Finally a good Mac OS X Web Browser

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I have been searching for a good web browser for the Mac OS. Internet Explorer is so slow and it sucks. I tried Netscape 7 for OSX, and I didn’t like it. I tried Mozilla for the Mac, and I have issues with it’s GUI, and other usability issues. On the flip side I really like the Mozilla web browser for Windows. That is now my default browser for my windows machines. I have been using the new Apple Safari. It is ok. It has been the best of the pack, but that is not saying much. Some web sites don’t render well on it. Even though it uses the mozilla engine.

I think I finally found a winner browser. I am using a beta of the Mozilla project’s Camino Browser. It is built to utilize the OSX Coca engine and other OSX specific functions. It has some new features that make it work for me in OS X, while mozilla 1.3 just didn’t. It is still in beta but I have been using it all day and it seems stable enough. They (mozilla.org) claim it is good for day to day use even in beta.

Small Powerbook defect!

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I figured out while I was on my vacation that my powerbook has a defect. The headphone jack only play’s stuff out of the left headset. I bought a new pair of earphones thinking it was the pair I had. Wasn’t that. Turns out when I got home I couldn’t hear anything out of the right speaker I plug the powerbook into either when I am home. I am debating if I want to send the thing back again for a week of repair for this problem. They take forever to fix these things. I could just get a usb speaker set, but if I ever sell the mac (and you know I will) I may have a problem.

Done with vacation, now back to “normal” life

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You don’t fully realize all the minor stuff you need to do around the house, and just stuff needed to be done to lead a normal life until you put everything on hold and go away. Today was the day of getting back up to speed with stuff. I got my mail that was crammed into my mailbox. I paid some bills that thankfully weren’t overdue. I am in the process of unpacking. I am not one of those people who unpacks right after a trip. The bag may linger for a week or so before I clear it out. After being on the road and having to do the quick pack and unpack routine, I am in no hurry to unpack now.

I uploaded the pictures from the vacation to my website. The photo’s were broken into two sections. I have my photo’s and the photo’s of morgan. 90%+ are of morgan, because lets face it she is cuter than anyone else I was traveling with, so I took photos!

I also sifted through email I got while I was away. That took a while. Has anyone ever realized that 90% of all emails you get are useless? that is how I feel after going through a weeks worth of mail.

I figured out while I was on my vacation that my powerbook has a defect. The headphone jack only play’s stuff out of the left headset. I bought a new pair of earphones thinking it was the pair I had. Wasn’t that. Turns out when I got home I couldn’t hear anything out of the right speaker I plug the powerbook into either when I am home. I am debating if I want to send the thing back again for a week of repair for this problem. They take forever to fix these things. I could just get a USB speaker set, but if I ever sell the mac (and you know I will) I may have a problem.

Vacation is over:(

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As I said in the last blog, the vacation is over. I am home now and I just uploaded all the blog entries from this week. I actually wrote all of them on the plane. that is why some are so short. I didn’t take any time during the week to write. It was great!!! I proved I can go computer free for a bit.

At first I was going to post date all the blog posts to their corresponding days they represent, but I decided against it. I am just going to leave them. I uploaded them in order.

Turns out the airport (JFK) actually sucked tonight. We sat on the tarmac for almost an hour because our gate was not empty. We were early and then the flight before us was late. Then I got stuck on a huge line at immigration. I was the first person from my plane to the line (thanks for being in biz class and only having a book bag to carry on) but we got behind a flight from the UK. Baggage claim took the usually amount of time, forever. After that I breezed through customs, or was immigration first then custom’s, who knows. All I remember is they check the passport twice, but stamp it once. I got a cab quick. that is no small feat at JFK at night.

It is 2am sunday and I am not tired at all. I was tired all vacation due to the heat and now that I am home and in a comfy temperature I don’t want to sleep. I hope I can get onto a normal sleep schedule for work on monday.

Speaking of work I got 187 emails and 6 voice mail’s while I was away. At least everyone but a few moron’s listened to my voice mail message and called someone else while I was out. BTW, 3 of those messages were from the same sales guy. People have to listen. As far as email, that is not allot, so I am not upset. Most of them were automated alerts that I get. Turns out the office had some problems while I was away. Keith gave me a quick run down a few hours ago. I will get more of an update tomorrow or monday from Gus & Mark.

Vacation, Day 6 Continued…

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So as I said before I didn’t do any work this whole vacation. I barely used the computer except for importing pictures off my digital camera and showing them to my family. What is weird as I sit here typing for the first time in almost a week, my hands still start hurting after a little while. I am beginning to think that my problem is how I sleep and not too much typing. I sleep with my arm under my head, and it can be a weird position. I am going to talk to my doctor about what I could do.

As I thought I brought a bunch of movies and only saw 1 on the flight down (mission impossible), and part of black hawk down last night. I need to finish watching that, but I will wait till I get home to do it.

