I received some Lincoln Logs from my cousins Danielle and Kai. I love them!

I have been using Firefox by Mozilla for a week now, and really love it. It’s fast on my pokey 266mhz Windows98 laptop, and amazing on my 2.4ghz XPpro machine. It has most of the features of Opera, such as popup blocking and tabbed layout, but it seems more lightweight and streamlined. I don’t need Opera’s chat feature or mail client, and if I can save some vertical space by not dealing with the ads, that is a bonus too. (especially on my 800×600 laptop)

I am also now using Thunderbird by Mozilla for my email client. My server is configured as IMAP4, so I can pretty much use any client I want and get the same experience. (Except perhaps Opera, which seems to have a couple issues with IMAP at the moment) Like it’s counterpart, Firefox, Thunderbird is a stripped-down app, and runs fast and doesn’t have all the bells and whistles. Just simple, clean design, and great performance. I used to use Mozilla 1.7 for email, which is very similar, but figured I’d get rid of the Mozilla “suite” and do Firefox/Thunderbird instead. Mozilla has a chat feature, I think, and html composer which I will never use, so why install it?

Bay and I have been enjoying Teen Titans on Cartoon Network a bunch lately. It’s really fun. The animation is cool, the characters are neat, and the theme song is by Puffy. 🙂 I bought Bay a couple Teen Titans toys for his birthday. I hope he likes them! His favorite Titan is Beast Boy.

The headline at CNN.com:

BREAKING NEWS

Federal Reserve boosts key short-term interest rate by one-quarter percentage point, its first rate increase in four years. Details soon.

It may just be me, but I think the red, in-your-face banner should be reserved for events like 6.7-scale earthquakes or planes flying into landmarks.

Finished “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” last night at about 1:30am. What a great book. Next is the Ackroyd book…

It’s 9am, and someone just cooked something in the kitchen here at work, and it smells sooooo good. I hate when they do that! Now I’m starving, and my cup of coffee is barely sufficing.

At least win one of these games up in SF! It’s bad enough that you lost first place to the Giants, but a four-game sweep? Please don’t let it happen…

I am a huge fan of eBooks. I own a Dell Axim X5 PocketPC, and my favorite use for it is for reading eBooks. For those that aren’t familiar with them, eBooks are digital versions of a normal books. You can buy eBooks from lots of online retailers, such as eBooks.com or Amazon. Not only are novels digitized, but you can find magazines, ezines, and reference books in digital format. There are still many books that are not available digitally, but the number is growing.

Before I tried it, I was a bit skeptical about reading an eBook on a PocketPC. I had looked at a couple eBooks on CRT monitors, and I couldn’t see myself looking at a monitor screen to read a book. It just didn’t seem right. I guess it felt like overkill to have a computer and monitor running, using up all that power, when you could just open a paperback, not use any power, and not feel like you are ruining your eyes by being so close to a “tv screen”.