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Firefox and Blogger

Ok, so I'm still playing around with Blogger and my software, to see what I can do. Blogger is web based, so software shouldn't be an issue, except that I am toying a lot these days with a browser called Firefox. I had been using Explorer for a long time previously but a week or so ago I started to play with it to see if I could make browsing my bookmarks easier. I had some success but no home run. A peek at Download.com's browser section lead me to Firefox and it was a go almost from the beginning. Firefox is smart, stripped down and clean. It uses tabs intelligently, unlike Netscape, which in which I discovered three different places to conduct a search from. Firefox has one search box and you can easily add as many search engines to it as you like, including Google, Google Images, Amazon books, Amazon DVD's, Wikkipedia, and... well. You get the idea. I was beginning to get hooked. Another big (BIG)! point in Firefox's favour was the Bug Me Not extension, which when installed will give you a name and password for virtually any of those websites that require registration. That would be, well, most everything these days. Heck, the Saskatoon Daily Dog has a registration racket going these days. Now, returning to the subject of Blogger, I wanted to see if there was a Firefox extension that would simulate the ease of the Googlebar's "blog this" button. Sure enough, with one tiny download, I'm doing this entry via Firefox's "blog this." It works via a right click instead of a button, but otherwise seems the same. Whoo-oo, as Homer might say. Well, there will be a lot more to learn, I'm sure. So I will just say hello to some of the people who might see these pages in the next few days... A big "Hi!" to my wife Rebecca, to my co-workers Carole and Iris (how's Maple Ridge?), to my mother in law Inga, and to an old friend and co-worker I bumped into a few weeks ago, on my route or all places... Hi Yvonne!

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Rebecca said…
Nice site :) Looking forward to hearing what's rattling around in your head while you're off delivering mail all day! Love, R.
8/26/2004 09:11:00 pm
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