Of course, if you’re a savvy Internet user, you’re already amongst the 44-some million users of FireFox. Pop-up blocking and tabs are so last year. There’s a world of very useful Extensions that make browsing that much nicer.
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Did I Forget To Mention?
So today I wake up at the crack of dawn to the sweet mellifluous ballad of 5 huge Mac trucks under my open window whose drivers get no greater satisfaction from life than slamming their cargo doors up and down, racing around the loading dock in reverse (“BEEP, BEEP, BEEP!”) and establishing the alpha male through engine revving. Only the most X-Treme men of the world man these rigs, reminding the hapless bleary-eyed college students quietly dozing on the floors above of their insignificance in the most awesome quest of foodstuffs delivery.
Squinting into the bright light and fumbling the window closed, I wake up enough only to realize that I won’t fall asleep again this morning.
9:20 AM. Damn, the air got stuffy in here. Slowly I realize I have a written German test in 40 minutes. Sweet! I do reasonably well on it, nice given the lousy morning. Then there’s a quite challenging OS Scripting Midterm at noon whose ass receieves a fair amount of kicking. But this day has more fun in store for me, so I get to wrap things up all nice and shiny with a quite difficult Data Analysis quiz who kicked my ass. Phew, its over. I get back to floor, only to realize that I just missed the Social Computing meeting I’ve been reminding myself to go to for a few weeks now. I didn’t get tax forms I’ve been expecting in the mail so the Feds will be after me come Friday.
Did I forget to mention Monday is the worst day of the week?
Ah well. I made up for it a little bit by browsing around for CSS hacks. See them in action at the spicy examples!
Tomorrow should be better; I’m getting tests back instead.
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Happy Birthday To Me
As of today I’ve knocked off the second decade of my life. As usual, things don’t feel any different, even though I’m officially no longer a teenager. I still can’t drink in this country, but everywhere else I was already quite legal.
I can remember back when I was 10, everyone at St. Ann’s (my K-5 scholastic experience) invited everyone else to their birthday party by default. Xavier’s party was all about Mortal Kombat II on Sega CD, Graham Johnson’s had X-Men on regular Sega Genesis, and Mike Miller’s party was some Chuck E. Cheese’s-like place…with videogames too. I totally took it for granted back then that these kinds of group parties wouldn’t happen later.
So I decided to have some birthday resolutions since I didn’t do any for New Years and having a great party with my friends to drink and enjoy. I’m going to do something cool with web design. WordPress was the first foray, but XmlHttpRequest goodness through JavaScript is coming along with a full fledged site redesign…watch this space.
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upgraded to wordpress 1.5
so i just finished setting up wordpress 1.5 (the mysql/php-based software running this blog).
the wordpress team impresses again with really easy upgrading – they had an easy to use upgrade script that took care of the majority of the configuration details.
so now things are looking pretty hot with a new default site design and a lot of new features…i don’t know if this is new with 1.5 but apparently you can setup an email account, and when you send it mail wordpress will retrieve the message post it automatically. cool.
i just ran across a really interesting joel spolsky article .
its a pretty good overview of basic economics…and it doesn’t get boring in the least. spolsky’s articles have this way of reading like they’re very down-to-earth, plus he’s a smart guy. props to him.