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I’ve been using Mozilla forever. I installed Firefox long ago and continue to update it and use it sometimes when I want a different browser (such as for logging into a site w/ a different login, staying logged in with Mozilla and logging in w/ a different user ID in firefox). I like the Firefox plugins, but that’s it. I am making a list of reasons why I like Mozilla better. I’ll post it when it gets long enough [later today] (it’s all in my head and I can’t make a list right now, brain fried). I hope mozilla stays around a long time, and keeps it’s superior features.

EDITED TO ADD: Here’s my list so far of what I like about Mozilla over Firefox:

* I hate the way History is displayed and none of the options give what I want (like it is in Mozilla).
* I like the integrated mail of Mozilla.
* I hate that in firefox there is a seperate box for google search, I prefer to do it the Mozilla way- type in keyword into url box, hit down-arrow, BOOM, it’s done.
* I hate the firefox search-in-page feature.  In Mozilla, you just start typing the word.  But in Firefox, you have to do ctrl+f first and then that stupid bar pops up on the bottom.  Hate it.
* In firefox, the “open in new tab” right-click option for a link opens it in a non-focused tab. I prefer an in-focus tab like in firefox.
** Even if all the above things can be done in firefox, it’s not by default.  I don’t want to have to install a bunch of extension and change a bunch of settings when Mozilla already does everything I want.

kw: mozilla, firefox, browers, browsers, better browser

This is a riot.  I ordered a USB drawing tablet from amazon and today they sent me an email to say that they shipped it via fedex, so I copy/pasted  the tracking number and looked it up at fedex’s website and it said that it was already delivered to J. Martinez (not me) in New York City (that’s not where I live) in November of 2005.  Then I went back and clicked on the link in the amazon email and it took me to amazon.com where it showed the SAME thing!  Bizarre.  I’m not going to get excited yet.  Maybe it’ll be updated later.  WEIRD.

kw: amazon, amazon.com, fed ex, fedex, tracking number

This makes me sick to my stomach:

from digg:
“Photographer arrested and beat up by police after photographing them” “A photographer tangled with the Miami-Dade Police Dept. and ended up in the slammer…”

I love the GorillaPod.  I have a large one for slr-zoom but I also have a small one for the point-n-shoot that I take w/ me everywhere.  That, plus macro, plus white-balance, plus a 3-second self timer (because the small gorillapod tends to quiver a bit), and I’ve been getting some fun shots up close in darker places. 

I’ve been trying out CoComment and so far I love it.  You sign up for free, install a firefox extension (or use a bookmarklet) and it tracks all the comments you leave on OTHER blogs around the net.  It makes it SUPER easy to check to see if any of your comments have been replied to, or say you want to go back and edit a comment you left.  It’s awesome. 

So, I got my new MacBook at a brand new Apple Store that opened up this past Saturday.  M. wanted to be there when they opened to get a free t-shirt, but I knew I’d never get up early, and in the end, he didn’t either.  I really like the store, it’s groovy.  Full of techy guys in black and grey t-shirts.  Almost too much for me!  Is it just me or are the “Geniuses” just way too cool?!    I wanted to apply there before they opened, but it’d be a bit of a drive for me in awful tourist traffic, and also we have YET to move to our new house, so I can’t go get a just-for-fun job when we have “moving” hanging over our heads.  Apple Stores are FUN tho’.

So I use Trillian on my PC.  Now I got a MacBook and M. installed Adium for me.  When I set up my accounts, I got all these alerts asking me if I’d allow these people to add me to their IM contact list.  I just clicked YES to all of them cuz I figured maybe I just don’t regocnize the email associated w/ the ID, but maybe I know the people.  Then I get an IM from a guy who says “I don’t know you, who are you?” and we chat a bit and I have NO idea who he is or where I know him from or why he messaged me (except that I guess when I clicked “OK” to all those alerts, those people got confirmation alerts.  So then, I get BACK on my PC for a bit and start up Trillian, and I get the same alerts AGAIN!  This time I clicked NO to the ones I didn’t recognize (most of them).  That’s just weird.  Truth is, I have SOOOOOo many IM contacts in Trillian it’s NUTS.  I hate to delete seemingly “old” contacts because sometimes people DO pop on IM that I have literally not seen in years!  So I hate to delete them.  That said, if you do like to chat w/ me on IM, especially MSN IM, you may have to re-ad me to your contact list.

Picture of The Pug taken w/ the built-in camera on the MacBook.

While at Mom’s condo today, some punks sprayed a fire extinguisher into a neighbor’s window, filling the place w/ a cloud of that chemical.  The neighbor called the cops and 5 cop cars came.  She said the stuff burned her nostrils when she breathed it.  You’re not supposed to breathe the stuff, what *ssholes to do that.  That lady is nice, too.  There are some real mean people who live there, but no, the kids targeted a nice lady.  OH well.  At least nobody was hurt.  But boy, she has a lot of cleaning up to do now (it left all kinds of residue in her place).

I love my new MacBook. It’s quite a bit heavier than my purse-laptop, my Fujitsu P1150 which I love OH SO MUCH. So, I won’t be taking the MacBook everywhere I go. But at least it IS light enough that it CAN go places.  I guess the macbook is 5.2 pounds and the Fujitsu P1150 is about 2 pounds even w/ the extended-life battery.  So there’s really no comparison.  I’ll use the macbook mainly at home and will bring it some places.  But the Fujitsu will remain my “purse laptop” that goes everywhere (it’s so cool, it’s even a tablet).  (It’s current incarnation is a 1610.)

