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Happy 4th of July to y'all. It's a lovely sunny morning here in eastern NC. Just hitting 70 degrees at 8am with clear skies and lots of potential for a nice day. I took these two pictures this morning. The morning glories on my deck are just starting to bloom. In a week or two the entire side of my house will be covered in these beauties. It's worth having to clean up after the vines to have so many lovely blooms around on summer mornings. The bell peppers in the picture below are starting to get big enough to be considered food and not just cute ornaments. Unfortunately some of the insect life agrees with me. Damn but I hate to share my food with others!

Happy 4th of July and all that. I watched some fireworks from down on the dock but we're too far from town for it to be all that great. Afterwards we watched some of the Boston Pops celebration. Boston sure does put on an impressive fireworks show. It lasted something like 25 minutes. Amazing stuff. One of the advantages of living in a big city, I guess. Personally I don't think that there's enough advantages to city living to get me to move tho--I still regard my decade in Atlanta with something akin to horror. For some reason this tree stump reminded me of a spider. You can't really get the full impact from this angle but there was too much wave action for me to get the angle I wanted. Since it's the 4th of July there were boats everywhere and kayaking was a constant adventure of bobbing in boat and sea-doo wake, it made staying in one spot to take a picture pretty much impossible.

Mozilla is coming out with a new version of it's very popular web browser soon. Right now they're alpha testing Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 which will eventually replace Firefox. I downloaded it yesterday and so far it's worked like a charm. Since it's in alpha release, I expect to eventually have some issues, of course. With this release, Mozilla is no longer supporting Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME. And so it goes... Gran Paradiso, for what it's worth, is the highest mountain group in the Graian Alps, located in the Aosta Valley region of Italy. It was also the name of a German film (2000) about a crippled fellow that wanted to climb the mountain in the Alps. And now it's the name of a piece of software. And so it goes... Here in the US, we're celebrating the aptly named holiday, the 4th of July . Admittedly that's not a very exciting title but when it was coined Madison Avenue wasn't filled to the brim with marketing agencies. They didn't h...