It's News to Me

In what I suppose will come as a shock to some who think of me as a »SuperFan» of Flock, I'm announcing that during the last week I have decided to change my default browser to Firefox 2.0, just as Tish is getting on the Flock bandwagon.  The primary reason for the change, in my case, is speed or the relative lack of it in Flock.  It may be just my system or it may be that because Flock aspires to do so much, it will always be slower than FF, but whatever the reason, there is enough of a speed difference that the extra effort required to make this change seems justified.

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I know many people are fond of waxing nostalgic about the joys of curling up with a good book and how much better that is than trying to read something on a computer monitor.  And to a degree I can appreciate that perspective.  Because you can take the book to bed and read it there or on a train or plane while traveling and because there is a certain joy in the feel of just turning the pages, staring at a CRT or an LCD screen isn't nearly as convenient and that represents something of a hurdle that one must overcome to see any benefits to reading something online.  But as I've done it more, I've now actually come to prefer curling up with a good CRT to read many things.  Why?  Well, that's what I want to talk about in this post for a moment.

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Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7 are out and available.  I've installed Firefox 2.0 on my own computer and yesterday, I helped my friend Paul install IE7 on his.  He described IE7 as the Rolls-Royce of browsers, but I countered that it is more like getting a new car of the same brand.  There are a number of new bells and whistles, but it is the same kind of car.  I like it much better than IE6, but it is a matter of preference as to whether it is that much better than FF 2.0.  I do like the way it does RSS feeds, however.

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I am almost embarrassed to admit that I have only today discovered this technique, but I must swallow my pride and state what to everyone else may be obvious.

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For some time now, I've been disturbed by the fact that the theme for this blog didn't display the same way in Internet Explorer as it did in Firefox (or Flock).  This morning, I've used widgets to display the items in the sidebar and in the process, that has seemed to clear up the problem of how it displays in IE.  I may continue to tinker with other themes, because though I like the clean look of the Barthelme theme, there are many, many more options out there and I may be able to find one I like better. 

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Apparently Cheryl and the children made a trip to Dollywood yesterday because she has posted some pictures of the children on her Flickr photostream.  However, for some legitimate reasons, those pictures are made visible only to Family and Friends who have Flickr accounts and are so designated.  So while I can point you to her photostream, you won't see the children's pictures there. 

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I notice that Barry has responded to Tish's request to make the full text of his RSS feed available rather than just the first 255 characters.  Thank you, sir.  I think it makes the aggregated feed at KnoxBloggers.com more readable and symmetrical, given that the rest of us send the full text in our RSS feeds.

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Since Mike has reported on the content of what we covered at last night's KnoxBloggers meeting and Tish has shared her impressions of it, all that remains for me is to upload the pictures.

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The monthly meeting of the KnoxBloggers group takes place tonight at 7:00 PM at Mike Neel's house. Because a number of Mike's coworkers have told him that, though they aren't yet bloggers, they thought they might like to give it a whirl, we decided to spend this meeting talking about how to get started blogging. So Mike will lead tonight's discussion, and he has asked me to contribute anything I can to his presentation. I certainly don't want to preemptively steal Mike's thunder with this post, however I'd like to get a few ideas down here so that we can refer to them tonight.

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On Monday, October 2, I left town to visit my family in Georgia for a couple of days, but the two-day visit I had planned originally turned into a four-day visit, and I didn't get back to Knoxville until Friday around noon.  That's why there were no blog posts last week.  I thought about announcing this visit in advance but I generally don't want to make it known that I am out of town for home security reasons.

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