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A couple of friends posted a while back on a message board I belong to, saying that they’d downloaded the most recent version of Firefox and that it was causing them trouble, and asking if anyone else had had a similar problem. I hadn’t yet downloaded the update, but assumed they were just overreacting. It’s easy to yell at Firefox for things but I’ve always been very pleased with it.

Then I downloaded the update myself and realized that they were right. Within five minutes after I had downloaded it, it froze. I restarted it and it worked for a while, then froze again. I restarted it again, and then it froze when I tried to quit it — after the window had closed, and then went on to suck up a remarkable amount of processor power for being, y’know, frozen; it actually jammed up my computer to the extent that other programs began sticking. (Read more…)

Yes, it’s been some time since I posted here and I need to confess to a terrible attack of lack of inspiration over the past two months. I’ve been feeling a little disconnected from the work I was trying to get done and it made it hard to post anything of particular import (besides the “I’m still not thrilled about the iPad” post that I considered writing several times).

In the last few days however, I finally got back some motivation to start doing things, and actually put together a whole pile of stuff for my Design 365 blog (which I was/am also behind on). This burst of energy didn’t come out of nowhere, though, and I can actually pin down precisely what caused it. I went over and took a peek at Dribbble, which has only just recently opened for public consumption. It’s a forum for designers and, as near as I can tell, pretty exclusive as to who can get in, and, while very intimidating to look at, also gave me a bit of a jolt. I was suddenly eager to get good enough to get these people’s attentions, and more to the point, I suddenly wanted feedback. (Read more…)