Paul P. wrote:

> Hi Rick, so true about the Forum being slow -do you think
> that's a function of your host, or is it time again to archive
> posts?

It entirely due to the amount of traffic my webserver is getting vs. the small bandwidth it has to send the replies out.

> On a related note, I switched to the Firefox browser.
> Although not quite as fast at rendering pages as Internet
> Explorer, Firefox really cut back on pop ups, spam, and
> spyware. I stilll continue to run Ad-Aware, Spyblaster,
> Stinger, CW Shredder, Spybot and my anti-virus software
> periodically. Too many of my friends don't even have virus
> protection- and of course they end up spending tremendous
> amounts of time reinstalling operating systems that got
> thrashed.

If you are going to run windows, not using IE is good. I've heard some very positive reports about Firefox and my logs show that a lot of people have switched to it.

> Weatherman here says Tuesday will be the last rain of the
> winter, as the jet stream finally moves north. We'll see -I bet
> Deep Creek is really getting hammered...

I drove around yesterday and I can definately tell you that Deep Creek isn't the only place getting hammered. In San Gabriel Canyon water is flowing over the spillway of the lower dam and the upper dam may do it soon.