Why I’m sick of Firefox…

Nobody can explain to me why it’s doing this and every forum that I find even discussing Firefox’s “resource leak” issue is filled with diehards calling it a “feature,” not a bug. A) I’ve tried all of the “fixes” for this “feature” and none of them work. B) It’s not a “feature” if everyone in the known universe has to go in and turn it off. If historic caching truly is the source of this, then just freaking fix it – the concept only works “in concept” anyways, as that would slaughter any dial-up users’ experience just the same.

It’s sad when I’m considering going back to IE, but my web browser shouldn’t monopolize 50% of my CPU on idle.

For those curious, I have three browser windows open with mulitple tabs in each, but nothing that I see should consistently be a resource hog – 4 LiveJournal tabs, Digg & BoingBoing, a couple of forums, and some static pages that I’m doing web design on right now. Anybody got any other ideas on how to kill this beast???

10 Things I’ve Learned from 2006…

1. Communication and understanding are the two most important things in a relationship. Someone who you can tell literally anything to without worry of being judged is someone worth holding on to.
2. How your job makes you feel can directly impact how you feel about life in general and whenyou spend 40+ hours a week there, that’s just too much power to allow a job that doesn’t treat you right. If the job won’t change for you, change jobs altogether – you’ll be much happier in the long run.
3. There’s nothing wrong with reminiscing about the past from time to time, but don’t let dwelling on it stand in the way of living in the now. It’s called the past for a reason.
4. Just because everyone else disagrees with you doesn’t make you wrong. Believing in yourself is more important than swaying the popular vote.
5. Things don’t always go as planned – you can either let change ruin your day or you can go with the flow and make the best of things. In the long run, it’ll be a lot more fun to look back and laugh than to look back and realize what a jerk you were being.
6. No matter how down your last love leaves you, never give up hope that there are other fish in the sea. Also, don’t expect to catch that trophy fish until you get yourself back out on the water.
7. The right woman for me will let it slide that I just compared her to a fish in my last note. The trophy aspect is the only resemblance that they share, I swear…
8. Following one’s dreams takes focus, determination, and more time than you could ever predict. Let any one of these things slip and well, you end up seeing another year go by without any fruition whatsoever. Don’t let enough years go by like this to the point where you actually start second-guessing those dreams.
9. Learning from your mistakes may not make them ok, but at least it’s a little easier to live with yourself after the fact.
10. It’s worth the effort to try a few things outside of your comfort zone every now and then. While they may make you nervous or uneasy, usually it’s the best way to grow or expand on your horizons and nobody ever said that it was a requirement to compromise your own standing in the process.

judging a book by its pervert

Here’s a late-night text message conversation that transpired between Sara and I while she was at work that I found pretty amusing. For background, she’s a phlebotomist (takes people’s blood) at a local hospital…

Sara: I just had to go into the room of a pervert…
Scott: What makes you think that he was a pervert???
Sara: He was playing with his penis the whole time I was in the room, and when I stuck him (with the needle to take his blood), he said “Yeah, give it to me, baby…”
Scott: Ok. Yeah, that’s pretty perverted…

this is really hard

http://www.dailyhaha.com/_flash/jeu_chiant.swf

I don’t know what any of the words say, but the object is to keep both balls in play by balancing the bottom one and bouncing the other. I think my high score was something like three seconds because I am becoming an old man who isn’t very good at video games anymore…

Enjoy.

Merry Christmas!

It was a nice, quiet Christmas at home this year, filled with movies and video games and plenty of napping … and that’s ok. This has been such a busy season that I didn’t really get the chance to do much of the things that I normally do for the holidays (bake cookies, send out Christmas cards, etc…), but we made due with what we had and I think my first Christmas together with Sara went pretty well.

Seasons greetings to you all, whether I got a chance to talk or e-mail with you or not … I hope everyone had a terrific Christmas and a great New Years to come!