Vacation, Day 6 Saturday

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Vacation is over for me. My family is staying till monday but I am off. It was a great restful vacation. I didn’t do a lick of work. I am glad I got the chance to rest. I had to leave early (1pm) for the airport so I didn’t get any pool time today. The airport trip and check in was uneventful. That is always good. They changed the plane so my seat got changed. I asked for another change since I got put in the back, and I didn’t like that. I asked for something closer to the front of the plane. The next thing I know I am in business class. I guess this plane had more biz class seats than the last one and they didn’t know what to do with some extra passengers. Whatever, I got bumped up. I wasn’t one to complain. I got worried when the flight attendant asked if I was originally a biz class ticket and I answered no. Turns out that because of the confusion they thought that I paid for biz class and were going to put me in first class. I think I looked respectable or something. I don’t know why she asked me and not the other people sitting around me. Well I have an idea, but I won’t write about it. I try to dress biz casual when I travel, so I can look decent and vie for an upgrade. it worked today. if it wasn’t for my big mouth telling the truth I might have had a double upgrade. I am a snob because Delta Biz elite is much nicer than American’s Biz class. Oh well. I write this while I am in the air on the way home. Just watched the in flight movie “two weeks notice”. it was ok. The steak for dinner was good though. the jack Daniel’s and coke I had was better!

I hope customs and cab hunting at JFK is ok. Then this would have been a good day. I got “randomly” screened before I got on the plane. I never understand those. They make me take my shoes off, and inspect my PDA, but don’t even look at my laptop, belt or wallet. My wallet even set off the metal detector and they didn’t look at it. I am not complaining, I just don’t understand security. I think it is just a show to make people think they are safe. I guess it is good if it calms the mass’s. I guess what they say is true “ignorance is bliss”.

Vacation Day 5, Friday

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I did nothing today. And I mean nothing. I loved every minute of it. My family went to a cave tour. Mike went for a round of golf on the expensive course. I just lied by the pool. It rocked. I got some reading in. I don’t read novels that much anymore. I was happy to get a book in. Turns out my mom freaked out about my dad’s driving while on the cave trip. My dad’s driving plus the british style driving and the getting lost I guess drove her crazy. I am glad I decided to just stay by the pool. I got a bit of color, but not much. I don’t like to burn.

We had dinner at the house. I had steaks. they were good. This is what vacation is about, going somewhere you have never been to just kick back and do anything you want, or nothing!!!

Vacation Day 4, Thursday

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Some light shopping, mainly for food and stupid stuff. We went to the beach today. it was like a 5 minute drive from the house. The house we rented had privileges at the sandy lane hotel. The hotel was awesome, and we had a cabana at the beach. The water was so nice. We hung out for a while. My dad sat in the shade with morgan while she slept. My sister, mom, and I went into the ocean, actually Caribbean see if we want to be specific.

We went out for dinner for my dad’s birthday. he turned 60 today. The restaurant was awesome. it sat right on the beach and it got clear and you could see out onto the horizon. The food was decent, nothing awesome, but I had a good time.

I thought I was getting another Migraine today before dinner, so I took another bextra. Not sure if I was being a baby about the head aches or if I was actually getting one. The heat does nasty things to my head.

Vacation Day 3, Wednesday

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Today Mike and I went and played a round of golf. I have never played and he didn’t want to go by himself. I thought it would be fun so I went. The course was empty since we went late in the day. We had to travel half way across the island for this course. The course turned out to have sucked (according to mike). We had a bad golf card so we had to go get help between the 10th & 11th greens. Mike was pissed that we didnt get anything for free out of that. I had a good time. It was my first golf outing and I did ok. I cant drive for my life but once on the fareway I did a little worse than ok. I probibly will try it again sometime. This course was expencive. It was cheap compaired to the course by the house we rented, but it was still $100 a round. With clubs the one by our house was like $160 and that was a special deal. Golf in barbados is not for the cheap!

My only problem with golf is that I can’t see the green’s from most tee’s and I also have trouble finding the ball. Thanks mike was my lookout.

Unfortunatly I was fighting a head ache the whole game. Thankfully the meds worked for the game, but I started crashing on the ride home. I made it to the house just in time to lie down and sleep from like 7pm to the next morning. I ended up taking 2 Bextra throughout the day. At least this migrane didn’t stop me from having a good day of golf.

Vacation Day 2, Tuesday

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The house is awsome. My sister out did herself on this vacation. I don’t know if she did this by luck or if she planned it, but we are in a huge house facing the ocean. it sits on a golf course in (supposedly) most exclusive part of Barbados. We even have our own maid and cook. The food is awsome too. We lounged around today. It was hot, go figure! We lied by the pool and just played it lazy. I like doing that on vacation, doing nothing.