I upgraded my web browser to the OmniWeb 4.1 Public Beta yesterday. I just used it for my morning blog read and it worked really well. My thoughts:

• Tables do seem to load faster. This was a big beef I had from the old version.
• CSS support is much better. I think I finally saw Beau‘s site as intended!
• I love the little drop downs on the forward and back buttons that give you an abbreviated history. Absolutely necessary for the way I surf.
• Okay, this is the one negative. When I hit certain sites (like Chris‘s and Max‘s), the Download Manager would get tripped and download some bogus “index.html” document to my desktop, and the original page would never appear in my browser. At first I thought it was happening on sites where the default document isn’t “index.html”, but Max’s site disproved that. I have a similar problem using IE 5.1 too, where certain sites (like web-goddess) cause the browser to think it’s downloading a gzipped file. Has anyone else had a problem like this? What the heck is going on?

Anyway, the positives greatly outweigh the negatives. If you use OmniWeb, I suggest upgrading.

Okay, there’s this job that I really, really want, and I’ve made it through the first round. I don’t wanna tell you guys what it is yet for fear I’ll jinx it. But I’ve got to answer some questions for them and I’ve hit a wall. Can you help? I need to know how “my friends would describe me”. You guys are my friends, right? What would you say? Answers quickly, please; I’m sending this off in twelve hours.

It is Christmas? Because I feel like Santa Claus! GoddessBlog is now ready for the general public. I’ve still got a few modules to write, but the basic stuff is all there. Have fun, kids!

Matt has provided the perfect link for those rainy afternoons when you can’t be bothered to work: Cartoon Over-Analyzations. I’ve spent half an hour flipping through it and I haven’t even scratched the surface. Be sure and hit the discussions on The Brave Little Toaster’s gender and Walt Disney’s “ass fetish”. Fascinating stuff.

Just when I think that Jann has left the Internet and is never going to update his blog again, I catch him leaving comments at Meg‘s site! He’s holding out on us!

Shocking! Moire pointed me to an article about some Melbourne shop selling handbags depicting the World Trade Center attacks. I’m not upset so much about their insensitivity, but rather their horrible ugliness. Honestly, who would carry such a thing? It looks like someone Bedazzled a briefcase.

(Incidentally, Moire‘s new and improved GoddessBlog-powered weblog is up and running! She’s changed her DNS information, so you should be able to see the new version sometime in the next day or two!)

Today’s Act of Domestic Goddesshood was the creation of crock pot beef stew. I’d never actually made it before, and to be honest, my favorite kind is good ol’ Dinty Moore. I had real difficulty finding a recipe that looked like it would emulate Dinty’s chunkified, canned goodness. I finally settled on this one, since I had most of the ingredients. It was good, but the tomato soup base was still unsettling to me. I want nummy beef gravy! Anybody have a good stew recipe? Of course, I won’t be able to use it til next winter, seeing as how I made so much of this batch we’ll be eating it for the next ten months…

Incidentally, I had no idea that Dinty Moore beef stew was such an icon for the survivalist set. Check out this Google search. Half the results are for Y2K nutcases discussing supplies for their fallout shelters!

Hee! The sex shop around the corner has a new holiday message on their chalkboard: “BUY MOM SOMETHING SHE REALLY NEEDS!”

I told you about the missing wealthy Melbourne couple, right? Well, they found them dead and buried in a shallow grave, and now it looks like the youngest son did it. This could be a great true crime novel. Watching it unfold in the media has just been fascinating.

Roger Ebert has pre-emptively ruined my entire week. *sulk*