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I’m posting this because I’ll probably forget by tomorrow, and it’s of earth-shattering importance like all my posts.
Forget pigs in lipstick and hurricanes and the tanking financial system. Google has released a sub-optimal browser. There is weeping and gnashing of teeth.
It’s not that Chrome doesn’t do what it needs to do. There’s a ton of functionality* in there. But just try finding it.
Yowza do these guys know how to bury good features. Like keywords for bookmarks, as discussed here.
I dig that we’re all sophisticated web users and stuff like that there and that you Gmen (and women) are all about elegant design. But why make it so you have to have a graduate degree to find a basic navigational feature?
Anyone? Google? Anyone?
*enough functionality that I switched my default browser choice to chrome from firefox. I did that a couple of hours before writing this post. Be warned though you California ggeeks, I’ve got a touch pad and I know how to use it!
Good evening race fans.
I should be going to bed right now but I’m not.
I should be working on my sermon instead of going to bed but I’m not.
I should be writing that chapter for the boyertown pictorial history book instead of working on my sermon but I’m not.
I should be transcribing interviews instead of working on the chapter but I’m not because the interviews don’t yet exist.
No, instead of all that I’m writing a blog post. Which is the one thing I really shouldn’t be doing right now.
So there.
Last night while I was having a blast meeting my kids’ teachers, my beloved Dell Inspiron E1505 was busy bricking.
A 10pm phone call to Dell support resulted in a wiped hard drive and the total paperweighting of a once great machine.
This morning I ran out and bought the cheapest thing I could find which was a Compaq Presario C700. Funny: it was so cheap yet it’s got scads more space, twice as much memory and is oodles faster than the Dell.
All that and I’m still upset. I lost some files but not a whole lot. I use an online backup service for everything important. Spent almost $500 that I didn’t need to spend and that is depressing, but I have so many jobs now that it’s not a bank breaker. Stretcher, but not a breaker.
I think I’m upset that I had really invested in that computer and even though it was starting to slow down, it worked very well. I think the hard drive is damaged because we couldn’t get it to load the windows reinstallation disk that came with it! Or perhaps that new iTunes version was borking XP as well as Vista.
Speaking of Vista, it’s what I’m stuck with using now. I couldn’t find anything with XP on it.
I’ll get over it. Eventually.
Chrome has no sidebar… yet.
When it debuted without one, it was a revelation for moi.
And today as a result of Eric’s post on the new browser, I am having a kind of epiphany. I am learning that I browse like no one else browses.
There, I said it.
Whew.
See, Google Chrome came out the other day and their new browser was up and running on my machine not more than five minutes after I learned of its existence.
But when I opened this new gTreasure, to my dismay there was no way to create a lefthand sidebar with all my lovely and easily imported from firefox bookmarks in it! HCY!!! (that means ‘how could you’)
Eric believes that Google probably won’t be adding a sidebar and that I’ll have to wait for some antsy developer to make a plug in. He’s probably right, too. If there were lots of us sidebar-geeks out there in the googlesphere, Chrome would probably offer a sidebar right out of the box.
So the epiphany: perhaps I am one of the few, the proud, the sidebar users? Can this be?
Do you use a sidebar? Come clean, you’re safe here.
Here’s what my firefox window looks like, with the virtually ever-present left hand sidebar.
Our church’s chicken bbq is a sophisticated operation.
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The sanctuary for sunday. Seems hanna may still be visiting then.
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Hi everyone. This is a post. On my blog! Can you believe it.
I just wanted to invite you all to our Chicken BBQ on Saturday. It takes place right here at Temple United Methodist Church, Temple and Unionville Roads, Pottstown PA.
Although it seems you’ll want to bring an umbrella, a windbreaker, boots, a rain hat, goggles and possibly a harness which you can use to attach yourself to a stationary object. Why? Because, as I’m told, Hanna will be there also.
And, of course, I have to deliver mail that day as well.
Should be interesting at least.
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