A List Apart is back. Woohoo.
I've been considering switching my primary browser from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firebird. Firebird is a lot faster, a lot cleaner, and a lot more standards compliant than IE. And, yeesh, look at all the available extensions. (The Cards extension is horribly addictive.) I think Mozilla has finally recovered from that nasty misstep we web people called Netscape 6.
I'm trying out the beta of FeedDemon, the RSS reader from Nick Bradbury. Bradbury created the greatest HTML editor of all time (and, sadly, quite absorbed into Macromedia), Homesite, and a damn fine CSS editor, TopStyle. FeedDemon doesn't disappoint -- it's as easy to use as TopStyle, as flexible and extensible as Homesite, and it lets you slice 'n' dice feeds in a lot of ways I've haven't seen in other RSS readers.
And then there's football. My Colorado Buffaloes aren't doing too well in football this year, and that's due to their inability to play defense. They're in the bottom ten of every defensive category the NCAA tracks. This weekend, they play #1 ranked Oklahoma and its #2 ranked offense. Next weekend, it's Texas Tech's #1 ranked offense. Bad defense. High-powered offense. Records could be broken. I don't know if I'm even going to watch.
A lot's been said about Elliot Smith. I liked his music, though I thought he was trying too hard at times to channel Nick Drake. Sad end, though. Seems that singer-songwriters, composers of many a quiet and mournful song about some sad death or loss, always seem to die in very sad ways.
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I agree with you about Firebird -- it's an impressive browser, and clearly better than even Mozilla, much less IE. When version 0.7.1 comes out, I'll download it for my Mac (I'm already using Firebird on Windows at work).
I just upgraded to Mozilla 1.5 on my Mac, and it ate my bookmarks file. Which I hadn't thought to back up. Dammit.
Posted by: Steve Casburn | October 24, 2003 06:57 PM
