My Wife's Blog

I got Alexa a domain name for xmas. She likes to to craft and eventually wants to get more involved in the community and sell her stuff online. We figure a blog is the first step towards this goal.

I set up my blog with blogger. I mostly picked it because I could use google to log in. It's worked well for me so far, but wordpress seems to be the software of choice for most people now.

Wordpress is definitely flashier. It does a lot more, like integrated stats, more plugins and features in general. It's an OpenID provider and allows trackbacks too.

I came across a bug with Safari and paragraphs right off the bat, which was very disappointing. If it had been Alexa working on it without me to help her, she probably would have given up blogging or looked for other software.

I'm thinking about moving over, but I'm not all that convinced that it's sufficiently better to be worth while switching. Plus I'd have to fire up Firefox every time I wanted to post :(

An Update to My Safari Crashes

I never got around to updating my Safari Adventure.

About 2 hours after reseting Safari, it started crashing. I reset Safari again, and it lasted about 10 minutes before it started crashing again. I went through various dances, like shut down safari, start safari, reset safari. That didn't work. I tried shut down, start, reset, shut down and start up. It continued to crash.

I gave up. I'm now using Firefox at work and Safari when I get home. As soon as I'm not using a proxy server, Safari is rock solid.

Safari Crashes with a Proxy

I've been using Firefox on my mac. This is mostly because I feel like I can't do without all my plugins for various things. It kinda freaks me out to not have things like the AWS tools (s3fox and EC2 UI), various proxy tools, YSlow, Firebug, etc.

Yesterday I went to start up Parallels, but it was running really slowly. When I fired up Activity Monitor, it was mostly Firefox kicking CPU and Memory butt. I thought I'd give Safari a try.

In Tiger, Safari was useless because it didn't have tabs. I can't imagine working without them. Now that Safari has them, I can at least be someone productive.

It's nice. Safari is very light weight and fast. It also doesn't use 10% of my CPU sitting idle, nor does it each all of my memory up. 

It worked great yesterday, but this morning it was crashing every couple of minutes. One of my colleagues has had the same problem. The crashes were bothering him so much he actually borrowed my Tiger CD so he could downgrade. After restarting Safari 15 times this morning, I can understand where he's coming from.

I called Apple Support. As usual, they pointed out some feature I had know idea about that seems to have fixed the problem.

In the Safari menu, there is a "Reset Safari..." option. Since I did that, I haven't had any crashes.

I'm a little skeptical. I bet that when I get home and I use Safari without the proxy and then come back to work, Safari will start crashing again. With the weekend coming up, I probably won't know till Tuesday :(