CNN reports that Dr. Robert Atkins, creator of the “Atkins Diet,” went in to cardiac arrest earlier this week. My coworker Scott Collins better watch out.
Archive for April, 2002
In the news
April 27, 2002Blogger Pro
April 27, 2002I just upgraded to Blogger Pro. So far it seems pretty cool, although I haven’t yet tried all the features.
In the news
April 26, 2002Short people get paid less according to this article. This would explain why I get paid less than basketball players and why Blake is paid with peanuts.
French fries cause cancer? Say it isn’t so! This is so going to screw up my diet.
Apparently evil squirrels are invading Stanford University.
Enemy of the State
April 26, 2002I went over to David’s house tonight and watched Enemy of the State. It wasn’t too bad. It did have a few Pearl Harbor moments that I think distracted from the overall movie. Aside from that, there was some good killing and explosions.
City of Heroes
April 25, 2002Gamespot has an article on an upcoming MMORPG game called City of Heroes where you get to play a Super Hero. You will be able to pick your super powers and design your own costume. Looks like it could be fun.
A link to my site
April 25, 2002I just noticed that the fine folk over at My Trailer is Bigger Than Your Trailer added a link to my blog under “Kin Folk & Frends.” I must say this makes me awfully darn proud being from Georgia and all. I hope these fine folk continue doin the good job they do over in them trailer parks.
Words from McObject
April 24, 2002Our beloved Matt Judy, the Cocoa loving McDonalds employee, has written a rather long blog. Matt starts off by implying that the inhabitants of #mozilla are terrorists by claiming “it was [...] an attack.” It appears his attempts at peace have failed. “It’d be misnomer to call it intellectual conversation” he writes.
Matt claims that Chimera has “pushed the most important part of Mozilla (the embeddable Gecko componentry) to new levels or usability, fixing tons of bugs, and making performance improvements all over the place.” But he the notes that “Unfortunately, those changes have yet to land in the tree.”
Finally, after far too many lines of useless text, he claims that “wrapping Gecko in Cocoa is the best thing for the engine on Mac OS X.” Is this true? Is adding Yet Another Layer to Mozilla the “best thing?” I wouldn’t think so. Matt claims that this provides “ultimate simplicity.”
Because clearly the new Mac OS (based on a 900 year old OS) is perfect, Matt says that “there is an underlying performance problem somewhere in Gecko/NSPR/GodKnowsWhat” and that it “needs to be fixed.” He says these problems should not “simply chalked up to “slowness” of the Mac.” There is an interesting Wired article that claims that the reason browsers on Mac OS X are slow is because of Mac OS X itself. Since Chimera has produced the best test scores running various benchmarks, it would seem it might not be “Gecko/NSPR/GodKnowsWhat” causing the problem.
He finishes his article by saying that he is going to “investigate with some profiling tools.” While apparently there are some profilers on the OS, Mike Pinkerton says “none of them are as easy to use as Quantify.”
Perhaps when Matt uses his profiling tools, he will be able to show us why all browsers are slow on his perfect OS. We can all safely assume that Cocoa, due to its mature state, has no bugs and is well optimized. Could it be that if Mozilla was written in Objective-C all of our bugs would go away? Perhaps we should rewrite Mozilla in PPC assembly? That should only take a few decades, and by then, processors should be fast enough that you will be able to run the slow OS X without it feeling slow!
On a side note, Matt Judy claims that the Chimera project is officially named “chimera” and not “Chimera.” However, in speaking with David Hyatt on this matter, he claims that the project is indeed called “Chimera” and not “chimera.” Celebrity Deathmatch anyone?
DOA3 Bonus CD
April 24, 2002I got the Dead or Alive 3 bonus CD today in the mail as part of the XBox Official Magazine (which I highly recommend if you own an XBox). Some of the new costumes look pretty neat, but I haven’t really played them much yet. Are there any other new features this bonus pack adds?
Upcoming Finales
April 24, 2002TV Guide has written an article on the upcoming season finales. Some fine points include:
Boston Public - “you can bet something will take place that would never happen in a real high school.”
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - “this show has been a real downer this year.”
Dark Angel - “Max finally exposes herself to the world. Sounds kinky.”
Dawson’s Creek - “please someone cancel this God-awful show.”
JAG - “Catherine Bell is hot!”
Roswell - “We’re not saying anything mean because Roswell fans scare us a little.”
What would Brian Boitano do?
April 22, 2002Brenda, a friend of mine, just started a new project at her job. She really likes the project, but has some problems with the way it is being run. Since people at Netscape wouldn’t put up with this sort of thing, I thought to myself: “What would Brian Boitano do?” We asked his close personal friends Stan and Cartman. “I’m sure he’d kick an ass or two” says Stan. Cartman tells us “when Brian Boitano built the pyramids he beat up Kubla Kahn, cuz Brian Boitano doesn’t take shit from anybody.” Perhaps these words of wisdom will be of some help to her.
