Hello, friends. Thanks for visiting today.

The weather yesterday morning was some premium bravo sierra. Icy roads caused a big pile-up on I-79 southbound south of Edinboro. Ice and I are not on good terms right now, thanks to it ripping off my gutters. I’m still upset about that.

Being your resident web experts, we highly recommend you use browsers that aren’t named Internet Explorer. This includes Firefox, Safari, Opera, Camino, or Google’s Chrome. Regular EB commenter and local blogger Nick has a great guide about how to get YourErie.com to work in Chrome. If YourErie was coded by someone who knew something about developing web pages, it would just work, but standards and good code be darned.

Clutch quote from the post:

Now the biggest issue with this solution is that you’ll loose the top navigation on the site, but let’s be honest…if you’re like me you probably just use the site to check the weather and get your real news from a site like ErieBlogs.com right?

Very true, sir. A few months ago, I wrote a blog post about how a few simple changes could be applied to YourErie.com to improve it. If you know someone over there or at NexStar, send it to them. These are simple, easy fixes that would go a long way towards improving the user experience.

I’ll remind you that this is the only media-ish site in town that has a nice, friendly mobile version. Have you tried to get the big site in town to load on your iPhone or Blackberry? Good luck, brah.

Erie County Council will not support wage restorations that Barry Grossman was looking for. They have not yet decided it they will create a new position that Grossman also asked for. How are these actions by the executive bringing or saving jobs in our area? That should be one of the key questions that Council asks everytime someone brings any resolution, plan, program or proposal to them. Will it increase revenue coming in? No? Then the answer is no.

Gannon recently welcomed 10 new students from the U.S. Virgin Islands, all of whom entered the University in the fall 2009 semester. We can safely assume they = stunned once they got a nice blast of Erie winter weather.

Erie-ite and Penn State University English and creative writing professor Eugene Cross has won the annual $5,000 Dzanc Prize from Dzanc Books. Congrats!

Sports

The WPIAL conference, of which McDowell is now a member, has released its football groupings for the next two seasons. The Northern Seven will include Butler, Erie McDowell, North Allegheny, North Hills, Pine-Richland, Seneca Valley, Shaler. Some serious teams there. Good luck, Trojans.

The NBA Development League Erie BayHawks will team with the Erie office of Pennsylvania Careerlink to offer a healthcare job fair during the BayHawks game, January 27 at the Tullio Arena.

The Mercyhurst College women’s hockey team claimed 190 points and all 19 first-place votes to top the USA Today / USA Hockey Magazine Women’s Division I Poll for the 14th-straight week.

The Gannon women’s basketball team remained fourth for the third consecutive week in the latest USA Today ESPN Division II Top 25 Coaches Poll released Tuesday afternoon. It continues to represent the program’s highest national ranking ever and is one shy of the school record regardless of gender.

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