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Firefox 4 beta9 GUI sucks

Saturday, January 15th, 2011

Firefox 4 beta 9 was released and I had to try it. It’s not in freebsd ports yet so I tried it under wine.. I tried it and it seems to be much, much faster than 3.6.x

The speed improvement is very nice and long over due.. but the GUI?  Why in the world would they get rid of the status bar?  I depend on that to see where a link may be leading me to.  It seems like it tries to show that information in the URL bar but that’s far to short to display anything useful with my large text.  Also some of the extensions I use make use of the status bar to display information.

It seems like they are trying to copy Chrome with their GUI and I think chrome’s GUI is terrible.  The lack of extensions that I use regularly and awful GUI are what keep me from using Chrome anyways since it seems much faster than Firefox is.  Hopefully they give us an option to have a status bar.

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Dear Christians

Friday, January 14th, 2011

Dear fundamentalist Christians, please accept others for what they are and don’t waste your time praying for me to become a believer.  I don’t judge you no matter how illogical your fairy tales are, please give me the same.

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Web Annoyance – “Disabling” Right Click

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Here’s a message to those websites who think they are disabling right clicking to prevent someone from stealing your photos.  You are not preventing anything but you are hurting usability for those of us who may want to open a link in a new tab or a new window.  I know I could just middle click but I choose to right click and use the menu.

This may be hard for you to understand but your images and page were transferred from your server to my computer.  If I really wanted to get them I could.  Please get rid of the stupid message.  That’s almost as bad as the big sites who use flash to prevent you from stealing images.

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Another annoyance

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

I’ve been noticing recently some websites want my email address.  This is nothing new but the trend seems to be a box popping up over the content I was looking for.  It dims and disables the rest of the page.  

Note to the sites that use this.  I find this intrusive and will immediately leave your site.  I realize most sites are trying to make money but don’t be so fucking intrusive with it.

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celbrities and rehab is a joke

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

So last night while waiting for Molly to get home from work I turned on the TV and started listening to the local news. I luckily tuned in just in time to hear that one celebrity got out of rehab and another celebrity went into rehab.  I hope someone will someday be able to enlighten me enough that I can understand why this is considered news or why anyone really cares.

The real issue  of this that bothers me is the fact that they treat it like it’s a game or just do it for attention when there are real people out there that rehab would help that can’t get in.  I really wish the media would give these attention whores zero attention.

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Dear Christians – Not Everything Has Is About God

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

Why is it that so many Christians feel the need to try to twist everything into something Christian?  Can they not just enjoy something without having to somehow trying to relate being Christian?

My opinion on religion in general is it’s just a silly fairytale that is used to control the masses.

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Back to the gym

Saturday, January 1st, 2011

Well today we finally made it back to the gym.  It felt great to get back in there.  I refuse to call it a new years resolution.  It’s just that we’ve been busy and I personally lost my drive when my grand mom died a few months ago.

What I am really looking forward to doing is getting back into weights.  Something I enjoyed very much in high school when they gave me that instead of a regular gym class due to my poor vision.  I wish I would have worked harder at it then.  I didn’t want to get big and was actually embarrassed to have the gym class with other disabled students rather than a regular class.  Now I realize I was lucky to have it and an awesome teacher to go with it.

Our gym is not perfect for weights but they have some machines and a few other things.  It’s only a 2 minute drive from home and once the new bridge is done being built we will walk to the gym. Now there is no shoulder on the road and I don’t plan on getting killed this year.  It’s also much better than what we have at home, which is nothing.

My goal is to be able to do pull ups.  I never could do those before no matter how hard I tried but I will do them now.

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What happened Google?

Friday, December 31st, 2010

Google, can you please give me a way to get rid of the stupid and pointless previews for half of the sites that appear as an image on the right side of the page when my mouse hovers over the link.  I find them very distracting and also a waste of bandwidth.  They are there sometimes and other times they are not.

What ever happened to having things simple.  That and the good search results are what originally got me to begin using your search engine.  The results now are not very good.  Usually the first page is just spam links and now you’re adding completely pointless features with no way to disable them.  How I wish you had some real competition.

I also don’t need to see image results and video results at the top of the page.  I can click on either image search or video search to get those.  Isn’t that the point of having them links?

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I hate Spam

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

I hate spam.  I hate the fact that I have to waste my time going through my email to look for an important message sifting through what is ninety percent spam.  Email is basically useless with such a high signal to noise ratio.

Could you imagine if your regular phone  worked like email does?  It would be constantly ringing to try to trick you into buying viagra.

Close behind that would be people trying to sell you the next new way to lose weight.  It would be all about the new medical diet or the next fat burning pill.  Then there would be the revolutionary devices that make your lose  weight while doing nothing.

If I believed in Hell I would really hope there is a special area reserved for spammers and those who sell email addresses to spammers.  Die now spammers.  The spam must work to a point or else they wouldn’t bother.  This just shows the sad state of humanity.

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Philly Sports Seem Right Now

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

So the Eagles lost.. I’ve been waiting for this.

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