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Mysteries of life

Why is it that whenever we have a rent inspection, I’m invariably vacuuming at 3AM? It’s bizarre, looking through the house when it’s all clean and shit — it’s a really nice place. Pity it can’t stay that way for more than five minutes.


Firebird redux

I’ve been glancing through some of my older posts and stumbled upon my first impressions of Mozilla Firebird. Those observations still hold true, no doubt, but the Windows version of Firebird is another matter altogether.

When it comes to Windows, Firebird is now most definitely the best browser available. It renders quickly, looks great, and has a host of features that the average Windows ‘net user only dreams of. Just today I watched my roommate battle recurring popup ads, thinking “hmm… I bet if I changed the default browser to Firebird he wouldn’t even notice.” And I think I just might. Tabbed browsing would be, for the times I’m on the PC, a lifesaver. Once you get used to tabs, right–clicking and selecting ‘Open in new window’ seems like a chore — never mind dragging your ass down to the taskbar to switch windows.

All in all, with Internet Explorer on its ass, Firebird really is the web designer’s only hope. If you have relatives you care for, or even just yourself, switch to Firebird today. Please, think of the web designers.


Really simple site summary syndication

As if the title weren’t adequate forewarning, I’ve been tweaking the RSS feed templates (and updating Movable Type to version 2.64 while I’m at it) and adding an RSS 2.0 feed to the site; complementing the existing RSS 1.0 thingamajigger.

Sooner or later someone will explain to me why it’s a good idea to have two “parallel standards” (RSS 2.0 and RSS 1.0) filling approximately the same role, based on different web technologies (XML and RDF, respectively). In the mean time it’s no skin off my nose to support them both — though I have chosen to make a rather rude change to my 1.0 feed; there are to be no more excerpted entries. All feeds now send full entries, I apologize to those of you that enjoy reading a twenty word excerpt only… but you’ll live. Fuckin‘ weirdos.