Tell you my mood? I dare not!

As a brief distraction from my homework:

William Butler Yeats is generally considered to be the greatest 20th century poet of the English language. I find it humorous, then, that during one of the last letters he wrote, after receiving an operation (at age 69) to increase sexual potency, he told his friend that

I shall be a sinful man to the end, and think upon my deathbed of all the nights I wasted in my youth. ~W.B. Yeats

Yeah. How ’bout that.

Excited for Firefox 1.0

Firefox 1.0 was released today. Mozilla.org is completely down, which doesn’t surprise me in the least. I downloaded my copy from
http://mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/win32/en-US/

For those of you still using Internet Explorer, Firefox offers a host of features which leaves Internet Explorer feeling bloated and limited. In addition to tabbed browsing (which, although it took some time to adjust to, I now find incredibly useful), an integrated Google bar (that one can get to quickly using ctrl + e), a vastly improved page search tool and an almost foolproof popup blocker, Firefox also maintains all of the shortcuts and features present in Internet Explorer.

For example, in Internet Explorer one can get to the address bar by pressing F6, and can have the http://www. and .com added to a typed address instantly by pressing ctrl+enter. Firefox takes this a step further. Not only do these shortcuts work in Firefox, but one can also access .org and .net domains with equal ease by using ctrl+shift+enter and shift+enter, respectively.

Of the users I know (myself included) who have tried Firefox, every single person has switched. And there’s a good reason why: Firefox is just a better browser.

It’s 1:14AM. Ben’s making pasta. I’m avoiding homework. Needless to say, it’s Monday morning.

As I write this the Northern Lights illuminate the Bozeman sky. Awesome fails as an adequate descriptor of their overwhelming immensity and splendor. The way that they pulse and grow and flash and move– film could never do justice and I lack the words to describe. It’s been a goal of mine to see the Northern Lights while here in Bozeman, which has been more than filled to satisfaction tonight. The lights have been going for over an hour now, although they seemed to have already reached their peak. I’m overawed.

Mystified.

Yeah. So the egg in the upper left hand portion of my page navigation? It’s blue now. How ’bout that. You’re probably wondering why. I am too…
(not that I mind it being blue– it makes a subtle suggestion of the up-coming Blog! 3.0, but I’m a little concerned by the fact that, to my recollection, I did nothing to change the egg image)