david sidlinger

I’ve migrated my blog to my slice. Have I mentioned that Slicehost kicks ass?

This marks the end of my third attempt to use Safari as my default browser. I just can’t seem to tear myself away from Firefox.

The main reason is extensions. Safari doesn’t seem to be nearly as extensible as Firefox or even Internet Explorer. I can’t find the equivalent to plug-ins that I use on a daily (hourly?) basis like del.icio.us and Firebug. If I am completely off-base, please let me know.

There are quite a few things I like about Safari. It does seem to be a lot snappier, and, being a Cocoa application, it integrates with OS X and it’s services, like Summarize, tightly. I also get the drawbacks and slight bugginess of Firefox, but I just can’t bring myself to give up all the additional functionality. I really wish Apple would take a long, hard look at the extensibility available in Firefox and realize that it is the main force driving users to ditch Safari.

I was lucky enough to get an invitation to Pownce from Patrick. I like some of the ideas in Pownce (e.g. file sharing, threaded replies), and it will be interesting to see if they can overcome the inertia of twitter to have some success in the micro-blogging space.

One thing that is nice about Pownce is the client they have written using the Adobe AIR runtime, which functions a lot like Twitterific. I did find one bug, though. If you have colons (and maybe other “special” characters) in your password, you get an error when logging in. Probably something to do with URL encoding. If you change your password to alphanumeric characters, it works like a champ.

I’ve migrated my blog to my slice. Have I mentioned that Slicehost kicks ass?