I’ve been checking out the Safari 4 beta. Normally I’m unimpressed with Safari, but this one feature grabbed me, called “top sites.”

Basically, it generates a list of the sites you go to most often and displays them in this completely unnecessary 3D grid. It’s incredibly handy to have your top nine sites on your home page, and I found myself using Safari just for that purpose these last few days.

However, I can’t get rid of Firefox. I need del.icio.us integration, the auto-play-in-high-def Greasemonkey script for YouTube, and countless other addons that ease my web experience.

So, I decided to design my own Top sites.

Safari:

My version (available here):

And look, it even validates!

It’s designed for my MacBook’s screen resolution, so it might look blown out on your (probably more massive) display.

Not enough hours in the day, I wanted to finish my 2008 DoAR edition and have it spinning through LuLu’s presses tonight.

But I still have to do a bunch of edits for Josh’s site. I like my new start page, I’m pretty sure it will evolve into something even more awesome. Also, the background is from InterfaceLift.

I’ve started to take glucosamine to maybe somehow help my knee…my health problems seem to be multiplying, my hands hurt 24 hours a day now from typing at work.

However, the one thing I can do is read, which I did at Temple today. Turns out this girl that used to work at True Love is working there now, she recognized me and we had a little chat. I’m loving GEB, and I’m about halfway through.

Frantic call from Kathleen tonight, I think she’s going to be arrested. Apparently some kind of social worker came over and talked to Grammie for five minutes and said that she’s “fine” and doesn’t have dementia. Am I the only person that’s willing to admit that she does? Seriously, if I’ve said it one time, I’ll say it again. And in an h1, nesting be damned.

fuck my west coast family.

These people are so devoted to immolating themselves and each other over petty, meaningless bullshit I am ashamed to be included in this family.

I can’t wait to leave Sacramento. This place is a fucking dump.