After jumping on the FireFox 3 bandwagon, like millions of other intrepid internauts[1], I have spent the better part of the week trying to get it to work exactly how I want. There were a number of small quirks that really really, no really, bugged me.
The main problem was the consistency with which FireFox3 logged me out of everything every time I closed it or it crashed. It was becoming old so very quickly. Today, I think I spent about 4 hours poking and prodding a whole raft of preferences and addons trying to find which setting would restore my ability to stay logged into delicious and citeulike and gmail and wordpress and everything else. I think I narrowed it down to a TOR plugin, which since I rarely use, I uninstalled. Now at least I seem to stay logged in. I’ll see how that goes.
Which brings me to my next realisation for the day. I spend way too much time tinkering with technology instead of writing about it. This includes what I do and learn within (and about) the screenface[2] and what I work out about how people learn and teach with technology[3].
Thus we have a post about learning and thinking with technology. Maybe I should start a category named that and then actually use it to post.
- okay, that word sucks, big time, meh, read the rest of the post [↩]
- To really grok what I mean by ‘screenface’, you may have to read a few sections of my PhD … until the paper is finally accepted somewhere. [↩]
- I suppose that also includes the flexible and the blended and the downright contrary versions of learning [↩]
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learning, technology