BlogFlockI use Windows, macOS, Linux and Android on a regular basis, and these are the web browsers I like better than Chrome, Edge and Safari. (I don’t have any iOS devices, so I can’t really speak to how well these run on there.)
I’ve been quite happy with …
Rosemary Mosco
★★★★★
I like birds, but I’m not really a birder (checks page 135). Oh. Um. Yeah. Never mind.
*ahem*
It’s a delightful collection of comedic “definitions” of various terms one might encounter while watching birds or interacting with people who do. For instance “American Robin” refers to a…
Sue Burke
★★★★☆
Usurpation is a very different book than the two that preceded it. It’s set entirely on Earth, for one thing, and for another it deals with people and violence on a much larger scale. The human colony on Pax is too small to afford people killing each…
★★★☆☆
I recently discovered that SeaMonkey is still around! It’s the continuation of the pre-Firefox Mozilla Suite, itself the successor to Netscape Communicator.
It really feels like a throwback to the early 2000s. Partly because it’s an all-in-one suite combining a web browser, email, news reader (with both…
As part of checking out the current status of SeaMonkey, I wanted to see if its email client can still connect to Gmail after the move to OAuth2. And it turns out it can!
I had to create a placeholder account first, then edit the config manually, because SeaMonkey doesn’t…
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★★
I first read the original Earthsea triology during my personal “golden age of science-fiction” (i.e. around 12), and I find myself re-reading it about once a decade or so, along with the later novels.
After downgrading the Surface Go 2 back to Windows 10, I enrolled it in Microsoft’s extended security updates program to keep it current through October 2026. I was surprised to find that I was eligible for the free tier because somewhere along the line I’d synced my settings on…
The Surface Go 2 is a surprisingly good Windows 10 tablet!
It’s also a frustratingly slow Windows 11 tablet. I got the go-ahead from the rest of the household to reinstall Windows 10 on it.
My big concern was that the Surface Go 2 is a very specific hardware device,…
Every once in a while I’m reminded of SyFy’s notoriously bad TV adaptation of Earthsea, and think, maybe I should watch it just once, like the Star Wars Holiday Special, to see not just how bad it is but how it’s bad. And then I remember I have…
★★★★☆
A park with open grassy area and drought-tolerant gardens, a few picnic tables, basketball and tennis courts, and playground. Ample parking, clean restrooms and a drinking fountain/water bottle-filling station at the community center. All the facilities are new within the past year or so. Not sure what’s going on…
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