ForecastFox Weather Extension
From ForecastFox: ForecastFox is an extension that brings international weather from The Weather Chanel® to your Firefox web browser.
I just found it today, and I have to say it’s a nice little add-on for your browser. It is indeed “lightweight” and it’s very customizable. Knowing it’s spyware-free helps a good amount too.
Future of The Ice Block
As some of you know (at least half of both of my readers), I do plan on “knocking down” The Ice Block and blog-ifying it. Basically, taking my hockey posts from here to there and writing much more. In the end, it’d let me have a place to write about general hockey topics freely, and I was never interested in promoting another site with a forum.
The only thing that has been asked repeatedly of me is: What about Newslinks? Newslinks is the most visited page on the site, understandably. Well, I haven’t quite decided yet. I’m either going to shut it down for a few weeks and try and re-build it quickly for whatever system I choose to run on TIB (right now I’m leaning towards pMachine’s ExpressionEngine), or I’m going to simply move it over to hockeyfights.com. Having it on hockeyfights.com would be easier, obviously. I would have many people willing to submit stories (yes, they do love hockey in general), and it could be very active in that regard. I will be adding commenting to Newslinks, making it a bit more interactive. However, to reach the general hockey-loving audience, it would probably be better to have Newslinks on TIB and just have it be slower for a bit. So a few things are definites: they’re not going anywhere, there will be commenting, and there will be an rss feed for them. So you’ll be able to read them easily in any feedreader, or even put them on your own site as well.
I do wish I would have made up my mind about all of this already as I’d love to have TIB up today to post lockout updates on. I’ll obviously make an announcement about the re-launch of it here, and until then I’ll keep posting hockey here as well.