I've been using Google Chrome since the date of it's release [find prior posts here]. I originally committed to using it exclusively for seven days, to run it through the paces and see if I felt it could be a suitable replacement for Firefox.I have found many useful features in Google Chrome. It is the fastest browser I have ever used. It loads quickly, loads pages quickly, and uses very little screen real estate, making every web page you visit more viewable. It integrates well with Google Gears (in fact, Google Gears is part of the installation of Google Chrome). And it has a cool application feature that will create a shortcut to any web page as if it were an application, and will then launch that web page in a version of Chrome that uses even less screen real estate.
There were several things I found that I didn't like about Google Chrome. No extensions, which is a hard thing to adapt to for a long time Firefox devotee. It renders RSS feeds terribly (not at all, really), and makes subscribing in Google Reader just a bit cumbersome. Recently I discovered that the link to create a Google Calendar event from within Gmail does not work at all -- Chrome's Pop Up Blocker kills the process. And I have never been able to get Flash Video (i.e. YouTube) to play reliably within Google Chrome.
With such poor integration between Google's Chrome web browser and their own online services, in addition to the sacrifices I have had to make to switch from Firefox to Chrome, I have switched back. That's right, I am now using Firefox again. Google Chrome is just not ready for prime time. Based on everything that Google does, I'm sure that Google Chrome will improve. But, for now, I just can't settle for the unreliability and sacrifices required to make the switch.That isn't to say that I didn't learn a few things from my time with Google Chrome. The first thing I did upon returning to Firefox was to trim out unneeded extensions, thus speeding up program start up a bit. I also removed the unneeded toolbars (Google Toolbar, Bookmarks Toolbar) to save screen real estate. The Bookmarks are all accessible from Google Bookmarks, requiring only one button on the toolbar, and the Google Toolbar buttons I most use (including Google Bookmarks) have been easily moved into the top toolbar in Firefox, where they take up no additional screen real estate [screenshot below].
I have already found myself feeling more comfortable with my old favorite, Firefox, even though it is still just a bit slower than Google Chrome. But, Firefox promises to have that fixed soon.
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Joe
If you're not interested in the truth, don't watch this.
So with concert tickets in hand, we set off yesterday afternoon to drop the kids off with their grandparents (where they would spend the evening) and we started a much anticipated, long overdue date night. We dropped off the kids and headed to the 
We then got dressed for the concert and went to 
After the awesome dinner, we headed for the concert, where we arrived just in time (literally). My wife mistakenly read the ticket time as the time that doors opened. We pulled up right at 7pm and went inside to find the first song already under way.
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This morning, after breakfast and a little running around town, we went to see the new theatrical release of 
By the way, while I'm sharing pictures, here's another new one of my beautiful wife. One thing I learned from the movie: I definitely don't show my wife how much I appreciate her often enough. She is a wonderful woman, and I am living proof that God is graceful in the fact that she married me.
The weekend is here. Wow, actually a weekend for a change. I mean, I'm actually off work both Saturday 
Tomorrow, I'll be working on my bathroom remodel project in the morning, then heading out to my son's soccer game (and soccer pictures, too). Afterward, while my wife takes the kids to a birthday party, I'll be back to the bathroom remodel project (it's almost ready to lay the new flooring, paint, and install the new vanity).
Why Terre Haute, you ask? Because my wife got us tickets to see 
And while we're away, getting a little time to ourselves, I'm hoping we can find a little time to take in the new movie, 
There will be great conjecture over the weekend about what exactly, if anything, Senator McCain accomplished by suspending his campaign and heading to Washington DC to work on an economic rescue plan. Well, I'll tell you what.
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A while back, I spent a great deal of time 
That would include folks like Jeff Cole, a 40-year-old Indianapolis resident who says complaining to the BBB just put him back at square one. He had griped that a perennially broken laptop from Toshiba needed to be replaced, not just fixed, but the bureau was satisfied after the company offered yet another repair. "I felt abandoned by the BBB," says Cole. Indeed, he got a new computer only after SmartMoney contacted Toshiba, which now says it "regrets" not resolving the case sooner. The BBB has regrets too and says it was "atypical" for it to close the case when it did.
Today is the last day of my seven day challenge to keep track of every waking minute. About two hours of wasted time today, bringing the weekly total somewhere between fourteen and fifteen.
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