Nerd Post!
Ok only like the second half. So you can stop reading when that happens.
Anyway!
Work has been fun. I mean… I know it’s only my first job but still. I enjoy it a lot. It’s fun and a great sight to see people able to have fun; even more so if little kids are freakin’ pumped to see Elmo or Super Grover [since he’s usually right at the entrance of the park next to his ride]. Not to mention, it’s me being my friendly self and being thanked for it :) [except when people don’t say thank you… but that’s only like 1% anyway]. I actually find myself smiling after seeing their happy faces. It’s cheesy I know, but that’s how I live my life; to spread happiness. One person actually said I was very kind. That made my day :D!
Yesterday after work, SK and I got some Taco Bell. When I got home, Jeremy and his family was there with pictures from Punta Cana [I’m uploading them in various places now]. After I took a shower, I played some Rainbow Six: Vegas with Jeremy and looked at some of the pictures. Called Liun at about 11 and didn’t go to sleep until half an hour later. Today after work, SK and I went to the Borders right next to Oxford Valley Mall. He got The Stand by Stephen King. I just looked around to see if anything interested me. Nothing. When I got home I called Liun as promised last night but she had to leave after half an hour, so I fell straight to sleep. Woke up at about 8 and had dinner. Played some Rainbow Six: Raven Shield today. Besides that? Nothing toooo big going on. Woo.
Nerd time:
Why does no Internet browser seem to suit me? Every single one I’ve tried, I can’t keep. I’ve tried nearly all of the free ones for Mac now; Firefox, Safari, Camino, Shiira, Opera, and even SeaMonkey. None of them was the killer browser for me.
Firefox ate RAM like nothing and the RSS feed system sucked big time [RSS is a main feature I look for now]. Safari has the greatest RSS feed thingy out of all of them, but doesn’t do well in any other feature. Another bad thing that I don’t like about Safari is that there isn’t a bar that can show what the URL is that you’re about to click [the bottom bar when you hover over a link for most browsers]. You can’t even check the properties of the link for that matter. This is very bad for potential hacking. Also. No ad blocking :/ Camino doesn’t have any RSS feed jawn or spell checker, but everything else it does, it does well [at least on a Mac :P]. Shiira is too buggy [but very attractive as it’s written completely in cocoa], and Opera uses almost the same amount of RAM as Firefox with a few add-ons plugged in. Opera also has the best download manager with the best support for download resuming. SeaMonkey simply looks blech for a Mac application. Anyone familar with Mozilla [the browser] or Netscape’s browser would recognize it. Although the look is very blech, it’s still a suite meaning there are other features than browsing. Included comes an IRC chat cliet, an HTML web editor, and a mail box.
So what do I use now? Camino. Everything is done nicely and it works for me. Sure, there’s nothing for RSS or spell checker, but whatever. Maybe if they all had one massive baby, it’d be awwwwesome.
Next nerdy thing.
Slowly, but surely, I’m starting to really use the iLife programs on my iMac. Before, I didn’t bother touching iPhoto since I already had Preview and didn’t wanna waste my time with it. Same with Mail [not an iLife program, but still]. I had Gmail, so why bother? Then I realized that my Gmail Notifier was using a crap load of RAM for some reason and the notification time was long. So I decided to ditch that and convert completely to Mail [it’s sort of like Outlook if you don’t know]. Why did I start using iPhoto? Well it took me a long time to realize that the iLife programs do an amazing job at sorting everything out both inside the program and in the folders of my hard drive. I realized this with iTunes, and now for iPhoto. I don’t think I’ll ever use iWeb though, as it looks like it only works best with themes built in and to start from scratch is a bit difficult. iMovie, GarageBand, and iDVD work fabulously for the times I’ve used it [twice haha]. iCal I’ve been using forever except not recently for some reason… I’ll get back on that.
And lastly.
The Tardis is the greatest science fiction vehicle ever.