Firefox sucks (sometimes)

Just to make sure every Firefox "sucks-rocks-o-meter" gets this right: Firefox sucks

Honestly, this is mostly cathartic; I actually like Firefox - when it's running! I just lost a lengthy blog posting when Firefox locked up all my tabs and windows when I went off to research a link in another tab. I thought "save early and often" was an admonition for crappy software (like that from M$).

What's up with Firefox locking up everything when it's off talking with DNS and stuff? I'm a self-professed moron when it comes to things computing, but I would have thought that things like a DNS lookup might be done in a separate thread...

Serial Comma Rocks!

As a long-time advocate of the serial comma (i.e. the comma placed between the penultimate item in a comma-separated list and the "and" which separates the last two items) on purely syntactical grounds (it breaks the established pattern where the comma delimits items in the list), I've endured continual deletions of serial commas by well-meaning proofreaders and editors (and almost as ardently replaced them) for many years. It was with great glee that I found the a getitwrite blog entry, referencing two legal syle guides recommending the use of the serial comma (many thanks to cafeaulait.org's "recommended reading" section for the link!).

Some less defensible writing traits of mine are favoring run-on sentences and excessive (to the point of incomprehensibility) use of parenthetical comments, but that's another topic...

Cheers,

Geoff S.