The blog of Brian Kirsten

 

Keeping my tabs together

I love to travel. If I could get my act together and figure out how to make it my career I would travel the world, rambling about the latest wine I drank or the amazing fjord I'd just seen. Since I haven't yet acted out my perma-traveling aspirations I generally travel on my own dollar, and since I'm a snobby brat I have a tendency to picked "fancier" hotels. And the thing that connects those fancy-schmancy hotels? You always have to pay for internet, they figure you love sleeping on Egyptian cotton so plunking down some dough to check your stocks isn't going to affect your bottom line. I'm ok with that.

Now that I've become a tab addict in Firefox, I have "Show my windows and tabs from last time" set in my Firefox start settings. Which means my 30+ "file until later" tabs always greet me when I open up Firefox. So nothing sucks worse than having all my tabs open up to a gateway page for the hotel I'm staying in asking for some dough for the internet. So how does one fix this? It's idiotically simple, I just pop open Safari (for you Windows folks open...Internet Explorer...shudder) and deal with the gateway page. Easy peasy.

No really, thats it. I wish it was more advanced, but it's not.

Stop looking at me like that. Go surf the web on your hotel internets.

Filed under  //   Computers   Firefox   Tip  
Posted July 21, 2008
 

And There was Much Rejoicing

Microsoft announces it's timeline for Windows XP (Or what I call "The death of Microsoft"...hooray!)

Link courtesy of Slashdot

Filed under  //   Computers   Ranting   Software  
Posted March 25, 2008
 

The move to Google Reader

Well I've finally done it, I migrated away from my favorite RSS reader Pulp Fiction. I decided to give Google Reader a whirl for a week to see how I liked it, and boy howdy do I like it. It's not because it's all "flashy" and "blinky", it's simple, clean and easy and worked pretty much like Pulp Fiction worked. Now why the move? Well it follows along with my firm belief that the future of computing is that the software you'll be using everyday will be nearly all on the internet. With this (albeit small) move, it's one less piece of software for me to worry about when(if) A. I move to another computer B. My hard drive crashes causing me to reinstall everything. On top of it all I can export all my subscriptions easily to OPML so if something should happen to Google (they turn evil, I get sick of them, etc) I can easily move someplace else.

Filed under  //   Computers   Interesting Links   Ranting   Software  
Posted April 27, 2007