I’m using Safari 3 again: it works perfectly. What a pleasure to be able to work with Safari 3; it loads webpages fast, loses no content, doesn’t crash, etc. 

I wonder how long it’ll take Apple to make Safari 4 as good and as stable as Safari 3. Hopefully not too long: Safari 4 (Beta) is much more beautiful than its ancestor.

Last week I published a post praising the new Safari 4 Beta browser. It was, so I wrote, a fast browser and an improvement over Safari 3.

Well, after using it for a couple of days now I take my words back. This browser is horrible, especially for bloggers. It doesn’t work well at all, it seems to make a habit out of crashing when you’re almost done writing a lengthy post and it has trouble loading a variety of webpages. It’s insane.| MORE ›

It seems as though whenever there’s a problem at a local or regional level there’s an uncontrollable urge to fix it with a national solution.  That, Matthew Yglesias says, is because “make sense to take action at the level of a small sub-unit of a large economically integrated country”.| MORE ›

Michael is right, of course.  I didn’t mean to say that running is impossible.  It’s very possible and I think the oncoming years will make it even more possible for Independent-minded politicians to run.  I could be wrong on this, but I hope not.| MORE ›

Thus reports the International Herald Tribune:

European Union leaders rejected protectionism on Sunday to prevent a new “iron curtain” dividing the 27-nation bloc into rich and poor halves during the global economic crisis.

At a summit called to bridge differences over how to handle the crisis, leaders made a new commitment to the EU’s single market — a response to concerns that any protectionist moves to prop up national industries would undermine EU unity.| MORE ›

Iran probably already has enough material necessary to make a nuclear weapon, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen said on Sunday, the Jerusalem Post reports.

“We think they do, quite frankly,” Mullen told CNN regarding the nuclear material amassed by Teheran thus far.| MORE ›

Increasingly more Americans show Congressional Democrats and President Barack Obama that they oppose their economic plans for America by throwing tea bags in the water.

Throwing tea bags in the rivers, sea and ocean is an old American tradition: it dates back to before the founding of the U.S.A. when American colonists threw their tea in the water to protest tax increases (on, among others, tea) enforced by the British government back in London.| MORE ›

Michael, I agree with you when you write that it’s difficult for a blogger to run for office, simply because we’re all too darn honest. We are opinion makers, not policy makers. This means we write down what we think, whether it’s politically correct, or whether our own side likes it, or not.

Having said that, as long as you don’t really cross the line (too often) running for office should still be possible.| MORE ›

President (of doom) Barack Obama warns African Americans to prepare for “tough times.” He told (self appointed) leaders of the African American community in Los Angeles saturday that “tough times for America often mean tougher times for African Americans. This recession has been no exception.”

He told them that the government would do everything in its power to help out but “we know that government cannot and will not succeed alone. It will take all of us stepping up and doing our part.| MORE ›

Broadcasting pioneer Paul Harvey died yesterday. He was 90 years old.