Ever since Firefox 4 came out, everyone’s been pressuring me to upgrade to it. Uncharacteristically, I refused because I was satisfied with Firefox 3.something/whateverIwasusing. The biggest noticeable improvement in Firefox 4 was that the top navigation area of the browser was condensed. The only problem was, for me, it wouldn’t be a condensation, it would be an expansion. With Firefox 3, I was using an add-on called Personal Menu that allowed me to already get rid of a row at the top of my browser.

The thing that finally got me to upgrade was the app tab feature. These tabs act as small tabs that contain the websites that you use most often. The best part was that you can’t accidentally close them (which I tend to do frequently). They’re shrunk down in width to just the icon, so it barely takes up any space and allows more space to read the titles of other tabs that you have open.

As of right now, I have three app tabs – one for my email, one for my calendar, and one for Twitter. If any of these get updated (such as receiving a new email or one of the people I’m following tweeting something), the tab glows blue and I notice that something was updated in the tab.

So if you’re like me and procrastinating upgrading to Firefox 4, you should probably do it in the near future to take advantage of the app tabs. And apparently, it’s faster than the previous browser; I haven’t noticed any difference, but I guess it doesn’t matter if I notice it or not if it was already statistically proven.

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Topic #99: Have you ever considered writing a book? If so what would it be about? Make a list of the ideas you want to cover, or the themes it might have. If you’ve never considered writing a book, what other major work have you thought about (a movie? a symphony?). Write a paragraph or two about what you imagine it would be like.

I actually have considered writing a book. One of my friends, Garrett Royce, was thinking about writing a book and he motivated me to write a book as well. I was originally planning on racing him to see who could finish a book first, but I ended up not actually writing a book.

I was planning on writing a book about the fourth dimension and how it acts as a scientific explanation to Christianity. For a while, the articles on my website about the fourth dimension were one of the most popular articles I had. After I finished my presentation of it at school, my entire class was intrigued and a handful of people contacted me afterward for more information. The original information I presented was in short blog post form, and the paper I wrote for my class didn’t turn out how I wanted it to because I had to follow a rubric. I wanted to write a full-length book about it in a cohesive and understandable way, but I ended up not following through with my intentions. I still want to write more about the fourth dimension, but there’s a lot of other things that I have to finish first.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 24

Number of times I did my own laundry: 3