Monthly Archive for May, 2008

AwesomeBar

I really like Firefox 3’s AwesomeBar. That is all.

RSS Moved Permanently?

HTTP defines the 301 Moved Permanently response. Does this work for feeds? I think it should. Often I’ll see a post to the effect of, “we’re moving here, update your RSS readers now.”

I’m lazy. I’d like my RSS reader to do this automatically for me.

2:05 Fran

Amazing. Speal pulls a 2:05 Fran. This is a world record by 10+ seconds.

The End of Architecture

The End of Architecture
Burton Smith, Tera Computer Company
17th Annual Symposium on Computer Architecture
Seattle, Washington
May 29, 1990

(Thanks, Wendy!)

Public Transit

Although I live a mere 5 miles from work, and drive a 4 cylinder car, I’ve decided to start riding the bus. I don’t like paying $50 for a tank of gas. The stuff is simply not worth that much to me. I am apparently not alone.

Anyone with a Microsoft badge (including non-employees like me) can get a free FlexPass courtesy of the company.† This was a major factor in my decision.

Last week I rode the bus 4 times. It was clean, fairly punctual, and essentially empty at the times I rode it. I used Google Map’s Public Transit feature to plan my trip, which generally includes a 10 minute walk.

†This is exceedingly cool. Thank you, Microsoft. I will try to remember this next time I’m about to bash Vista.

Iron Man

Iron Man was really good. Go see it.

Surface

I got to play with a Microsoft Surface yesterday. It was pretty neat. Unfortunately, it did not have Warcraft III on it.




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