Firefox 2.0 Up and Running!

No surprise there. I was disappointed that some of my priceless extensions weren’t ready in time for the grand opening. The beta has been out for quite a while. Most of them are quickly being updated, but one of my favorites, colortabs, still hasn’t been fixed

In the theme department, avoid MiniFox. It kills the ability to jump from theme to theme. I had to go into about:config and go to skins to change the MINIFOX entry to DEFAULT to get back the ability to change skins.

No big deal, but I think it poor form to take our configuration ability when designing a skin. That isn’t an error of omission but an overt act.

As has been said in most of the reviews I’ve read there are no startling changes but the feel of it is much smoother and there is less incompatibility with some of the more IE oriented websites.

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Words of Power on a sad Sunday

My friend Richard Power has a blog going at Words of Power.

If you want to dive into a world with a whole lotta words, all of which are full of Power, this is the place to go.

I will admit to being somewhat overwhelmed by the amount and intensity of this blog. It crosses many causally directed paths, not all in the same blind direction. The environment and the current political atmosphere seem to be the paths most trod.

My only word of caution is this is not a cheerful blog. This is not a cheerful world; so if you’re looking for a quite, calm and careless place, avoid Words of Power.

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RIP

Good bye, dear sweet man, father and joy to the world.
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Over the Shoulder

Were you ever taking a picture of one thing when something else caught your eye from the side? That is what happened with this picture. I was focusing on a tree planting for a moment, looked to my left.

There were Andy and Bob focusing on the same planting.


Their look alone will tell you how important this moment was to everyone.



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Looking Down

This is a picture of Julie looking down into a hole she and a large number of people took part in digging last week.





Into this hole was planted a dogwood to commemorate the birthday of a dear friend, John.










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Itchy soles

I am imbedded in Fire in the Mind, the detailed but well written biography of Joseph Campbell. He is currently in Paris, it is 1927 and Sylvia Beach is walking him through the writings of James Joyce.

Looking deeper into the life of Sylvia Beach it was pure Parisian. She even had a man recreate her bookstore and was left the store’s name in her will. He named his daughter after Sylvia. Though I am not a bibliophile, I am an avid reader in all media. I do, on occasion like to be in the company of people who love books for books sake.

The Zen saying about reading being the same as scratching the sole of another’s shoe to relieve an itch on your own foot still hangs over me when I get too into books alone as an escape, rather than an entertainment.

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Hegemony on on line

Not sure what is going on here.

Google seems to be taking over the world. First my Writely account and now the Blogger. Is there not a non Google tainted online application out there? The next thing you know, they’ll take over YouTube!

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