So I figure shoot why not tell enough to in short form on my web site to satisfy the very curious.

Basically I lit a bomb and was not able put the fuse out before it exploded in my hands. I was 11 years old just starting my 6^th grade year in elementary school. I’ll upload more pictures as I can, but right now these two will have to suffice.

The clean picture was taken today; it’s my right hand looks like currently. The bloody messy picture is my right hand on a Wednesday afternoon after school let out in 1992. The bloody picture was taken by a police officer at McKay Dee Hospital in Ogden, Utah.

The accident picture is actually a picture of a picture. That’s why it is all fuzzy, when I get my hands on a scanner I’ll upload more detailed images. I don’t actually have the negatives, just some images on photo paper and a few slides.

This post was also inspired by my coworker Dan Garfield who found a picture of an x-ray on Digg’s home page entitle "Exploded hand: Hand + Firecracker = Amazing X-RAY [pic]". Dan thought it looked exactly like my hand. But the x-ray was taken in 1997 while my accident happened in 1992.

Any way the bloody image might be what the guy in the x-ray’s hand might have looked like.

X-ray Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/roentgenator/1435208683/

Blog post about x-ray: http://streetanatomy.com/blog/?p=201

Firefox tabs are great. They are convenient and keep me organized. I can open several links from one website in separate tabs. I can save all of the tabs at once in the bookmarks and open them at once. Firefox was the first browser to use tabs. How ingenious is that?

The first browser plug-ins that allowed modification by the end user were offered by Firefox. However, Mozilla is not completely open source.

A big pull for me is the fact that Google browser sync works with Mozilla Firefox but not internet explorer. Google browser sync is amazing. This tool saves web history automatically… and much, much more.

Description: Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.    http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/

Security of Google Browser sync….”Google Browser Sync will use your PIN to encrypt your saved passwords and persistent cookies. Your PIN is only stored locally on the computers where you install Google Browser Sync so other computers will not be able to decrypt your data unless they can guess your PIN. For added security, use a longer PIN that includes both numbers and letters. You can choose which browser settings you’d like to encrypt but passwords and cookies must be encrypted if you choose to synchronize them.” http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/

Internet Explorer

Internet explorer has followed Firefox’s lead and is now somewhat modifiable. Explorer is not as modifiable as Firefox nor does it have the development community behind it as Firefox does. You could probably find three to four times as many plug-ins, themes, and extensions for Firefox than you could for IE7. I guess Microsoft would need to make their code more open in order for a larger developer community to exist. Firefox’s larger community may be mainly due to it being the 1^st “next generation” browser allow for the user to modify it so extensively.

I guess Microsoft is al little more hesitant to share decades of work with the whole world. I can respect that. I mean crap wasn’t it IE that dominated the browser landscape against Netscape’s browser. Why? Because it was free! Um… good thing Google came along and woke these guys up again. Microsoft has been doing a lot more things now for free, including virtual PC.

IE 7 now also has tabs. As you can see in the chart below, my blog gets more Firefox traffic than Internet Explorer. Users go to more pages on average, have a lower bounce rate, and spend much more time on my blog. Internet Explorer does make up for it in new user traffic. This makes me wonder if my friends are primarily Firefox users. Firefox’s stats are clearly superior to Explorer’s, maybe the stats are skewed because I use Firefox and Google doesn’t know me so well.

This data is taken from Google Analytics and is from the dates in which it has been in the code on my website. I had originally posted a larger table here but my theme did not allow all the data to be seen. So I then decided to use Google Docs and well that was unpleasant because I am so use to MS Office 2007 that I just had to use the awesome graphs and charts. However, the funny thing is that the images best viewed in Internet Explorer for some reason, so even though I personally prefer Firefox you want to use IE7 to see my awesome graphs and pie charts. Firefox vs. IE user data table and pie charts are found by clicking <<<that link back there.

Why do I like this sitemap well, it is dynamic for one thing. Second it was easy to use. Third it has tons of options or features that lead to real benefits. I did however have trouble figuring out how to actually implement the sitemap on the blog. The programmer actually never tells you that you need to create a page then add this small code to that static page. He simply says add this code to your page. Which you know was a little confusing but not entirely. I got it to work didn’t I!

So thanks DagonDesign! I’ll be recommending this plug-in to my SEO clients at OrangeSoda.com shortly.