It’s a funny thing how much we come to rely on software for repeated executions of the same function over and over, and shocked and frustrated we are when it suddenly doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do. I rely heavily on Firefox’s ability to re-open tabs - rather than bookmarking sites, if they’re something I want to look at later, I’ll just leave them open in a tab. I’ve had tabs open for weeks at a time if it’s something that’s low-priority. I shut down Firefox, and every time I re-open it, my tabs come back…until today. Today I started up Firefox, and none of my tabs re-opened. In fact, it didn’t even load Google as my starting page. I was staring at a blank screen. I exited and re-started, hoping to see the message about it restoring previous tabs from a crashed state…nothing. I checked under HISTORY > RECENTLY CLOSED TABS…and nothing was there because I set the privacy settings to purge pretty much everything upon exit. Damn.

All my tabs were gone - I had about four of them, and I can’t recall what they were. Lost forever amongst the myriad of sites, never to be found again. I was completely baffled that Firefox didn’t do what it was supposed to do. Thankfully it seems to be working properly again, but I’ve now changed my privacy settings to not purge the history in case it happens again. Hopefully Firefox won’t do this again…maybe it’s acting up on me because I criticized the people who created it.

I finally managed to get through some of my back-logged photos after having a very busy summer full of shooting a wedding and the reception, a BBQ, a softball game, and a baptism. So after shooting and processing photos for everyone else, I’m finally getting some time for photos of my own. In late June/early July, Ashley and I went to visit our friends Tim and Melissa Heerebout in London, Ontario. We were there for a weeking, making trips out to Toronto, Niagara Falls, Niagara on the Lake, and elsewhere. Lots of fun - here’s the photo album, and here are some of my favourite photos below (can you tell I had a hard time picking just a couple?).