I've always wanted to learn to use LilyPond. My first two attempts are Mosquito Byte Rag [link fixed] (PDF, 148K) and a piano version of the Equal Rites Main Theme (PDF, 117K). There are no dynamic or note markings yet.
I wrote Mosquito Bite Rag thirty years ago. Thirty. Years. Ago. That makes me feel old, but what's worse is that I haven't written anything seriously in over ten years. Even the Equal Rites theme is around fifteen years old.
Recently I upgraded to Firefox 2.0.0.9 on Mac OS X. Ever since then, Firefox has been crashing extremely frequently. Most often, it's when I'm closing a tab---usually GMail.
When the Apple problem reporter app fires up, I get to see the stack. Every time I've checked, the crash has been in the JavaScript engine somewhere (the times I've remembered to check, it's always crashed in libmozjs.dylib).
I just reproduced the problem frighteningly easily: after a crash I restarted Firefox. I then went to GMail. After the page loaded, I closed the single tab containing GMail. Crash. Ouch.
What is keeping me from switching to Safari or Opera? At this point, familiarity and Google's bookmark synchronizer. The synchronizer has its own problems, though.
Today my GMail account was upgraded to the new interface. The contacts management interface has been improved, but that's not what I'm excited about.
On a whim, I decided to review the keyboard shortcuts found at http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6594. Guess what? Google has added "#" as a keyboard shortcut for "delete". YAY! They've also added a bunch of other keyboard shortcuts I haven't seen before: mark as (un)read, archive and previous/next, and undo.
As a die-hard keyboarder, the lack of a "delete" shortcut has been most annoying. I've been waiting for this ever since GMail launched.
Thanks, Google.
