Seems like all the hype leading up to today’s Firefox 3 Download Day would have made the folks at Mozilla plan for it a little better.  But no - it looks like it was screwed up from the beginning.

For starters, they didn’t release the new version download until 10:00 AM, PDT - so people who had been passing along the news, joining the Facebook group, and reading blogs about the arrival of FireFox 3 were confused when they couldn’t figure out how the heck to download it!

If that wasn’t bad enough, now that it has finally passed 10 AM in California, Mozilla’s servers are unprepared to handle the onslaught of downloads.  Mozilla.com has been slow or unresponsive for the past 45 minutes. When you finally can get into the site, it still shows FireFox 2 prominently at the top of the page, with 3 hidden underneath as only a “sneak peek.”

This is something that we would have expected from Microsoft, certainly not FireFox.

Stacey Fearnall, a 36-year-old waitress at Nathaniel’s Restaurant in Owen Sound, Ontario thought she was doing a good thing by participating in a Cops for Cancer fundraiser. She raised more than $2,700 for the charity by shaving her head bald.

However, the management at Nathaniel’s thought differently, and fired her on the spot when she showed up to work with her shaved head.

The mother of two was told by her manager to leave after she refused don a wig, and according to her husband, was in tears when she returned home from the restaurant.

Nathaniels owner and head chef Dan Hilliard has tried to defend his decision with local media by saying that the restaurant has certain standards to uphold.

While the restaurant’s owners said they told Fearnall they wouldn’t be pleased if she participated in the fundraiser, they did not come right out and tell her she’d be sacked if she shaved her hair.

Fearnall chose to participate because her father died of cancer five years ago, and a cousin and close friend of hers are currently battling the disease.

According to the Canadian Cancer Society, nothing like this has ever happened with past fundraisers.

Should she be allowed to keep her job? Let the management at Nathaniel’s Restaurant know!

Phone them: (519) 371-3440
Write a negative review: Nathaniel’s Restaurant

A Woodland, California high school senior with cancer is being denied the honor of walking with her class at graduation because she has one class left to catch up over the summer.

18-year-old Leanna Elizalde has had two cancer surgeries since December, and endured weeks of radiation therapy that left her behind in her studies. She worked hard and was able to catch up in all her classes except for English, which she plans to finish at summer school.

Leanna’s mother Lupe Ramirez attempted to persuade the school to allow Leanna to walk in the graduation ceremony with her fellow students, as she plans to finish her class over the summer. Despite talking with the vice principal, the principal, and school district officials, she has been rebuffed at every turn.

Woodland High School administrators have refused to comment to any press regarding this incident.

Leanna’s doctor at the University of California - Davis, Robert Canter, has even gone so far as to write a letter to Woodland High School principal Evelia Genera hoping to encourage the school to reconsider their decision, saying that refusing to allow her to graduate with her class would be perceived as a punitive action toward his pediatric cancer patient.

Whatever the outcome for participating in the ceremony, Leanna plans to make up her unfinished English class work during summer school. She already has her cap and gown, and has hopes that Woodland High School will reconsider their decision before Pomp and Circumstance starts playing this Saturday morning.

What do you think - should Leanna be allowed to march with her class, provided she finish her studies over the summer? Let the Principal and administration at Woodland High School know!

Woodland High telephone: (530)-662-4678
E-mail the principal: Evelia Genera - egenera@wjusd.org
Call the school district office: (530) 662-0201
- ask for the superintendent, Jacki Cottingim

A Florida daily newspaper, Sun-Sentinel, ran a story today about a man accused of sexually assaulting two dogs. When you read the story on their website, their choice of “Get Local” related content on the page is a little odd…

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Canadian doughnut and coffee chain Tim Hortons fired a single mother when she gave a free doughnut hole (known at the chain as TimBits) to the child of a frequent customer.

27-year-old single mother Nicole Lilliman of Ontario told the Canadian Press that TimBits are frequently handed out free to dogs or young children. However, three managers approached Lilliman after her shift on Wednesday, saying that she had been caught on the store’s video surveillance system giving free food to a child.

At first, Lilliman believed she was being given a warning, not being fired for theft. She had worked at the store for three years.

After a media firestorm of complaints against the chain, Tim Hortons responded with the following statement:

Unfortunately the action of the manager of this location was not appropriate, nor grounds for dismissal. With an apology from management, Ms. Lilliman has been rehired by the franchisee.

Lilliman has decided to return to work, however at a different location than where she was originally employed.