Add-Ons

I use Firefox for my browser - it rocks to no end.  I love that it is so customizable.  I love that it is so easy to personalize.  I love that there are so many Add-Ons that are available to choose from.  I love that they are so easy to add or remove.  I love that Firefox lets you know when there are updates.  I love that Firefox doesn’t crash very often…  Can you feel the love? 

My newest Add-On is a reader for the blogs I follow.  I used a reader years ago when I followed newsgroups, but for some reason it never occurred to me to look for a reader for blogs.  The one that I chose to use is called Brief and I could not be happier with it.  It is so nice to not have to go through all my bookmarks every time to see if there is a new post or not.   As I find more and more blogs I like, it can take a bit of time to scroll through them all – it’s so nice now that the reader does it for me!  I wish I had thought to look for this sooner 

I have many Add-Ons, but some of my particular favorites are: Fission, IE Tab (for those few sites that don’t support anything but IE – I don’t ever have to open IE again in my life!), Personas and XMarks.

I can only say Thank you! to all the people who come up with these cool applications that help make playing and working on the internet a lot more fun…

Melancholy

It's been a depressing week.

My Dad was moved to another facility again - now he's even farther away. On the days I go to visit after work, I can't count on doing anything else. By the time I get home, I eat and it's time for bed.

The raise I needed at work didn't come through, so I am actively job-hunting again. Talk about a time-suck.

I've been working little-by-little insulating my basement now that the radiant floor heat is working. Normally, I have no trouble when working with the pink insulation. I know that they say you're supposed to wear gloves and protective clothing when putting in the stuff, but it's never bothered me, so I never worried about it. Now they yellow stuff - yikes! I've learned the hard way that yellow is waaaaay different than pink.

I was putting an insulation blanket on the hot water tank that I'm using to heat my floors. The blanket is yellow insulation, not pink. I never thought twice about not using gloves or anything - Boy, did I pay for that mistake! For the next day I felt like I had fallen into a massive field of stinging nettles. Even after showering and washing what felt like a million times, my skin still hurt.

Moral of this story: Yellow insulation = Use lots of protection

It was a bad day at work today too, which didn't help my mood.

It seems that the only good excitement I had this week was learning about some Firefox add-ons that Al talked about on his blog. My absolute favorite is the IE Tab. I never have to use IE ever again! Whoever invented this is a genius :)

Other things that were new to me that I really liked:
- FEBE Firefox Environment Backup Extension
- Foxmarks
- PC Decrapifier

And then while looking around at the other add-ons in the Firefox collection, I found this one that I really liked - Fission.

Here's hoping things start looking up - I hate feeling this way.