Via Say Uncle I found Foxit, which is a pdf reader.  I have always disliked how Adobe Reader bogged down my machine (Uncle called it "bloatware").  So now I have been able to get rid of that beached whale of a program and use Foxit.  It's way faster, and way smaller.  Unfortunately, it doesn't look like there's a Firefox plug-in for it yet, so as far as I can tell it can't be used to display a pdf within the browser.  I never do this anyway, because it always bogged down Firefox for so long that I've always just downloaded the pdf and then displayed it outside of Firefox.

The other one I recently found is called MWSnap.  This one is for taking screen captures, and can save in a variety of formats including bmp and png.  Much better than the old one I was using that saved only in an extremely lossy jpg.

Both are freeware.

I noticed a reference to my site just a little while ago from a site called GunBloggers.  It's an offshoot of Liberty News.

Here's the announcement about gunbloggers.com from March 1.  "This is similar to the TTLB GunBlogs community, except that it works."  Heh heh.

It works fast, too.  A post of mine appeared there within only a few minutes of its posting.

It's new to me.  So is Liberty News.  Gunbloggers.com isn't as pretty as TTLB, but like he said, it works.  So you might want to check it out.

Also, it looks like if you are in the TTLB Gunblogger Community, you are automatically in GunBloggers.

"Happy" only because the good guy isn't going to be prosecuted for defending himself, and can't be taken to civil court either because of Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law.

At The Smallest Minority.

Note that this is another case in which the victim got the gun away from his attacker.

Note also that the 3-day waiting period very nearly got this person--and possibly his wife--killed.

Note also the "baggy pants syndrome."

I remember several years ago I read a newspaper account in San Antonio of a burglar who was being chased by cops.  The burglar was wearing "baggy pants."  He tripped over them, fell and broke his femur.

When will they ever learn?  Live by the pants, die by the pants.

Sometimes I am so easily amused.

More fun at Brewtopia.