but I digress…
So, just after I install the new Safari and start using it, FireFox 3.5 comes out. Poor Safari, can’t catch a break. I like my Grease Monkey scripts and LeechBlock more than my custom search bar, I guess. Oh well.
PS: I’m really going to start to try to blog more regularly. That way, when I have a kid, it won’t be all, “Oh, he’s just blogging because he’s got a kid.”
Posted in Nerdy.
So, I was incited ? No, that’s not it. Encouraged? Mmm, no. Inspired? Close, but not that excited about it. Anyway, I decided because of a “friend’s” Tweet. Apparently, the public release of Safari 4 can handle WordPress in a way that the beta couldn’t, so that’s a plus. Besides, I really liked the search engine, like being able to tweak it so I can search Theopedia.com from the search bar. Cool.
Hmm, better add a photo.
, you know, just to test functionality. Anyway, I guess I ‘m giving Safari 4 another chance.
Which brings up another question. Does Ken Horton really blog? He posts notes on Facegroup regularly and calls it a blog. It is a log and it’s web based. Is that good enough? Or is a “blog” on Facegroup somehow cheapened by it’s location? Myspace pages certainly aren’t blogs or webpages, are they? At least, no one takes those seriously, do they?
Oh well. Tyler will have something to say.
Oh! And I de-friended everyone on Facegroup a couple weeks ago! Not because I don’t love you all, but just for something to do. Starting fresh, I’ve got almost 40 facefriends. And I’m thinking of trimming it down again. One other thing. Richard is sort of on the Wendy Mesley Wikipedia article.
Posted in Nerdy.
On Friday night our youth group at First Baptist had an end of year wrap-up bonfire. We had scrounged a few palates from the construction of the new high school near our house and James pulled a discarded Christmas Tree from the side of the road. Note to self, next year, don’t send your Christmas Tree to the chipper… save it and burn it in a bonfire!
If you’d like to see more of my videos you can check them out at Vimeo (doesn’t hassle me about the background tunes,) or at YouTube.
So, you may notice a new category here on the blog. Just invented it for today’s post; “grumpy.” And it’s not that I’m grumpy about what I have to say. In fact it’s just ridiculous, but, grumpy fits in better with the other categories. Today’s tale of grumpy ridiculousness starts at Tim Hortons (name not changed to protect the guilty…)
Fill a paper cup, dump it in the mug, throw it away.
So, Jenn’s pretty good about bringing in her reusable mug when I take her to Tim Hortons in the morning. Now, just for the record, I don’t take her there often, just once or sometimes twice a week. Many weeks we don’t go at all. But when she goes, she brings the nice ceramic and stanless-steel mug I got her for Christmas from Caribou Coffee.
Well, today, when she went in to get her decaf, the person at the Tims started to pour it in a paper take-away cup. Jenn protested, because the person already had Jenn’s reusable mug. “Why are you pouring my coffee into a paper cup, I’ve brought my own mug?”
Would you believe the reason given was they have to because it’s not sanitary to pour directly into the reusable mug? So they throw away a paper cup so Jenn can use a reusable mug! Isn’t that incredible? Incredibly redonkulous.
Posted in Grumpy.
What I look like on a good day.
What Steve looks like on a good day.
Did you know that I look like that guy? You know, that guy. That guy from the Barenaked Ladies, Steven Page? Yeah, I’ve heard lots of people tell me I look like him. But you know who I’m getting more of these days? That guy from American Idol. I don’t know his name. But I was looking for glasses the other day and the helpful person there told me that I had to get a pair of these particular glasses, because they’re the same ones that this Idol guy wears and I look just like him. I don’t know who he is though. I think I liked the glasses, but I’m probably going to get a pair of brown Nike sunglasses instead. That’s what I was in the market for anyway.
Posted in Fouldsy.
Well, last week I made the switch back to Firefox from Safari. You can’t say that I didn’t give Safari a good chance, but either I’m to set in my ways, or it just came up short for me. I really did like the Top Sites concept, but it didn’t work as well as I wanted it to. Instead of having a bunch of sites I wanted, I had a bunch of entry pages to sites I go to lots. It was to finicky to wait until the actuall inside page showed up and then make it permanent.
I also didn’t notice the speed increase that I was promised. Honest, it seemed slower. I saw the same benchmarks you did, but I don’t think I ever said, “This is fast.”
Finally, the javascript/flash support (let’s just call it the 2.0-ish support) wasn’t there. I realized that this was a beta version, but please? No hotmail for Jenn? No adding links in my Wordpress blog posts? In fact, you can probably blame my lack of posting the past couple weeks directly on Safari. 
So, I’m back with Firefox. What are you browsing with these days? Did you try Safari? Did it disapoint?
Posted in Nerdy.
Just because I want to use mu links category every once in a while, here are three cool videos I’ve watched recently.
Posted in Linky.
First off, just so you know, I like the CBC. It’s my radio station of choice. Also, I think it’s outright crappy that they are going to be downsizing to the tune of six (of what twelve?) jobs here in Thunder Bay.
That said, I just realized that there was a time, not too long ago, where I would gladly listen through The Current so I could listen to Sounds Like Canada (with Bill Richardson!) Well, not only can I not do that anymore. I don’t even bother with The Current. And as much as I’m not a big fan of Dijon Gomeshi (it’s easier to call him Dijon that try to spell his name–I hope he doesn’t mind, but if he asks, I’ll correct it,) I’m also not a big anti-Dijon guy either, and I think I’d listen to Q more often if I didn’t have to sit through The Current.
Great Northwest? Sign me up! Voyage North, meh. Heh, I should post a new intro for Voyage North here, “Hi, I’m Darren Foulds from Thunder Bay, and you’re listening to Voyage North… but I’m not.”
Posted in Media-y.
So, I made this category, “linky” so that every once in a while I could just post up a quick link to something, or maybe have a list of links that I’ve come across lately, and wanted to post. Anyway, I haven’t used it yet, and don’t really know how I want to use it, but here’s one for today…
PS: If you use this link, I get something free.
Posted in Linky.
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So, as I was digging the car out this morning before work, I thought to myself, “Today will probably be the last day of the season to sport a good snowhawk. You know what a snowhawk is, don’t you? They occur on days where there’s a substantial snowfall, and the driver of a car decides that instead of brushing it off the roof, he’ll just drive around and it’ll blow off. It never blows off, at least not completely, and the car ends up having a snow-mohawk, or snowhawk all day. Did you sport a snowhawk today?
Posted in Creativity.
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