25 Random Things About Me
I’ve been tagged a number of times by the “seven things” and now the “25 things” meme going on around the Internets. I figure that 25 > 7, so 25 things must be a superset of seven things. Hurray for killing two birds with one stone.
I’m supposed to put the “rules” here, so here they are:
Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you.
Taggers:
(maybe more - I’ve been putting this off for a bit)
Now for 25 Things:
- I love to learn new things.
- I’m oblivious to a lot of things in life. Some people equate that to me not caring, which is mostly wrong.
- I’m shy, but if you know me, you might think I’m lying.
- At one point, I forced myself to not have an opinion on a lot of things. This is now pretty natural. It is how I reduce stress in my life (don’t sweat the little stuff). As a result, I sometimes say that apathy is my anti-everything.
- I love my job. I really really do.
- I have never been to a concert. Ever.
- I only drink mixed drinks and wine. With that said, I barely ever drink.
- I love to read Science Fiction, but never make time to go get a book to read. Once I get the book I tear through it though.
- I have an incredibly strong inability to lie. My only defense is not answering a question, or omitting information.
- I can’t cook. I’m working on fixing that.
- When I was young, I wanted to be an astronaut. I even went to space camp. Yes, it was awesome.
- If you ask me a direct question, you’ll get an honest and sincere answer. You may also not like the answer. Or, you’ll get no answer (see #9).
- I like random. I try to do something random every day. Keeps me on my toes.
- I always have too many projects I’m “active” in. I’m working on changing that to make my life more manageable.
- I have officiated soccer since I was 12. I don’t know why, but I like doing it.
- I love humor. I employ it as often as possible (goes great with #13).
- I love running. I don’t get to do it often enough.
- It’s easy to gain my trust, and it’s easy to lose it. Getting it back is near impossible.
- I’m generally open about myself, but there are many things that I am extremely reserved about.
- I am essentially blind without contacts or glasses.
- I don’t drink coffee. This tends to surprise people.
- I have been on fire. Literally.
- I often say things without thinking. Hilarity ensues.
- I’m not big on talking on the phone. This probably has something to do with #23.
- I love living in California, but it’s made me soft when it comes to fluctuations in the temperature.
Now for the folks I’m tagging. List of names ordered randomly by my computer. For the record, 25 people is a lot of people.
- Rachel Brown
- Alex Vincent
- Ben Newman
- Nicki
- Mike Connor
- Robert Chitoiu
- Dan Witte
- Mike Haslett
- Heather Wilsher
- Courtney Brooks
- Stephanie
- Andy Cross
- Cesar
- Jason Wojciechowski
- Justin Scott
- Robyn Brooks
- Stevie Staeger
- fantasai
- Kate Jones
- Matt Martin
- Blake Kaplan
- Paul Hayward
- Emily Samuels
- Heather Widgren
- Matt Poling
(If you want your last name removed from my website, just let me know.)
Finer-grained Controls for Clearing Private Data
I semi-recently did some work to add a nice new feature for Firefox 3.1. The feature is “Forget About This Site,” and is a nice addition to our Clear Private Data and Private Browsing features. Any time you view a history entry (in the history sidebar or in the Library) you get a handy context menu item:
That’s right! You can now selectively clear data from a domain (and all of it’s sub domains) with two clicks of the mouse! This tries to clear everything we know about a site, with the exception of bookmarks. There are still a number of issues pending with this to make it even more powerful (help wanted!), but as it stands, it’s pretty nice. I am, of course, biased.
All this work made it in for Firefox 3.1 beta 2, but I’ve been lazy and am just now getting to it.
Artistic Blog Representation
I wanted to see what I was writing about looked like after reading KaiRo’s post about his site. So, I jumped on over to Wordle (which sadly uses Java), and generated this:
Clearly, I write a lot about Mozilla, and as of late, performance has dominated that topic. It’s funny, because some time this week I was going to write another blog post about performance too…
Side note: It’d be really cool if someone made a Wordpress widget that generated this.
WordPress Upgraded and a New Theme
I just got done upgrading WordPress again. I was a bit out of date, but no longer! I also got tired of iTheme, so I’ve gone and grabbed Whitespace by Brian Gardner. I’m not totally happy with it, so I expect to be making some modifications, but I like it a lot better than iTheme.
Let me know if anything seems broken…
On Freedom
They may take our land, but they can’t take away our freedom!