This has been annoying me quite alot. I usually find Firefox fast, stable, and dependable. However, recently it started producing momentarily freezes when loading pages with many pictures, big content, or elaborate JavaScript (which i personally didn’t experience before in this high frequency). For example, loading up Qwaider Planet used to cause this behaviour.

Even worse, it started taking much longer than average loading up normal web pages. It would spend many seconds “looking up domains” (which might suggest a DNS issue). What’s odd is that it would do that after a few pages have been opened (i.e, it won’t happen when you first run firefox). However, i didn’t change my network configuration at all.

Anyway, this is all to say that something is wrong with the latest version of Firefox (version 2.0.0.12) and apparently other people have been experiencing this too. If you have been facing these problems (specially pages taking infinitely long to finish loading), i suggest rolling back to a previous version. I went back to 2.0.0.6 and that seemed to work fine. But don’t worry, i think the Mozilla community will release a fix soon.