If you check out my MySpace profile, you’ll see that I’ve left that STD-ridden site for greener pastures.

Many of my friends have asked me, “But why leave MySpace? It’s so teh awesome!”

Pictures often speak louder than words, because some words are long with many syllables, and difficult to understand. I think this picture makes my argument for me pretty well.

I use Safari as my daily browser, because I like its speed and beautiful typography. However, when I’m doing web development work, there are a ton of useful extensions that you just can’t find for Safari. (Firebug, I’m looking at you.)

Enabling the Safari Debug menu reveals a handy sub-menu called “Open Page With,” populated with all of the browsers installed on your machine. Thus, it’s just a quick visit to this menu, selecting Firefox, and I’m in web developer extensions nerdvana.

However, as Larry Wall once said, “The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.”

No hubris here, but plenty of laziness and impatience. That Debug menu is awfully lengthy, and frankly, I don’t have the time for the extra two seconds it takes to navigate it.

Fortunately, the Keyboard & Mouse Preference Pane comes to the rescue. One can define custom keyboard shortcuts for any application, starting with 10.3. In my case, I assigned ⌘⇧F to “Firefox” (note that you will need to use “Firefox.app” if Show all file extensions is checked in Finder preferences).

Now Firefox bliss is just one quick shortcut away.

So, hopefully today is the day, after actually owning the decal for a year plus, that my Mini Cooper will finally get its Union Jack.

Last night I got 2 hours of sleep due to writing an 8 page term paper. I am about ready to pass out, but unfortunately I cannot enjoy it too much as I have a midterm at 7 that I also need to study for. Sleep deprivation — not just for kittens anymore.

Hopefully Pzizz will at least restore some of my sanity.