WeatherPop by Glucose Development is a simple yet complete weather status indicator for Mac OS X.

A status of a 'Primary' location, Glendora in my case, is provided in the top menu bar while detailed forecast data is supplied in a pull-down menu. Update frequencies, weather data sources, locations, and forecast details are all user selectable.

This is yet another great application that has won the right to live in my Mac's menu bar.

UPDATED: On January 15th, Arcade Fire performed a live set at 'Morning Becomes Eclectic' KCRW in Santa Monica, CA.

bradley's almanac has put together some mp3's of the performance.

Thanks to stereogum for the info.

After much thought and careful planning we have decided to sell our house. Ultimately, the reasons to move overwhelmingly exceeded the reasons not to. It's time to make good on our investment and move on.

Our house was listed in the MLS yesterday and we have already had two visits to the house by potential buyers. As for us, our interests are targeted towards some very nice areas in the northern sections of Glendora and La Verne.

The Huygens space probe landed on Titan today and reportedly stayed alive for about two hours. Most of Cassini's photos can be seen here. Hopefully, we'll see some of Huygen's photos soon...

Update: ...and it looks like Mars! ;-)

The new year has been a rainy one for Michelle but she is really enjoying the change in weather, as are Mom and Dad.

Michelle began her "art class" at Gymboree this month and is always bringing home beautiful works of art. She is also showing quite a knack for dancing and displays a special curiosity towards our plecostomus, Shadow.

Michelle is beginning to grasp the use of three-word sentences in her usual commands, um... I mean, requests to Dad. ;-)

She loves the Teletubbies right now and is especially fond of "La La", as it is also her word for "light". Still, my absolute favorite word of hers is "Turtle", which she uses to request a viewing of her animal-picture slides on the computer.

If 2004 was the year of pop-up blocking for the masses, then 2005 will become the year of ad blocking for the masses...

Here's how to block ads in Mozilla Firefox.

1. Download and install the Adblock extension by The Adblock Crew.

2. Restart Firefox.

3. Right-click on any ad then, depending on type, select either 'Adblock Iframe' or 'Adblock Image'. If an ad is Flash-based then an accompaning 'Adblock' tab will allow you to perform the block.

4. An address confirmation box will then appear allowing you to set either a specific block or a general wildcard-based block.

Before

After

Beyond this, Adblock also supports filter importing. Take a look at this site for some pre-made filters.

For Safari ad blocking, take a look at the stylesheet usage prescribed at floopymoose.com.

Everyone else, take a look at this site for an explanation on how to use your system's host config to control ad displays.

This rumor is everywhere and I truly hope it does indeed come to pass. I can think of about a dozen individuals who are in desperate need of this machine! Yes, they are Windows users and yes, their machines are in a constant state of panic and disarray.

If Apple goes through with this, I will be extremely pleased as both a "switcher" (though I actually switched from Windows to Linux and then to Mac) and as a jaded Windows tech who hasn't personally used a Windows box in over four years.

1. PC users can use their existing monitors.


2. $499? That's a great price for a machine that won't come pre-loaded with tons of promotional "junkware" (cough, Dell, cough).


3. Potential for another innovative design from Apple.


4. This can very likely become Michelle's first computer!

Great bargain, however I would highly recommend a RAM upgrade to at least 512 mb for any Mac OS X based machine.