Firefox

Fri, 5 Mar 2004

I installed and (briefly) tried out Mozilla Firefox 0.8, née Firebird, née Phoenix. Oddly enough, I didn't like it at all. While I believe that the developers have been working hard, I didn't see any noticeable improvement. I did, however, notice that the scrollbar and forward and back buttons were missing! I couldn't figure out [...]

The importance of being nice

Thu, 4 Mar 2004

Nice is an interesting word. It has many different connotations and meanings, and I’m not just talking about Agnes Nutter. For my grandmother, who thought niceness was very important, I think it meant polite. For me, it sometimes meant someone who lets me do whatever I want, until I realized how absurd that was.