Implosion Watch: The Bigger They Are ...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
The harder the fall is when they crush us because of a terrible economic situation. Seems that AIG is now mostly the property of the US Government because of a potential collapse that the feds stepped in to prevent. This of course dovetails with the doom and gloom forecasts of massive financial ruin right before the whole thing falls apart in chaos and turmoil. So we have skyrocketing costs of living, fuel costs that never seem to drop, and now the big money movers are all running in circles; yet people called me crazy all those years when I said things were only going to get worse. Sucks to be them I guess, Ive been preparing while everyone else had their heads in the sand.
I'm Not Even Joking
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Tech: OK sir click on Start
Client: What is that?
* Blink and Facepalm have been successfully executed *
Its true, so true in fact that I wish it was not true at all and instead some terrible joke or misconception. Sad fact is that this is raw from yet another day on the job. So when you are sitting at your desk and think your job is terrible just remember; you could be tech support.
Labels: frustrations
First Thoughts: Google Chrome
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past few months you probably have heard about the new Google project called Chrome. Given how large and powerful Google is on the internet it seems obvious that eventually they would want to get into the browser market since that is how everybody interfaces with most everything online. Yesterday Digg blew up with news about Chrome being out and available for download, so naturally I went out and grabbed a copy as soon as I had some free time, here are my thoughts on what its done so far.
Speed - This thing so far has it in spades, aces of spades no less. Its more responsive than the 3.0 Firefox release, even on this old junker of a computer that I use at work. Switching tabs is smooth as can be, loading pages is fast for the most part (unless the designer was a complete moron) and even the url guesstimation field is quick on the draw and generally quite accurate also.
Looks - While not as fancy as a dressed up IE or Firefox the minimalist setup is rockin and gives you the most viewable realestate by default of any browser I've used so far. The initial blue theme might make me cringe by bringing up thoughts of Windows XP's out of the box configuration I suspect in proper fashion Google will open up to themes fairly fast.
Rendering - So far doing my usual daily surfing I have only found two sites that had any real noticeable errors when viewed through Chrome: facebook's pictures code breaks and wont let you scroll through the pages of photos on a profile; and the World of Warcraft Armory displays the tooltips for gear completely wrong, having them appear so far from the cursor that triggers the effect that you can't read most of them. Amazingly enough even the code for this blog is rendered without any mutilations or disfigurations, and thats saying something considering the hack job I had to do in order for it to work right in the first place.
Security issue aside I'm quite impressed with what the browswer has to offer so far and given Google's mind for innovation I suspect there are many more amazing things in the pipe for Chrome as it continues to make waves in the oceans of the browser war.