I Have Posted Elsewhere

I have become incredibly lazy, there are things I have been meaning to do, but can't be arsed to do. I meant to tell blog I was returned... didn't do that. Meant to put up my rss feed link on this page (in the template), still haven't done that. Meant to make a proper post here about diversifying, not being so narrow in what I post here (it's too tech, tech) haven't done that either. But I have posted on last.fm so here is a link to that post (more about netlabels and some of my fave artists on them).

And here is a link to the rss feed.
I shall get around to putting it in the template someday. But no hurry, seeeing as no one reads this anyway...

I Shall Be Away.

Off, sans computer for a while. I will be pining. I'm far too adapted to this way of life. What a development for a duck.

Birmingham's free Arts festival Artsfest was on last weekend. I saw parts. Elliot Jack were the best music act I saw. (With banter about breakfast cereal while waiting for their powerbook to sort itself out.)

I may write more when I return.

What is Becomming of Me?

This is turning into a software blog. I have to do something about it. Soon some non-software related posts. I am slowly becoming more geeky. Though hooray for that, though still no software next post. I am kinda geeky according to this extensive (but old) geek test. I forget what my actual delineation was, which isn't very geek like is it?

I have been downloading lots of torrents from legaltorrents.com where you can torrents of movies and music, a few books and audiobooks. All nice and guilt free as they are under the Creative Commons License. It's the music I am interested in right now. I have nearly all of the net.label stuff that is up there. I like Enough Records, Observatory Online, and Please Do Something stuff. One Archives is good too. In fact all prett much all of what I have heard, I like. It's electronica, beats, experimental type stuff; ambient, soundscapes, some drum and bass, technoish and idm (I don't like that term but there it is), that kind of thing, yer usual netlabel fare, although it is not your usual fare, there's some very good stuff out there. There is more a The Internet Archive.org that I must check out. I'm going to be making use of that external drive I recently bought. (LaCie Mini 300GB, nice, and doubles as a hub too, giving you 4 extra powered USB ports and 2 firewire.)

Firefox 2 Beta 2 (Mac)

Just downloaded the new Firefox 2 beta 2.
And Ooh it is pretty. It looks as though they have updated the icons.

And the little close tab cross on each tab now glows red when you hover over it.
Tabs not currently in use are faded out (I don't recall this before, though I may be mistaken).
There is a small arrow you can click at the end of the window that shows a list of all your tabs. you can then click to choose a tab and are taken to it in the browser window.

Very useful with the sprawl of tabs I usually have open. (Was this around in beta 1? If it was I didn't notice it)

I am excited about the new Firefox. I'm regularly using the spellcheck and the "undo close tab" and the "recently closed tabs" item in the history menu. And of course the session restore feature, which reinstates all your previously open tabs when/if you crash, (which is rarely happening for me now). Lifesaver. I think I have said all this before.
Oh and on the tab thing, you can scroll through your tabs along with some green arrows that appear, so no more "where have my tabs gone" worries. (and yes I think this was in beta 1 too, again I can't be sure, but if it was I don't think the arrows were green.)

Overall it just seems to me to be more a lot smoother to use, and nicer to look at. More Macintosh-y, though is it aqua looking?.
Well whatever, I am impressed.
I shall see over the next coming days how stable it is.