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posted by tom / March 27, 2006 / 
- goFOIAurself.com. Via Cyrus.
- This looks pretty cool, and at prices ranging from $35-100 per wheel (depending on quality of the effect), seems to offer an excellent return on girlfriend-embarrassment per dollar. Sadly, I'm not man enough for this project: the shame and theft risk means I'd only undertake it if I put it on a dedicated, removable front wheel, which seems likely to (at least) double the cost of the project. Not out of the question, but I'd have to have something really important/stupid to say via magic bike wheel in order to spend that kind of money. Also on the neat-but-impractical-for-my-self-conscious-renter-self LED project tip: this.
- The latest in my ongoing procession of disappointing SMS cables has arrived. Spirits are high, but a part of me knows it's just going to break my heart all over again.
- Firefox crashed while I was composing this entry. It no longer surprises me when this happens, not even a little. I've gotten over most of the annoyances related to my switch to OS X, but the utter suckiness of Mac Firefox continues to disappoint. Safari seems stable, but its tabbed browsing is non-obvious (or not available by default?) and the stupidity of enforced Aqua-style HTML form elements cannot be overstated (why do you think you're better than CSS, you goddamn hippies?). Anyway, a GreaseMonkey script to do Gmail-style Movable Type draft-saving would take approximately five minutes to write, and probably solve much of this losing-blog-posts problem. I'll try to hammer that out tonight, if I can find the time. I've got a lead on fixing my Gmail Colorizer script to work properly, too — might be a GreaseMonkey-heavy evening.
So many projects! This is the catch-22 of Catherine's visits: they make me happy, which puts me in a hyper-productive/inspired state, which then can't be satisfied because I'm spending all of my time being happy with my girlfriend. The trick, I think, is to get the projects started, then grind them out when ennui sets back in. Let's call it the long-distance relationship software development methodology.
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Have you checked out Camino? It's the Gecko engine wrapped in Aqua, and it's just hit 1.0.
As for Safari, no, tabs aren't on by default -- check out the preferences; there is a Tabs tab in there.
as someone who once was employed to author FOIA annual reports for certain government entities, I'd like to thank the kind folks at UnReqNar for sending me into intense flashbacks not unsimilar to the kind war vets have. so. thanks a buttload for that first link.
the main reason I stick with FF is the extensions. there are a number that I use that are must-haves for me (GreaseMonkey in particular). I figure it'll stabilize eventually... right? Right.
And G: always happy to help.
My issues with FF disappeared once I moved to Tiger (and FF 1.5a). I don't know if that counts as stabilizing "eventually", but it can indeed be stabilized.
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