Sunday, June 17, 2007

Safari... I tried the Safari v3 beta on several different machines this past week. On my work PC (Windows XP Pro) it actually works like a charm. No crashes or anything like that. On my Powerbook (A 12" G4 (last generation before the MacBooks - so it is maxed out as far as Powerbooks go))... on the other hand.. It ran BUT everything seemed to have slowed down. Menus dropped down slower. Text entry in some programs was slower. Firefox slowed down to almost unusable. Overall... not encouraging (Good thing it is a beta) I uninstalled it on my Powerbook. The system seems a bit faster now. Except Firefox (2.0). That stayed slow after the uninstall. The uninstall must not have uninstalled everything. Haven't tried it on my mini (under either Mac OSX or XP) I should say, just to be honest, that I've always felt Firefox on a Mac was excruciatingly slow. Speed wise, on my Macs, Safari has always been faster subjectively. Not a big deal. I prefer the uncluttered looked of Safari anyway. I don't need/want "Kitchen Sink Software." I just want a web browser that works. And I have yet needed to visit a web site that doesn't work with Safari. Sure, Firefox has that wonderful extension thing going for it... but I don't need most of that. (And I don't understand the Safari hatred in some quarters. And I don't care that some people claim Firefox is better. So let's not go there. Okay? I come from the "Simple is good" school of user interface design. Safari fits my philosophy better than anything else at this point.) I do use Firefox almost exclusively at work. But that's because I don't have much choice other than IE. (I use both because I work on a Web 1.0 application/web interface to one of our applications (Meaning it has very little Javascript and only uses CSS for font colors, and other color things.) And no, I can't rewrite it as a Web 2.0 kind of thing. I can't change the interface - much.) 4:37:42 AM    Notes [] Not a lot of writing. So much for plans to finish off a couple stories by the summer. I feel more like a reader than a writer this year. About all I've decided is that I can't start anything new until I finish the old stuff. Hence the lack of writing. I just can't get inspired enough about any of my stories to work on them. 4:19:38 AM    Notes [] I worry about things... Can't explain it, I just do. Probably more than I really should. Used to drive my ex crazy. Usually it's about the future. I try to guess/predict what is going to happen based on things I've done or things that could have happened. And prepare for them. In all possible permutations. Not a good thing, I think, to be so pessimistic as a result of that. Hope for the best, expect the worst? I also worry about things happening as a result of something I did. Usually as a result of driving (A lot of my worries? Center around my car. Especially if I felt like I did something stupid or potentially foolish while driving. Yes, a matter of perception. ) Oddly enough... this part of the country... some of the worse drivers I've ever seen. They don't pay any attention to speed limits or things like yield signs or stop signs or red lights... And I worry that this has seriously affected my own driving ability. I know I drive faster than I should on the way to work/home every day... even if I'm driving WITH traffic so I can't really drive much slower without causing an accident. I need to work on that. Need to get my regular speed down a notch or two. Cut back on the yellow light syndrome. Especially since I'll be traveling this summer to a part of the country where they actually pay attention to traffic laws. Bad driving habits? Hard to break. Especially when it is the norm for your area. And to top all this off? This area... rated in the top 10 by my insurance company for safe drivers... in the country... based on how many accidents people have. Scary, very scary. Especially since I actually see how people around here drive. Have to wonder if that is based on only that insurance company's customers (Insurance wasn't required around here until a couple years ago. So a lot of people didn't even have car insurance.) 4:15:37 AM    Notes []

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