Saturday, October 04, 2003
Everyone should go out and try Mozilla Firebird. It is outstanding. It seems to display most any page that IE can, and it is customizable to fit you own tastes. It is also free and open source.
One of the features that I really like is the Mouse Gestures that you can install into Firebird. I hold down my right button and drag the mouse to the left, and I go back right goes forward.
Firebird also supports tabbed browsing. If I see a link that I think I will want to look at, I can right click on it and drag it upward, and it loads on a separate page in the background. Once I have finished the page I am reading, My mouse goes up and to the left, and bingo, the next page is waiting for me.
If all that sounds too complicated, don't worry about it. It is all optional.. Here is a selling point that everyone can appriciate: No Pop-up ads! I have never seen one while using Firebird. Occasionaly I will see one (or 5) and that reminds me that I accidentally opened IE. I close IE down and go back to enjoying what I want to enjoy.
Browsers are not going to get any better if Microsoft doesn't believe there is competition in the arena. Try out Mozilla Firebird, It is cutting edge stuff that will be standard in a year or two.
One of the features that I really like is the Mouse Gestures that you can install into Firebird. I hold down my right button and drag the mouse to the left, and I go back right goes forward.
Firebird also supports tabbed browsing. If I see a link that I think I will want to look at, I can right click on it and drag it upward, and it loads on a separate page in the background. Once I have finished the page I am reading, My mouse goes up and to the left, and bingo, the next page is waiting for me.
If all that sounds too complicated, don't worry about it. It is all optional.. Here is a selling point that everyone can appriciate: No Pop-up ads! I have never seen one while using Firebird. Occasionaly I will see one (or 5) and that reminds me that I accidentally opened IE. I close IE down and go back to enjoying what I want to enjoy.
Browsers are not going to get any better if Microsoft doesn't believe there is competition in the arena. Try out Mozilla Firebird, It is cutting edge stuff that will be standard in a year or two.
Thursday, October 02, 2003
Another week down. Not a lot new. Julia learned about jokes this week. She is pretty funny... So far she knows two jokes... "Knock-knock", followed by rolling on the floor laughter and a simular joke "joke" that is just as funny.
I am kinda sick today. Had a sore throat that was pretty bad. Called in sick to work only to find out I was scheduled to be off today anyway. Apparently this is my week to work the weekend shift. Normaly we only have to work weekends once every 8 weeks or so, but apparently because of some weddings and stuff I got stuck doing it on a 5 week interval this time around. Working the weekends is nice because it is fairly slow, but it kinda puts a kink in my routine.
I am trying to find a good online note-taking service. I see a few, but I am unconvinced. I may have to write my own program and try to sell it. Seems to me that we spend way to much time organizing, and often our organizing winds up hurting as much as it helps... I often have to look in 3-5 folders to find the document that I am looking for. This is pretty silly when there are search engines out there that can index thousands of documents and retrieve the results that you are looking for in seconds.
We are studying the life of David this week in BSF. My principle for the week is "Godly decisions are made based on principle, not based on circumstances". It is always amazing to me how relevant biblical principles are to everyday life. This is certainly one of them. How often do I justify my actions based on circumstances? Seems like society as a whole justifies a lot of immoral behavior based on circumstances. We are so eager to avoid any suffering at all that we are willing to tear down the moral fabric that defines us. What we fail to see is that that moral fabric is in place to protect us, and when we rip it down, right and wrong lose thier meaning, and we will make a lot more bad decisions.
I am kinda sick today. Had a sore throat that was pretty bad. Called in sick to work only to find out I was scheduled to be off today anyway. Apparently this is my week to work the weekend shift. Normaly we only have to work weekends once every 8 weeks or so, but apparently because of some weddings and stuff I got stuck doing it on a 5 week interval this time around. Working the weekends is nice because it is fairly slow, but it kinda puts a kink in my routine.
I am trying to find a good online note-taking service. I see a few, but I am unconvinced. I may have to write my own program and try to sell it. Seems to me that we spend way to much time organizing, and often our organizing winds up hurting as much as it helps... I often have to look in 3-5 folders to find the document that I am looking for. This is pretty silly when there are search engines out there that can index thousands of documents and retrieve the results that you are looking for in seconds.
We are studying the life of David this week in BSF. My principle for the week is "Godly decisions are made based on principle, not based on circumstances". It is always amazing to me how relevant biblical principles are to everyday life. This is certainly one of them. How often do I justify my actions based on circumstances? Seems like society as a whole justifies a lot of immoral behavior based on circumstances. We are so eager to avoid any suffering at all that we are willing to tear down the moral fabric that defines us. What we fail to see is that that moral fabric is in place to protect us, and when we rip it down, right and wrong lose thier meaning, and we will make a lot more bad decisions.
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