Jason Unger

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Dear Sage,

I'm sorry to tell you … it's over between us.

I've moved on. I'm drinking the Kool-Aid. I'm a Google Reader user now.

You were my first RSS reader, and I'll remember our days fondly. You taught me about the importance of website headlines, and why content should come to me … not the other way around.

But you were almost too easy to use. I could have you open throughout the day and check you constantly. It was a real time suck. How could I ever get anything done if you were constantly teasing me with your new stories?

Google Reader is different. I actually have to go to a page to read stories. And it's made it obvious that I was overloaded with feeds. Believe it or not, I've cut down. I have to, or I'll never keep up.

It's been a difficult transition — I've already failed at it once — but this time it's going to stick. Sage, I'll always remember you as my first RSS reader, but it's time to move on.

Thanks for all the memories.

Your friend,
Jason

I love Firefox, but I hate Firefox.

You know exactly what I'm talking about: you've got a number of tabs open, one of the pages you're visiting decides to freeze, and your entire browser crashes.

Shit.

It has to be the most annoying aspect of the browser.

Why can't I close the one tab that's causing all the problems? Wouldn't that make the most sense?

Not even the "Restore Session" feature helps with this — it will just re-open the problematic tab.

I haven't looked into Firefox3 at all, but hopefully they've taken the time to fix this problem.

John C. Dvorak(.org/blog) complains about this all the time too — maybe they'll listen to him.

(P.S. Dvorak is easily the most entertaining member of TWiT — the show isn't the same when he's not on).

One of the newer features of Firefox is the ability to suggest searches to you when you begin typing in the built in search bar.

It's convenient, especially when you are asking a question that others have surely asked before.

I got a nice chuckle today when I started to type a "can you be" question and Google suggested these possible searches:

- can you be pregnant and still have a period
- can you be pregnant and still have your period
- can you be pregnant and still get your period
- can you be pregnant and have a period
- can you be pregnant and have your period
- can you be pregnant and get your period
- can you be pregnant if you get your period

And this is only after typing "can you be " (notice the space).

Obviously, this is a popular question among Google searchers.

What does it tell us? I hesitate to make any assumptions or judgments based on this, but obviously it gets asked a lot.