Archive for June, 2008
Welcome to 2007, Dylan…
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under Uncategorized
So, I got off of my lazy ass and installed Windows Live Writer.
I’ve heard from so many people that I should try it out for blogging, but as I mentioned above… I’m really lazy.
First impression: it’s pretty nice, I guess.
Second impression: I essentially stopped using almost all software made by microsoft about a year ago, because I generally couldn’t afford it, and there were equivalent or better OSS or free alternatives.
as it turns out, I think I prefer non-msft style. It just took me 10 minutes to figure out how to get to the edit source… The layout is just not conducive to how I work anymore. Weird. I was a msft-only guy for close to a decade… and I lost it all in less than a year.
And I’m all right with that.
Firefox 3: thoughts and impressions.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under general, nerdly
Well, I did my part.
I just installed the latest Firefox as part of download day.
My first thoughts (I haven’t looked at ff3 since and early beta…)
- I miss my bookmarks that all got deleted (meh.)
- I miss(ed) firebug. (getfirebug.com v.1.1 v.1.2 works just fine)
- I miss(ed) firecookie (http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firecookie/firecookie-05-beta/ v0.5 seems to work fine)
- Firefox no longer crashes fatally every time I close it. (seriously, every single time I closed it)
- Startup and shutdown are INCREDIBLY fast compared to ff2.
- I miss my themes… and mozilla.org is a little swamped right now, so I can’t get a new one. However, the default theme is really not bad at all.. I just miss my old one.
We’ll see how well it deals with being left running…
hopefully I’ll never see memory usage of 1,268,300k ever again.
I’ll update with more as I remember things.
Update:
I upgraded to ff3 on my macbook.
- Colorzilla needed to be upgraded ColorZilla v2.
- Bookmarks transferred just fine…