[Web4lib] RE: Browser ennui

[Walker, David]

I think browsers have probably reached the same point as operating systems.  

They used to be interesting in and of themselves.  But now I just want them to work consistently and reliably, and then get the heck out of the way so I can go about the _actual_ tasks I want to do.

--Dave

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David Walker
Library Web Services Manager
California State University
http://xerxes.calstate.edu
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From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Moore, John D. [Moorej at cafc.uscourts.gov]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:00 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] Browser ennui

My problem with Firefox is not ennui, but a single pathetic lament: Why
is the official 64-bit version of Firefox taking so long?

While I'm waiting, I'm pondering Pascal's jottings on ennui:

"There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose,
without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that
he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent
nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul
ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair."  --Blaise Pascal

John D. Moore
Assistant Librarian for Public Services
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
202-312-5503



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