marcrullo’s posterous

While not the epic struggle that was Netscape vs. Internet Explorer, I find myself now running three browsers on Mac OS X. Being a web developer, I actually use many other browsers. But as just a normal web user, I have been using Camino for a couple of years now. Recently Firefox and Safari came out with version three of their respective offerings. I've been doing some work with RSS feeds lately and I've had to drift away from Camino more and more because of the less than elegant way that it handles raw XML. In moving to the most recent version of Firefox, I have found almost everything just a bit more advanced than both of the other browsers. But I am still very fond of Camino's icons in the toolbar shortcuts and Safari has got some very nice features, not to mention the fact that when I get a new iPhone I will almost certainly feel the need to sync seamlessly across devices. Preference aside, it is finally very comforting to see that in all cases, the rendering of mark-up and CSS and the execution of client-side scripting is nearly identical across offerings. Let's hope Apple and Microsoft keep Explorer for Mac dead and buried for good.

While not your best Fourth of July weekend weather, for the most part it wasn't a complete wash-out. But then I didn't drop a bundle on a shore house. I might not have been so thrilled with what turned up on Mother Nature's Wheel of Weather, Fortune.

Today marks the beginning of a new approach to my personal expression on the web. Inspired by, and with the help of sites like Facebook and Posterous I am starting an exploration of new tools, technologies, usability patterns and devices to see how I can free myself of the lmitations of location, device and time. I thought that today, the 4th of July, would be a great day to declare the start of this experiment in independence and freedom. Enjoy!

I discovered this strange picture on my phone. It looks like my five year-old son, wtih three year-old sister in tow, got hold of it and took a picture of himself taking a picture. So how did that TiVo logo get there? Spooky. As a big investor in TiVo I hope this is a good omen.