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Installed Adobe Acrobat Reader recently? Notice all the crap that comes with it? A TSR to keep it updated (that’s a program that runs in the background ALL THE TIME)? Well, there’s a better way. It’s called “FoxIt.” Good stuff. It is a plugin for Mozilla/Firefox and works just as well, and doesn’t come with any of the crap. Definitely worth looking up. Be sure to uninstall Adobe Reader before you install it — that’s the point, isn’t it?

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/

and I’m still lost, but I feel so much better.

I just heard, from a very reliable source that the world is going to end in 2012! Isn’t that fun? The 21st of December actually is what I hear. Seems the Mayan calendar ends then, and obviously the Mayans knew when the world was going to end. I’m a little disappointed. I would have figured we’d have figured more out by the time time ends. Like more advanced space travel - you know, warp speed stuff. Or maybe time travel. At least holograms. Yeah. Well, here’s to the last few years we have. Nice knowing you.

Well, here’s the deal [yahoo.com]. The AP says that this fall, some large newspaper companies are going to start charging for their services. They claim that advertising revenue has been “drying up.”

The crazyskills news page [crazyskills.net] will continue to provide the very best of free news publications to you, every story, every moment of every day. Ad-free and free as in speech and free as in beer.

“A recent study by the American Press Institute found 58 percent of the responding newspapers are considering online fees. Of that group, 22 percent expect to introduce the fee before the end of the year.”

“Easy tip number one, if you want to talk like a pirate: Add “me hearties” to the end of any sentence.”

“Saturday marks “Talk Like a Pirate Day,” an observance that has been recognized on all seven continents…”

cnn.com/2009/LIVING/09/18/talk.like.a.pirate/index.html?iref=crazyskills [cnn.com]

That;s right — today celebrates the 40^th anniversary of plugging two computers together and expecting them to understand each other. Remarkable, indeed.

So it looks now like the iPhone may be on multiple carriers [cnn.com] by the end of the year, breaking the exclusive relationship between the iPhone and AT&T. I see this is great news, as I would love to own an iPhone but am locked into a Verizon plan.

We’ll keep ya posted!