Archive for November, 2006

Funny Money

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

When we were in China, one of the little things that drove me crazy was the sizes of the currency (the bills). They came in all sorts of sizes and keeping them sorted and in a nice stack was difficult. I couldn’t understand why they would make them all different sizes. I guess if you […]

Firefox + OS X, Part II

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Weeks later of using Firefox as my primary browser, I find myself largely satisfied by the experience. Google Reader performs well, and Firefox doesn’t ever get to the point where I’m constantly getting beach balls like I get with Safari after days (weeks?) of usage.
Some little things:

Safari does seem a little snappier. I don’t know […]

Firefox on OS X

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

I’ve always preferred Safari over Firefox on OS X for a couple of random reasons.

Spellcheck!
Aqua widgets
Native GUI
Scrolling feels a little different.

However, one thing that has always kind of annoyed me with Safari is Javascript performance. And beachballs. And since I find myself using Google Reader more, it is becoming more annoying.
So I figured with Firefox […]