Talking of Firefox...

Add-ons you should download! These are the ones I use, and I'm not entirely positive I could live without them.

I'll start with Tile Tabs. Oh. Em. Gee. This is an amazing one. I just found it today, and I've already mastered it and adopted its use entirely. It gives you the option to tile your tabs. No, seriously. I can't think of a better way to put it than that. You can right-click on any of your open tabs, and have it side-by-side, or top and bottom,  or any combination thereof, with others. I'm not sure there's a limit on how many, but I've been able to tile 7 or 8 without any issue (except visibility. I just did it for fun anyway.).

I'm writing a post for my other blog, Great Illo!, there. Plug!

It's great for multitasking without multi-monitors (laptop user, here), and I am as excited about this as I was when I first got tabbed browsing!

More after the break.

Firefox 4!

I loves it. I loves it like I loves Soda-Pop, and that's a lot. It runs much faster, looks amazing (at least in Ubuntu and Windows), and has so many nifty features!

Application tabs are awesome. Very awesome. I was afraid they would slow startup, but it doesn't seem to be much of an issue, and I've got a few. They're there for those "web-apps" that you leave open pretty much all the time, and they stay there until you tell Firefox otherwise. There are a few issues I have with that feature, though. If you navigate away from the "app" address in the same tab it changes the URL associated with that tab until you change it back. I also feel that they could stand to be paused or have to be initiated, rather than live, in the event that resources become an issue. Easy enough to solve both of those in the future: app tabs could be locked to the domain; they don't need to load until you've shown that you're actually going to use it in this session, and they can idle out after a set time of inactivity.

Sync! I already used it. Extremely handy for me, considering I run at least a dual boot on all my machines, and and triple on my primary. It's as good as ever, and you don't realise you need it until you have it.

Tab groups, I don't use. Yet.

The interface is so clean and integrates with the OS so well. Of course it also frees up more viewable area. One might say they copied off of Chrome, but bear in mind all of what Firefox has pioneered in web browsers that has since become the industry standard. Also, Chrome has basically zero OS integration, which can completely ruin the unified look across a desktop.

I was going to wait until they pushed it as an update, but I'm glad I didn't. I advise anyone who has used Firefox in the past give it a look-see.

AT&T + T-Mobile = Bad Idea

   I hope the FCC stops this. I know they aren't big fans of AT&T, based on some of the things I've seen in the past between them. I don't like the idea for a number of reasons. Most of them are simply economical.

This takes up a lot of the home page here, so go to the break for the scoop.

Well it's been a minute...

I've started another blog. One with a theme. It's called "Great Illo!", and, as the name would suggest, it's about digital artwork. Well, t-shirts. If I find any works that are not shirts they'll be up there too. You should check it out since you love me so much.

Hmmm...

   What to to write about... I can't neglect the ol' bloggy-poo, now can I?

   The past couple of weeks have been quite different. This whole overnight shift is really taking over my life. I can't seem to sleep at an early enough time during the day to be awake at a reasonable hour in the evening. I have lost all of what little social life I had left, and have nothing to fill the void.
   "So," I say to myself, "do something. if you don't have any real people to talk with in your off time, and you can't really talk to yourself, find yourself some sort of vent for all the things you have to say!"
   I take this blog off of the shelf and blow the dust off, only to find nothing of worth about it. I don't really have a theme, so I'm forced to improvise. Because of this I say nothing but what is right at the front of my mind. I don't publish those posts because nobody really cares, and why would they? I'm only publishing this post because I need to get a little bit of myself out there.
   If somebody has something to say, or wants to reach out, I'd be amazed. However, this is more for myself than the entertainment of others. I'm glad I got that out of my system.

   I think I may start another blog entirely. One with a theme that I may actually maintain. We'll see.
  

Brilliant Art Shirt

CMDixon2 never ceases to amaze me with his talent. It's always a joy when his better works get printed. Toucan Sheds His Tint (below) is no exception.



   This piece is just gorgeous. The concept itself is enough to pull me in. It's executed perfectly. The realism, yet simplicity; the motion, the balance, and the minimal color pallet work perfectly together to bring this work to your attention.
   I have had my fingers crossed for this since it fist showed up in the derby, and it was always 1 rank away from a print. I'm very glad to see it finally got the recognition it deserved.

Have you ever noticed?: Documentaries

  I have decided that I may start a column. A series of posts about something that I have noticed that I find amusing or just intriguing. This is the first of that series.

  Have you ever noticed how documentaries tend to all follow the same formula for an opening?

I'll explain, after the break!

Apple makes me sick.

   At the risk of getting hated on by fanboys I figure I should weigh in on the iPad 2.

   The iPad is a joke. It's a big screen iPhone you can't make calls on. Yes, I have used one. Recently, in fact. I was less than impressed.

Break for space saving.

Yes. I will write.

   I suppose I will start devoting more time to this. I often find myself bored while I'm on the computer, and I have recently rescheduled to the overnight shift, so I have nothing else to do in my free time while everyone else is asleep.

   Let's get you caught up on things then. I no longer have the car or Jeep I once wrote about. I now have an old '94 Subaru Impreza. It isn't much to look at, but it still runs, runs well, and gets me where I need to go.
   I now almost solely use Linux and free software on my home machines. I find it much easier to work with, I love the customisation options available, and it has forced me to learn a lot about computers and such. Expect quite a few screenshots as I feel the need to post them.
   I have yet to make it back in school, but that should change now that I have a work schedule that's easier to work around.

   So that's my life up to this point. Now that I've got the admittedly pointless personal post out of the way I can get to work on making things more interesting around here.

A fresh start?

Some of you (audience members who do not exist) may note that I have given the blog a dramatic facelift and a new name. Could this be a new era? An era where I actually devote time to this? Stay tuned.