Created on April 16, 2008.
Kaleidoscope is fun drawing toy that requires a fairly up to date browser.
Category: Web/Tech
Vista Performance (not)
I have had almost no personal experience of Windows Vista, and having watched my manager struggle with it on her laptop, I am quite content to keep it that way. Randall C Kennedy of InfoWorld decided to compare Vista versus XP and Windows 2000 on the same hardware and produced this chart.
Not only is Vista and Office 2007 the most bloated desktop software stack ever to emerge from Redmond, its system requirements are so out of proportion with recent hardware trends that only the latest and greatest from Intel or AMD can support its epically porcine girth.
Testing LiveJournal Crossposter
I’ve made a change to ljxp to work with WordPress 2.5 according to these instructions.
Tabs Open Relative :: Firefox Add-ons
In the default install of Firefox, new tab open at the end of the list of tabs. The Tabs Open Relative :: Add-ons changes this behavior, so that the new tab opens after the current one. I strongly prefer this behavior, and really miss it when I use a version of Firefox without it.
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Checking a Site When You Think It May Be Down
Here is a useful link: Down for everyone or just me? When you go there, it will tell you if a site is down for everyone or just you. (via Download Squad)
Flower Garden
Spring Flowers, for those days when you need a little cheer. (Hold down the right mouse button and drag your mouse over the background.)
Easy, tiger.
The cutline theme came with a cute 404 page.
Cutline
For now, I have settled on using the Cutline Theme for my weblog, as I could not seem to get Mandigo to work for me since I moved hosts.
Plan B
Fortunately, Plan B, using PHPMyAdmin to download data from the old host, and upload data to the new host, worked. I feel so much better now.