I am thinking of committing something that will be seen by some as a betrayal ... I may quit using Firefox ... NO no no ... I'm not thinking of going back to a Microsoft browser. Let me tell you how it happened that I arrived at this sticky wicket in life.

Billy is sick so we stayed home all weekend. Being a sweet wife, I let him have his pc to play with. His has power and I use it during the week, mine is old and decrepit but it does ok as long as I stay away from streaming media. Well since he was in no mood to create technology, he went into user mode. So see ... this is all his fault ... but well maybe a little bit of the fault belongs to Firefox and Opera.

Saturday, Billy started out in advanced user mode. He downloaded the latest and greatest Opera Internet Browser.

He's say "Opera does yadda, yadda, chat."
I said "well I'm happy with iMeem right now."

He: "Opera yadda yadda tiles tabs in same window."
I: "Well, that could be useful some times."

He: "Opera yadda yadda email."
I: "Well, I did like that (I last used Opera two years ago.) but I've already got Thunderbird all set up."

"Opera yadda yadda gestures already."
I: "Well, now that's nice, but how customizable are they?"

But I came undone when a second man's voice started telling me about Opera's voice feature. Opera Reads! ... and it was reading to me about how Opera Accepts Voice Commands!! We couldn't try the voice commands out because the mic on his pc doesn't work. We'll have to buy one. But the reader worked exceptionally well!

You know it's one thing for a program to let me chat with you. It's quite another when a program chats with me!

I doubt that I will drop Firefox right away ... I'm becoming a user slow to give up on a program that I've already trained .... but ... that said ... I'm going to go download Opera and see how well it can read this to me and maybe I can just hear where I have awkward phrasings ... like in this run-on sentence. Then I'm going to browse on over to some essays that I've been wanting to get to read. Opera can just read them. To me. I will let my eyes take a break and I will go wash dishes ... or ... maybe ... just sit in the lotus position and listen.

And would someone let me know how well Adobe does at reading aloud? I've hear the version available for Windows XP has "Read to Me" as an option via the mouse's right click menu.

And, Monday's are suppose to be my "Photography Day" -- where I actually just play on BetterPhoto.com and play with my own photos. But since today is "Muesday" (a compression of Monday and Tuesday), I'm only going to spend part of my day on photography. So ... I might actually change out my above "Occasional Image." It's just always difficult to leave the beach. Always.

What are you doing with your Muesday and how do you feel about Muesday's in general?