Foxed

It's far too late to be up typing this, as I have work tomorrow, but I'm extremely vexed and need to get it out of my system.

Basically, I'm annoyed with Firefox and the way it refuses to play with this extension I use to blog. Using the extension, Scribefire, in Chrome as I am now, I get asked to manually enter login and password details to publish to my backup blog at Wordpress. In Firefox, the same extension redirects me to Wordpress, I click on a button to authorise the extension and I get a message saying that I've entering a "bad login/pass combination".

Given the way that Firefox now takes a noticeably longer time to load pages, especially those with Flash content, this makes me think that I might be using Chrome for personal purposes for a while. I'm still obliged to use Firefox for work so I can keep an eye it.

This saddens me, to be honest. I've bought into Google wholesale for Calendar, e-mail etc but I like the idea of Open-Source software and I'd love it if Firefox was still the best, as it used to be. At the moment, it's not, though.

November Calls...

We lose people as life goes on. It's just the way that it is. We're never quite ready for the jolt, the feeling of sudden emptiness when a loved one passes away and we set about living with the hole in our life.

I say "loved one", really meaning someone close, like a close friend, family member or our significant other. Love casts a wider net than that, though. If we can assume that someone who has made a lasting impact on our lives, without whom we wouldn't be the same, is someone that we can love, then I mourn for a man that I loved.

Last Monday saw the passing of a man who has been widly hailed as one of the most talented musicians that ever graced our world. Jon Lord was a rare talent as a keyboard player and as a composer. Rock, blues and the world of contemporary classical music have lost a giant, whose like we are unlikely to see again. 

Possibly more importantly, everyone who had the pleasure to meet him agreed that he was intelligent, erudite and a gentleman. The world is a poorer place without him in it. My sincere condolences to his family and friends.

Duplication of Content

So I didn't delete the previous post. Sue me.

One thing about browsing the internet is that one tends to stumble upon horror stories about websites and tools that one uses regularly. For example, I read something this morning about Blogger randomly and accidentally deleting people's blogs. Gulp. I may not be here as much as I intend to be but the thought that Twirling might disappear is slightly unnerving.

With that in mind I signed up for a free Wordpress account and imported everything over to it. I plan to run it as a back-up for Twirling here, as I have a clever little blog posting tool that'll ask me if I want to post elsewhere when I click to publish.

I know that a lot of people swear by Wordpress but I'm not convinced. I'm aware that this is my OCD rising to the fore, but I can't get a template over there that'll indent the beginnings of paragraphs, unless I pay for it. Yes, it has some nice features but I want my paragraphs indented!

If any of you good people are Wordpress experts and have any tips, I'd be glad to hear them.

For the time being this site is still the primary one. I'll let you know if it changes.

Playing with Chrome

Pay no attention - I'm just playing with an blogging extension to Google's Chrome browser.

If you're lucky enough to see this post then either you've been very quick, in which case "well done", or you subscribe to my blog's feed, in which case "thank you"!

Paragraph.

Paragraphs have to be indented, of course!

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