Day: 2 October 2004

My New Favorite Browser

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I have mentioned before I am no longer a fan of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Maybe it is the features it doesn’t have. Maybe it is the fact that MSFT decided to stop making a Mac version of the browser. Maybe it is just because it is a Microsoft product that someone has created a comparable product. I have been known to use alternate products to a Microsoft product if it is (to me) as good, just to say Microsoft I love your stuff but you should not be making everything under the sun.

I have been a fan of IE since version 4.0, but I think it’s time has past. Over the past 2 years I have seen myself using Mozilla almost exclusively. Some products and websites require IE so I still use it, but only when I have to.

The people who make Mozilla have come out with a new browser. it is their next generation browser. What they did was separate the browser from the mail / newsgroup client and created 2 products. The web browser is Firefox. It hasn’t exactly gone gold. Gold in software terms is the final version of a product. They have a new version out, and called it 1.0PR (preview release). So it is kind of / sort of the final version but not really. For me it was enough to download on my Mac. I have been using it since a day or so after it came out. So far I like it as much or better than Mozilla. I only installed it on my main Windows PC tonight. It is very similar to Mozilla, but I have noticed it loads allot faster. I think I may have found my new favorite browser.

I will put aside my disapproval of the naming convention of the browser since I like it so much. If it is not the final version then don’t call it version 1.0. Just keep it in beta. I am not a fan of software company’s using wide spread releases of software as their final beta’s or “preview releases”. I guess I am just one of the million’s of guinea pigs for Mozilla.org. At least the software works, and it is not painful being in a lab experiment…

Star Wars DVD

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I just finished watching the Empire Strikes Back on DVD. It was as good as I remember it. The one issue I had was that I only got my two front speakers to work with the DVD. I am about to try a different DVD to make sure nothing is wrong with my sound system, but I think all is well. The question is why am I not getting the awesome digital surround sound that I should be?

Weird. After pressing a few random buttons on my stereo system I am now getting all speakers working with Return of the Jedi. Oh well. I may just have to re-watch Empire to get the better sounds!

Cleaning House

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I went to Bed Bath & Beyond with Jayson and Gretchen last night before dinner. I was planning on getting some towels for my bathroom and maybe check out the bedroom sets. I left the store 30 minutes later with new towel’s, and a nice comforter set to replace my aging Ralph Lauren Denim set I currently have. In return BB&B decided to keep a whole bunch of my money. I wasn’t planning on spending as much as I did, but I saw something I liked and decided to just buy it. It wasn’t what I set out to get. I was looking for another set of denim sheets and comforter. Funny how things don’t end up how you planned them, but you end up being happy anyway?

It is now the 2nd of the month and I will be watching my budget the rest of the month. But I will be sleeping nice and comfy in my new blanket.

On a side note, Ralph Lauren why did you stop making plan denim comforters? They rocked.

After shopping we went to eat at a decent Italian restaurant. Then we watched Dead Like Me on showtime. I like that show and it would be the only reason I get showtime. But I won’t spend the money showtime for just 1 show. So every so often I get to see it at Jay and Gretchen’s. Then I went home. With my traveling and the spending, it was a long day.

Finally A Hair Cut Guy Replacement

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I have been looking for a halfway decent person to cut my hair since I moved. I can’t even travel back to my old neighborhood and use my old guy, I tried. he is not working there for a while. I have tried 2 different places. One by work that has like 30 people working there, and a smaller place by my apartment. I went to the local place by my apartment again today. I am lazy, the last guy who cut my hair there wasn’t very good, but I figured I would try someone new. Thankfully I went. I got an older “old school” hair cutter. He actually did exactly what I wanted and used the nice straight razor to clean up the back of my head. I am very happy. The little things make me happy. I nice haircut feels good, and looks good for a few weeks.

I need to live up the good haircuts while I can. Sooner or later (hopefully later) the hair will fall out, and then I will be really upset:)