BURP! Microsoft’s virtual earth has rolled out of the door — and right by me. It looks cool from all the reviews I’ve seen, but like some stubborn DRM’d music player refuses to play nicely with other browsers (such as Firefox, both the boon and bane of my surfing experience). Mat Ingram seems to like it – but from what I also see, it only supports a few major American cities off the bat. Not a deal maker enough for me to migrate to MSIE 7.0 to view pretty pictures.

BURP! The Zune was released last week — am I the only who thinks it looks hot? And has anyone seen videos of the interface? It teh rocks! Fanboyish drool aside, it does seem like Microsoft has screwed its currentl customers of MSN Music Store, as, remarkably, Zune does not support its Microsoft’s own PlayForSure. Sounds like they’re really betting the boat that a) the Zune is going to be a massive hit and b) the number of current subscribers / purchasers of music from MSN Music store are either i) blogospherically impotent and / or ii) will be happy purchasers of the Zune and/ or iii) will be content to not port over their music to the Zune

Well, Firefox 2 was released to much fanfare and there are a few improvements that have been catalogued by folks much more qualified than myself — which I am enjoying.

Perhaps the most helpful is being able to close my tabs without having to right click –> close.

The anti-phishing elements, auto-completion feature, persistent sessions are all splenda on the cake as far as I’m concerned; it tastes ok, but its not really all that filling — or appropriate for my tastes (or uses).

The most annoying? How tabs don’t automatically shrink, but the tab line “scrolls” with arrows the more you open up. There’s a way around this, but I’m too lazy to implement it right now.
Actually, I’m sorry. Its not THE most annoying thing about firefox.

The most annoying feature of Firefox is that I am still running into memory leak problems; its not uncommon that the footprint STILL balloons out to consume all available RAM on this poor aging behemoth of a PC.

Moreover — in the “new” annoying feature category – in the two weeks since I’ve installed it, Firefox has crashed at least 5 times.

Five times!

It seems like there are yet other issues with Firefox 2 — including a denial of service bug; other people seem to think that an awful lot of kool aid is going around as well.

(If anyone has a solution to the memory leak issues I’d love to hear it.)