Chrome

I have been using Firefox almost exclusively for quite some time. Occasionally I will use IE but not very often. I had read some interesting things about Chrome but was unable to try it as it requires at least Win XP and my main computer was still running W2K. All that changed a few weeks ago. Lightning took out my W2K box along with the old Dell Optiplex that was running Ubuntu and an emachine that I used for software testing.

I used my Dell laptop docked for awhile and then I came upon a nice Dell GX280 on ebay at a great price. It came with Win XP installed. After getting it set up with the things I needed, I added Chrome. Chrome is fast and according to the Windows Task Manager is relatively light on memory usage. Granted, I have only been using it for a couple of day but so far I think it is the best browser I have seen. I can't wait for them to come out with the Linux version so I can try it on my eeePC 900.

Solution to the Jefferson County Problem.

In the 1860's in central Alabama, portions of Montgomery, Autauga, Coosa, and Tallapoosa counties were taken and formed into a new county that bore the name Elmore. In Virginia, cities exist separate from the surrounding counties. If I am not mistaken, Richmond VA in not in a county but is a separate entity from its adjacent counties.

If counties can cede portions of themselves to form new counties, then it would seem that existing counties could be split up and ceded to the counties that surrounding them. If cities can exist outside of counties in Virginia then it would seem that cities could exist outside counties in Alabama.

My solution to the current Jefferson County mess is to let the city of Birmingham and any of its adjacent municipalities that chose to join it form a Birmingham City that is not located in any county. Then take whats left of Jefferson county and annex it on to the various counties that currently surround Jefferson county. Give the city of Birmingham representation in the legislature similar to what a county would have. Then the state of Alabama would have 66 counties, 1 autonomous city and the corrupt, inept, embarrassing mess that is currently Jefferson county would cease to exist.

Nativity and Naivety

For no other reason than it is Sunday afternoon and I don't have much going on, I decided to look up the words nativity and naivety online. Here are the the definitions I found, or at least my interpretation of their definitions:

Nativity - Birth, especially the place, condition and circumstances of being born.

Naivety - The belief that there are substantive differences between Democrats and Republicans.