This will leave a mark. Blockbuster is going primarily with Blu-ray.
Year: 2007 (page 12 of 18)
Saturday we drove to Lancaster County to have a “Day out with Thomas”. We gave the kids a camera each and here are some of the pictures that they took.
First the girl: she’s going to be 4 at the end of the month.
She likes MINI’s, go figure.
Nice picture of the boy taking a picture.
Now for some of my 5 year old son’s pictures:
He also likes MINIs.
Here is when he discovered the record button.
They did more, I’ll upload the keepers to Flickr.
For Christmas the kids had each gotten Disney digital cameras. These were okay but needed special software, a non-standard USB cable, and had no preview window.
Yesterday Lily and I got the kids inexpensive affordable low end HP digital cameras. I’ll post the best pictures they take over the weekend here.
Security. Sweet.
Security on Safari 3 Beta. Not so sweet.
BetaNews | ‘Day One’ for Safari for Windows Becomes Zero-Day Nightmare
Speed! Sweet.
Speed. Can’t see the increase myself. Not so sweet.
Joel on Software: Apple Safari for Windows: The world’s slowest web browser
Joel updates the post a few times regarding the speed thing. I get a kick out of his “Safari even managed to bring the inferior font rendering of the OS X platform to Windows, no easy trick.”
I’ve already removed it from my system. When I need to check a web page for how it displays, I use Firefox, Internet Explorer 7, and Opera 9. If I could easily swing it I would also check with Internet Explorer 6. I guess having a working Safari on Windows would be useful, but I’ll wait for it to come out of beta.
The claims of better, faster, more secure just irks me. It would not have been that difficult to have someone reputable ethically hack Safari 3 beta before releasing it. Given the large number of security folks who are “Give me Mac or give me death!” I’m sure they could have found some good volunteers.
Images lifted from Apple’s Safari web page.
You can download Safari 3 for Windows beta here.
I’m not sure why this would matter for Apple. It’s a prettier browser (the font rendering is very anti-aliased) but this beta did bad things when I tried to write this blog entry using the built in WordPress editor. What’s the point for Apple? Will Safari make a Vista user buy a Mac?
It’s like Firefox without the extensions. It’s supposed to be faster but I’m just not seeing it on my PC.
Like waiting for the odometer to roll over.
Microsoft could have done better for a Vista only game.
Two weeks ago I was at my in-laws house. My nephew has an old Xbox (not the 360) and was playing Halo. It was a little retro compared with Gears of War but it looked okay. So for $20 at Best Buy I picked up the original Halo Combat Evolved for my PC. I completed it quickly enough and had some fun.
Plasma grenades sticking onto the bad guys was fun; sometimes the little grunts would shout “Not again!”
Halo 2 for Vista came out and I picked it up too. It’s okay. It’s not as visually entertaining as Unreal Tournament 2004, and the Marines have already run me over in a Warthog.
Just like an original Xbox game, it feels a little retro but displayed in wide screen. So far the game play is acceptable, just not anything to get excited about. It plays better than the original Halo but there is nothing that I can see that justifies it being a Vista only game.
Microsoft should have gone with a port of Gears of War, now THAT would have been very cool.
Screenshot taken from Microsoft’s Halo 2 for Vista website.
Pidgin 2.0.1 for Windows now comes with Aspell bundled in. This release fixes over 100 bugs (says the web page). If it speller does not install, you can still get the installer and dictionary from http://aspell.net/win32/.
Saw this on Reddit this morning. These guy are hysterical, although if a cop asks you “are you with these guys?” you’d better tell the truth. Best Buy must have been fun to be in that day.
Bet “Retail Store Management 101” never covered days like these.
Last Friday the area around my right side burn got swollen and raw. By Saturday afternoon it spread down the right side of my neck.
By Monday (Memorial Day) everyone was reminding me to see a doctor. It was all swollen and hurt a little with pins and needles pain.
Tuesday morning I am in the office. Two of my friends were saying “Wow, you look like crap”. A third friend walked in a little later took of his shades and said “Hey that looks just like Shingles!”
Shingles, as in the same virus that causes chicken pox. That’ll make me popular!
I left work 10 minutes after that, with one of my friends acting like I was infectious. After seeing the doctor, she confirmed it was shingles. I was sure it was just midlife acne or a bad rash caused by a bug bite.
Tuesday and Wednesday the thing began to really hurt. I couldn’t sleep because of the sharp pain. Today it’s hurting much less, shifting into a burning feeling. Shingles is a virus that lives in the nerves. It can’t be cured but with medicine the length of the flare up can hopefully be minimized. My friend had just seen it one someone else who complained about the pain. At the time I was thinking “what pain?” and now a couple of days later I know exactly what he meant.
Both kids have been vaccinated against chickenpox so no worries there. If I can keep the stress down at work and home then I should be fine. As it is, when something make me snarl I get stabbing pains in my neck. No joke.
That will teach me to take it easy from now on 🙂
