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  • Google Chrome: The Novelty is Wearing Off

    Posted on February 20th, 2009 Dan Hughes 1 comment

    I love Google.  They’re a great company.  I have Google Apps on my website, Google everything on my BlackBerry, and I hopped onto Google Chrome as soon as it came out. 

    Knowing it was in the introductory phase, I dealt with certain facts of Chrome, such as the inability to use plug-ins or extensions.  Chrome is a fast little beast, and I enjoy it immensely.

    But recently, I have had need to open Firefox once or twice during my work, and I see some of the extensions that I used to use that I no longer do.  I started getting frustrated with the lack of synchronization of bookmarks (Delicious), the inability to check out advanced details of CSS when working with web design (CSSViewer), and my popups. notifications and other various tweaks (FaviconizeTab, Google Reader Watcher, to name a couple.)

    Google Chrome is nice and clean, but the bottom line is starting to dawn on me:  It is less functional, in its current form, than Firefox, and even Internet Explorer.  The amount of time I’m spending on bookmarks and dealing with CSS in Chrome is far outweighing the time I’m saving in the fast streamlined browsing experience I get from it. 

    My opinion:  Google Chrome can’t compete unless it gets with the program.

    And getting with the program it seems to be.  The net is abound with rumors and such that Chrome is getting extensions eventually.  According to Chromeplugins.org, and confirmed by Google, there seems to be a session dedicated to the development of extensions for the upcoming Google I/O Developer Conference, scheduled for May.

    It’s just a few months away, but my patience is wearing thin.  I’m tempted to jump back to Firefox for now, and come revisit Chrome after the conference.  If extensions start getting coded.

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  • Random Writing – Server Down: Dark Age of Google

    Posted on December 8th, 2008 Dan Hughes 1 comment

    As Twas in dark ages, the world was silent, each ear turned in time from whence the music of speech last echoed.  As the sun sets, shedding its light into the thousands of bright points in the night sky, so did the world of LOLs decrescendo into darkness. 

    It was thence that Lone descended onto the muted earth, and sang, his voice a beacon drawing the confused tweeters into a state of soothe.  "Dost not," he intoned, "to be afraid of the silence, also mean to be afraid of the sound between notes?"

    "Fear not, my virtual brethren, for I shall give voice to the endpoints of silence, so that thou may resound in kind, making the darkness, once again, only necessary to perceive the beauty of our world."  And then, as if by Decree, Google got their shit in gear, and the peasants rejoiced.

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    1. I was so busy today that I did not get a chance to wish my parents a happy anniversary. Mom, Dad, here's to another 27 years! [cerbstarraiser]

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    1. Look at your heroes. Now back at yourself. Now back to your heroes. Sadly, your heroes are not you, but they could look like you. #guildwars [cerbstarraiser]

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    2. Having sex with angels, being fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, waving genitalia from rooftops. Go literature! #ginsberg [cerbstarraiser]

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    1. Tried my hand at Guild Wars PvP, but, uh, didn't fare so well. Time to read a book. [cerbstarraiser]

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    3. Think I'll log on to Guild Wars to flesh out my other characters for a bit. [cerbstarraiser]

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    1. Rule #1 on the usage of the Oxford comma: The guy paying you to write tells you whether you should use it or not. [cerbstarraiser]

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    2. Dislike: "Jobs" posted on the internet by Aflac and WorkForStudents that pose as non-sales jobs, but you go to find they are sales. [cerbstarraiser]

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    1. Nothing ticks me off more than people censoring me on Facebook. Don't like what I have to say? ==> Unfriend. [cerbstarraiser]

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    2. RT @Kyraatje: Love me when I least deserve it because that is when I need it most [cerbstarraiser]

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