simon clauson

...watching the sunrise while drinking a cup of Chai brewed to perfection, with a cigarette listening to ambient music.

It's really calming.
This is my sanctuary, my nirvana.

Labels: ambient, aphex twin, autechre, squarepusher, sunrise, venetian snares

Published by Simon Clauson at 6:10 am.

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I realised I haven't really used my right as a blogger to write any kind of reviews of anything. I just seem to be posting stupid jokes about gay couples and spoons. lolz.

I got a new browser the other day, so decided to write something about that.
I've been listening to a lot of music over the past week, so might give you something on that later.
On to the browser review!


Over the past two weeks I have been scouring teh webz looking for a new browser.
After reading a recommendation from Stephen Fry's blog for a Mozilla made browser called 'Project Seamonkey' (which was just basically Netscape 5) and getting very annoyed that the extensions and themes designed for it never worked I went off to find something better -- and I did.

Flock Browser is a Firefox shell designed for Web 2.0 addicts everywhere.
It runs much more smoother than Firefox itself does, as well as having a plethora of useful tools for social network-a-holics built in.

You can enter in all your network details (Facebook, Flickr, Livejournal, YouTube, del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia & Twitter to name a few) and it shows all the recent updates from your contacts.in one sidebar.

You can also set up the browser to use Gmail or Yahoo as a default email and will notify you of any new messages.

Flock also has an in-browser RSS Feedreader similar to that of Safari, which is very useful.
As well as that there is also a Media uploader which uploads to places like Facebook and Flickr.
Another feature allows you to update your blog as well. Which I am using at the moment to write this very review!

Did I mention tabbed browsing yet?

As Flock was built on Firefox you can also use Themes and Addons (although as the browser is quite new not many have been developed for it) as well as use a handful of extensions originally made for Firefox.


I've only been using Flock for two days, but already I have it set as my default browser.
It's still in it's first version, and it's already very impressive.

Labels: Flockbrowser, review, social networking, Web 2.0

Published by Simon Clauson at 3:11 pm.

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John invited his mother over for dinner. During the meal, his mother couldn't help noticing how handsome John's roommate was. She had long been suspicious of Johns' sexual orientation and this only made her more curious.

Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between John and the roommate than met the eye.

Reading his mum's thoughts, John volunteered, "I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you, Mark and I are just roommates."

About a week later, Mark came to John and said, "Ever since your mother came to dinner, I've been unable to find the beautiful silver gravy spoon. You don't suppose she took it, do you?"

John said, "Well, I doubt it, but I'll write her a letter just to be sure." So he sat down and wrote:

"Dear Mother,

I'm not saying you 'did' take a gravy ladle from my house, and I'm not saying you 'did not' take a gravy spoon. But the fact remains that one has been missing ever since you were here for dinner."

Several days later, John received a letter from his mother which read:

"Dear Son,

I'm not saying that you 'do' sleep with Mark, and I'm not saying that you 'do not' sleep with Mark.
But the fact remains that if he was sleeping in his own bed, he would have found the gravy spoon by now.

Love, Mum"

Labels: gay roomates, gravy spoon, Joker

Published by Simon Clauson at 4:39 pm.

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