Twisty Passages

I have been using Opera for several months now and have just recently switched back to Firefox because I missed the damn extensions too much. Of course, NOW I miss Opera’s swift performance. If only someone could combine the two. It would be the ultimate browsing superhero: the creative and prolific user-base of Firefox combined with the awesome sleek, streamlined performance of Opera. I find myself going back and forth now, mostly out of guilt.

I’m sorry, Opera! We had a good time together! Really! You GOT me. You understand me. You gave your all to me and I appreciate that. It’s just, you know, Firefox and I had a very deep thing going on for YEARS. You can’t just forget that sort of commitment, that first taste of lusty browser freedom. Firefox was the first cut, baby, and you know what Sheryl Crow says about the first cut…something about it being delivered to Lance Armstrong’s face, or something like that. You know what I mean. You will always be there for me, Opera. You perform the way a real man should, darlin’. But I can’t just abandon Firefox. Not when he’s so…customizable. But don’t worry. I won’t forget you. You’re still there in my bookmarks and on my desktop. I even downloaded the version 9 beta, cause that outfit looks GOOD on you. But don’t ask me to give up Firefox.

I’m simply not a one-browser woman.

Graham Nelson has just released Inform 7. Inform is a design system for writing interactive fiction. From the website:

Three years in the making, Inform 7 is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided both by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world’s best-known writers of IF.

In place of traditional computer programming, the design is built by writing natural English-language sentences

Samples of code can be found here.

I will get absolutely nothing done tomorrow.