Browser update of the Week
Firefox 2 comes out tomorrow (Tuesday) and IE7 is slower rendering some pages, particularly if they use AJAX, than Firefox.
October 2006
Tripping over your talking points
Despite using the phrase "Stay the course" repeatedly to differentiate his policy from those who would "cut-and-run" in Iraq, President Bush is now revising history saying "We’ve never been stay the course, George!". Watch the interview with George Stephanopoulos.
Browser upgrades – Firefox 2 or IE7
Of course, you know I’m going to tell you to install Firefox 2.0 once its released, and I don’t have a windows XP machine so no trying out the newly released IE7. By the way, did you see that security vulnerabilities were already found for IE7, less than 24 hours after its release? I’m using
Geez, anyone can be offended . . .
If crazy people would just stop doing insane things, then maybe we wouldn’t use them to refer to crazy stuff. From Nobody’s Business: Poor, Misunderstood Leatherface. The National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI, is unhappy with pop-culture depictions of psychopaths and serial killers.
I know, we’ll designate them by color!
Who’s the genius who thought making students wear color-coded IDs was a brilliant idea? To foster a “sense of identity and security”, you should divide people into separate groups. As if there aren’t enough ways for students to form into cliques all on their own. I especially abhor making ESL students where yellow – if
Windows Vista is Microsoft’s Iraq?
Scott Rosenberg draws an interesting parallel between Microsoft’s attempt to rewrite Windows, and the Bush administration’s foray into Iraq. Of course, the two aren’t morally equivalent, but its a good intellectual excercise with more than a shred of validity. Then he says, “It wasn’t executed.” Note the passive voice, correct for it: “We didn’t execute
PattyMail Bugs
The same techniques online marketers used to track open rates for bulk mail were used by Hewlett Packard to track the source of email leaks. Its hilarious that they’ve since been named PattyMail – I think my sister has a trademark on that. PattyMails are either really funny status updates or "Hi, don’t want to
Ouch!
Maxi Rodriguez unfortunately blew out his ACL in Argentina’s loss to Spain yesterday. Rodriguez scored one of the best goals of the World Cup during the knockout phase against Mexico. (Post includes video).
More Desktop Thoughts
Sandy made some excellent points, as expected, arguing for a Mac – "So count that as $150 for a really good environment and some nice apps, which retail all together for about $200." No doubt cause he just bought himself a shiny iMac. OS X is definitely a very nice operating system. After 2 years
Desktop Upgrade Choices
I stayed up way too late last night researching a potential desktop replacement. I’m torn between a DIY AMD64 PC vs an Apple. Up front, the biggest decider will be price, as I want to keep the price at or below $1,000. That rules out iMac’s and MacPros, leaving the Mac Mini as my choice