And I too have learned all I have, from the “internets”. Though it also does waste a lot of my time.

I also love noticing these neat little things that make life easier, especially in the active free software world. (If we keep simply using “free” in this context, people might stop first interpreting it in the material sense.)

My browser of choice in Ubuntu is Epiphany, but I did notice that search option when using Firefox. Very handy, especially if it’s somehow possible to search via name and description!

With Epiphany, one sort of needs to do a lot on their own, but just as it’s easy to create custom searches in most modern browsers, I’ve got a couple set up. At first, I wasn’t used to how Epiphany has only one text box for address and searches, but now I really like it… Type an address or search term, then if I press up after a search term it will go through Google; down and it will go to Answers.com (dictionary). On my laptop, I’ve been experimenting with a third custom search; the Ubuntu community help documentation.

(By the way, I think that the word you might’ve been looking for is “content,” as opposed to “contempt.” )

I’m the same way with the Web browser, though. I recently set a girl’s PC up with Edubuntu 7.10 (previously running, or should I say “not running,” Windows 98), and her mom doesn’t have Internet access at the moment. I said “there’s a lot of stuff to do on there!” and she replies, “what could possibly be as good as the Internet?” I thought for a moment about how practically everything that I do requires (or “greatly benefits from”) Internet access, but I assured her that there was a lot of neat stuff that she wouldn’t even have imagined. Seriously, Edubuntu (with the addon software disc) is loaded!

And PHP has to wait