I’m so excited to have a Mac again. I’ll have to listen to the Mac podcasts more than I did before, to get back up to speed on what’s new in the Mac world.

I’m lovin’ the new Mac. I have to get used to having a Mac again. It’s funny how if I surf on the Mac for a couple hours and then switch back to the PC, it takes me a few mintues to get back into the swing of things. Like, “Oh yeah, can’t two-finger scroll on the PC…”

M. installed this funny program on my macbook called IAlertU, which is like a motion-detect car alarm for your laptop. The macbook has that “shake” detection feature, and you “arm” the laptop w/ the remote and it beeps just like a car alarm. Then, if anyone moves the laptop, the “car alarm” sound goes off AND you can set it take a pic w/ the built-in web cam and email a pic of the perp to you. It’s a riot.

I GOT A MACBOOK! w00t! I was origianally a Mac Girl. My first computer was a used “Mac Plus” (is that what it was called?) that I had circa. 1993 (that is, unless you count the Texas Instruments computer I had in 1983 which I used to play with BASIC on), then I moved from that up to a used 16mhz Macintosh LCII. After that, M. moved down from Canada w/ his much faster PC so I started using that. Once it was time to buy me a new computer, I already had tons of PC software, so I stuck w/ PC. *sigh* But Macs always had a soft spot in my heart. We have a mac in the house that I never get to use, an eMac that M. uses as his main computer in the house (that sometimes I get to try iMovie on), and a used iMac we got off ebay recently that I have yet to get my hands on.

But today we went to check out the new Apple Store nearby and somehow I managed to leave w/ a new macbook! I’m so psyched. Now I can “get back into mac”. I wanted to get away form PCs before Vista was forced upon me. I figured it was Mac or Linux (or both). I had wanted a MacBook Pro, but the one I got was a good compromise for the money and the fact that I like lighter laptops to take along with me.

What I got is a MacBook core 2 duo and we’re gonna up it to 2 gigs of ram. So far I love it and am sure I’ll love it more each day as I learn all the cool new things I can do w/ the machine.

Here are some cameraphone pix I moblogged earlier that never showed up:

Edited to add: Oh, and I’ll have to think of a name. So far in our family we’ve had: fuster, marklar, frankenstein, bertha, max, mel, mac, ike, ike jr., fred, zeus, eddie…

kw; apple, mac book, macbook, apple store, macbook pro, linux, core 2 duo.

Wow, this is an awesome website / artist. DO check it out-

Site: moonlight-chronicles.com

Video about him:

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Check this out, “Faith”, the bi-pedal dog! Born w/ no front legs… humanelement.blogspot.com/2007/02/most… and http://www.faiththedog.net/

I’ve been following this story for a while and it really has me very upset. I didn’t know that you could donate to the lady’s legal fund. I want to. Please spread the word about this horrible story.

drumsnwhistles.com/2007/02/18/julie-amero…

I will probably add a few more links to this post later, so do check back.

Update:

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/02/16/malware…

From Digg:

This is a very informative article, it explains DRM so that anyone can understand it-

blog.wired.com…

I’ve been using PZIZZ to help get to sleep.

http://www.pzizz.com/ 

It’s software that generates tracks for your ipod to help you get to sleep, either for the night or for an energizing nap.  Each time you generate a nap, it’s different, so that your subconcious doesn’t get bored of hearing the same thing.

Last night I heard rain and wind while listening to it.  I thought, “gee, that’s new”, but it turned out to be storming outside!  LOL

kw: pzizz, sleep, insomnia, ipod

I like these two sites:

Handmade Stuff:

PixelGirlShop.com

A place to buy and sell all things handmade:

www.etsy.com

Ok, radar detectors are useless if…

Originally uploaded by MiaMyselfAndI.

Ok, radar detectors are useless if you are going to play your stereo so loud you don’t even hear it go off. I got snagged for speeding today for the first time ever but luckily got a warning, whew!!! He was super nice tho and that’s really cool.

testing

Originally uploaded by MiaMyselfAndI.

Just testing email-to-flickr-to-blog.

Through my surfing travels I found this really neat website:

prettydarnswell.com/ … their “About” page: prettydarnswell.com/newaboutus.htm

… a site where you can buy art from budding artists and part of the money goes to charity. Check it out!

From digg:

“NPR: Wii offers “a false sense of what it’s like to compete in the world”: “Parents often get a bad rap when it comes to video games. If they aren’t complaining about how violent games are and then ignorantly buying their children the same games, they’re on a crusade to get their children to go outside and enjoy the real world. However, nothing you’ve seen, heard, or read before will prepare you for the latest concern…”

arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2007/2/13/7029 

digg.com/gaming_news/NPR_Wii_offers….

From digg:

“The end of anonymity on the Internet “Over 20 million PCs worldwide are equipped with a tiny security chip called the Trusted Platform Module, although it is as yet rarely activated. But once merchants and other online services begin to use it, the TPM will do something never before seen on the Internet: provide virtually fool-proof verification that you are who you say you are.”

digg.com/security/The_end_of_anonymity_on_the_Internet 

from digg.com

Seen today online:
“Now this is a blizzard!”
Blizzard Photos

Ok, I know I”m late to the party but MY GOD this is freakin’ hillarious!

Fark: Photoshop This: Leop Laporte 

Thanks to Jill for pointing out that amazing video.

Quote from site: “His name is Stephen Wilshire and he is considered a star among savants in London. Stephen has the uncanny ability to photograph places he has seen only once with his mind. He is then able to reproduce them on canvas with amazing accuracy. This video is simply astounding!“

It really IS amazing.

I added a “twitter” badge to the sidebar, the little “what I’m doing” box.

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