Still marveling at the pictures I can take with the Rebel. Clicky the picture to see more bugs on flowers.
Looks like Firefox 3 was the motivation I needed to switch entirely to Safari. The thing that pushed me over the edge was the "open all in tabs" feature.
I use the "open all in tabs" feature to reset my workspace. I make a bookmarks folder, and put in there my 9 or 10 sites that I use most frequently, or perhaps a folder of all the work-related websites. I then click on that folder, and "open all in tabs" to get my workspace where it needs to be to work on it. I do this dozens of times per day.
In Firefox 3, instead of resetting the workspace - that is, closing existing tabs and opening the new ones instead, it opens the new ones in addition to what's already open, giving me a growing number of tabs, rather than my desired workspace.
In Safari, not only does it open just the ones I want, rather than adding to the existing, but it's got this cool single-click feature, where I can mark the folder as a one-click workspace, and it just does what I want on one click.
So, this morning I imported all my Firefox bookmarks into Safari, and set Safari as my default browser. What with the theme change in Firefox, it seemed like a good time to do that - the new Firefox theme is no more strange than switching to Safari.
Strangely, the new Firefox didn't noticeably improve anything, or provide any shiny new functionality (at least that I noticed), and broke a feature that I rely on all day, and didn't address any of the things that make Firefox so annoying to me (bookmark management being one area where Safari is worlds better than FF). So I really would have been better off just sticking with the old version. So strange.
The last two movies that have come from our Blockbuster account have conclusively proved that we would be better off ignoring the well-meaning movie recommendations of our friends.
The first of the two was "Lady In The Water", which was dreadful, inexplicable, and tedious. But then, last night, we saw "Sideways", which was a trainwreck almost from the first. We eventually turned it off when it degenerated into pornography. The conversations about wine were interesting, but incongruous in a story that was almost entirely about fornication and adultery.
So, we've gone through our Blockbuster list again, and dropped all the movies from it that folks have recommended, that we haven't ourselves seen previews. There's only so much time in life, and it's a shame to waste it watching trash.
Yesterday I switched email for my primary domain over to GMail. I have a dozen email addresses and a few distribution lists, and I moved about a half million email messages over to my GMail folders.
It's probably too early to sing its praises, since it's only been 12 hours, but ...
This morning, it was eerily quiet in my inbox. No strident calls to buy a genuine fake Roles, or increase the size and strength of various body parts. No encouragement to get my website to the top of the search results, or make a million dollars by helping out a long-lost relative in Uzbekistan.
It was rather like walking down the main street in a big city, but not being jostled by grubby passers-by, and not hearing the sound of cars, gunshots, hawkers, screaming children, barking dogs, or howling sirens, but being able to hear the polite, soft-spoken conversation of the well-dressed gentleman walking beside you.
I looked over in the Spam folder, and all the noise was there, where it should be, but as far as I could tell, none of the polite conversation had made it over there by mistake.
I think I'm going to like it here.
So, in case I haven't mentioned it in a while, my wife is incredibly cool.
