San Diego is a beautiful city and Michael Cutri takes beautiful photographs of it. Below is a slideshow of his San Diego photos on Flickr. You can also check out his website if you’re interested in purchasing any of his photos.

[tags]San Diego, photos, Flickr[/tags]

One of the useful features in Firefox 2.0 is the ability to add keywords to bookmarks which in turn can be used for quick navigation to your favorite sites. For example, if you bookmarked www.google.com and added a keyword of “g” you could then type “g” in the location bar of the browser, hit Enter, and be whisked away to Google’s homepage.

The keyword functionality can also be used to perform quick searches. I’ll use the Google example again. You can perform a search for the word “blog” using Google with the following URL: http://www.google.com/search?q=blog. In order to create a quick search you could bookmark http://www.google.com/search?q=%s and again add a keyword of “g”. Now, if you were type “g blog” in the location bar of the browser the “%s” in the bookmark is replaced with “blog” and you are taken to the results page for your search.

You can find more details at the following links:

Mozillazine - Using keyword searches

Linebacker - Firefox and the art of keyword bookmarking

A useful Firefox extension for keyword bookmarking is mentioned in the Lifehacker article. You can find the extension here.

[tags]Firefox, bookmarking[/tags]

I received According to Plan by Graeme Goldsworthy as a gift this week. I’m hoping to finish it before school begins on the 22nd.

[tags]books, reading, Biblical Theology[/tags]

I like to keep the desktop on my laptop clutter-free. I almost never place any shortcut icons or files on the desktop. The one exception is for anything I will temporarily need quick access to but will be disposed of or moved soon.

In addition to the clutter-free desktop I enjoy using beautiful photos for my desktop wallpaper. I change my wallpaper every two weeks or so. I’m constantly on the lookout for new photos to use. Recently I came across mandolux. There is a wealth of great photos in various resolutions available at the site.

Below are two screenshots of my desktop from today and early December.

If you’re a geek like me and want to check out other people’s desktops there are plenty of great screenshots at Flickr under the tags desktopshowandtell and mydesktop.

Feel free to post links to screenshots of your desktop in the comment section if you like.

[tags]desktop, screenshots[/tags]

Imagine seeing one of these in your neighborhood.

A man in Georgia shot and killed this wild pig that had been tearing up yards in his neighborhood. The pig weighs 1,100 pounds! It’s just a little larger than those raccoons that like to dig through your trash.

You can watch the video from CNN here.

[tags]video, CNN, news[/tags]