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On why I love Google Chrome

Kris — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:31:53 +0000

As I was editing this theme and reorganizing a few sitely things, it struck me.

Holy shit, I love Google Chrome.

I’ve been using it for a while, but just yesterday is when I really started using it excessively and bogging it down with 150 tabs open at one time. She ran like a dream.

Don’t get me wrong, there will always be a special place in my heart for Firefox. That was the first browser that I experienced outside of Internet Explorer and it changed the face of the internet forever for me. (A little too dramatic?) But the add-ons and extensions were bloating up my web browsing experience a little too much. I guess at the time I thought I really really needed them in order for the internet to function.

But there are things I actually dislike about Chrome as well. Like the fact that you can not print a simple selection from a page. The very thing I do, like, every single day. Little things that the developers probably thought to themselves “Eh, no one’s going to give a shit about this.” Well, Google, I DO GIVE A SHIT.

In conclusion: Chrome is the Leonardo DiCaprio to my Kate Winslet. And Firefox is like, her mom in Titanic. You know, always there but overly presumptuous and annoying sometimes. But still ok.

Weighing in on WordPress

Kris — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:59:23 +0000

This is a video response to both Jenn’s blog post (Why I use WordPress) and Sarah’s blog post (WordPress is NOT a trend). This is my very FIRST video published to the internet, and I’m a long winded girl, so this is a looong video.

I apologize for the following things in this video:
-Looking away and/or rolling my eyes for no reason other than I’m weird.
-Overuse of the words ‘blogging platform’
-Constantly saying ‘um’ and ‘ya know’ after everything.

These are the annoying things that I didn’t realize I was doing until playback. ^_^

It’s like screaming down the slide

Kris — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:00:17 +0000

It’s so hard to express that sudden feeling of relief when you finally, FINALLY read, reply to, organize, and delete EVERY SHRED OF EMAIL IN YOUR INBOX. It is simply euphoric. If I had to describe to someone how it feels for me, personally, I’d have to liken it to gliding precariously down one of those old-school jagged metal red-hot slides on the school playground. Yeah it was hot and would melt your flesh at some points, but that FEELING. Leaving everything behind with no worries! Nothing could get you moving faster than wearing a pair of polyester shorts on those slides. These days, they’re all plastic-y and probably covered with bubble wrap equipped with an inner-cooling core while a team of mothers and medical specialists wait alongside a nearby ambulance ready to catch the little heathens as they come screaming down the thing. However, I’m just speculating here.

BUT I DIGRESS. Horribly, in fact. I mean, I got so far off the subject there that I had to re-read the first couple of sentences to remember what I was talking about. But yes, the email! I’ve been putting off taking care of it for weeks and it was just piling up and piling up. After seriously considering clicking ‘delete all’ to just be done with it already, I actually felt better taking the time to go through it and decide it’s importance. Now I feel all motivated to do things and stuff. Today, my email, but tomorrow…the world!

For now, I’m off to attract even more email by searching for freelance writing job prospects. So far, I got nothing. I once read somewhere that Craigslist is a ‘wonderful’ source for writing gigs, but all I have gotten is a crap ton of spam and suspicious looking emails. I must be doing it wrong. Someone please share with me your secrets!