Month: April 2007

Battle of the Mac Browsers

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I read a few reviews regarding performance showdowns between several browsers on the Mac. I was very surpised by the results. Both reviews I looked over said that OmniWeb was the fastest browser overall. I currently use Camino, and I like the general functionality of it, but I was not happy to see that it performed horribly compared to other browsers. Safari scored well, but one of the tests did note they used a “daily” build of the browser that is significantly faster and newer version of the RTM version currently going around. I personally don’t care about using some kinds of beta software, so that note didn’t really matter to me.

Late this week I decided to swich over to Safari to see if I could notice the performance difference. I used to use Safari but switch for some reason that I cannot recall at this time. That was until about an hour ago when I realized that last year when I bough OmniOutliner & OmniGraffle I purchased the bundle from the OmniGroup, thus I already owned a copy of OmniWeb. With a 5 second search using spotlight (really), I found the email with my key code. I downloaded the latest version of Omniweb and now I am going to give it a try for a while. If I don’t like it or don’t see a major performance boost I might switch back but I will give it some time for now. I just hope I don’t run into any sites that don’t like the browser since it is a non standard one, but I heard that it appears to sites as one of the more common browsers so I am hopeful.

(For some reason my blogging software ecto decided to crash on me as I was finishing up this post the first time, so I will hopefully be able to recreate what I wrote)

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Good Friday

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After work I meet up with Jayson & Danny for some drinks at a cool bar. I was tempted to have a few drinks, but I kept to my self imposed limit of 2 drinks a night. We had a good time just hanging out and talking and drinking. We spent like 5 hours at the bar until Jayson and I wanted to go. Danny was still ready to drink however. He was pretty drunk. He ended up running out of room on the receipt while he was trying to write down how much tip to put on his credit card. It was kind of funny. On the plus side he made it home without ending up traveling 30 minutes in the opposite direction. That has happened on more than one occasion.

Work was a normal day even though it was the day before a holiday. It is freezing again, so I had out the winter coat again. I am not complaining since I like it cold, but I can’t stand it being so hot I don’t need a jacket one day and then I need gloves and a Pea Coat a few days later.

The Holiday’s, Well Sort Of

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Tonight I went to my parents for the first night of Passover. It is a holiday to me in the sense that I get together with my family and that it is a Jewish holiday. I of course don’t celebrate it in the traditional way (aka I don’t at all). It is good to see everyone though. Lots of little kids running around now a days. Morgan, Zack, and the twins are so funny. Evan is very cute just staring at everyone but she (yes it is a girls name too I am told) is too young to do much.

I didn’t eat very much. I never really do at these get togethers. The food is not the usual stuff I would eat. I was really tired so I was glad that I got a rid from Andrew back to my place. It is nice having quasi family live nearby, especially if they have cars!

Overall a good night, even though I at the time when I was tired it didn’t feel that way. Of course any night when I can get a hello and goodbye hug and kiss from Morgan is a good night! I will say it again, she is way too smart for her own good.

As for work, it was the normal fare today. I had a bunch of meetings. Then uncovered stuff that should have been setup better than it was, and a few minor issues crept up. Because of the holiday I didn’t stay to take part in a test that was planned. I hope it goes well since if it does we can prove to others what we have been saying for a while that VMware should be used more in our environment. I will see how it went when I get to work tomorrow.

Map Mashup’s

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From the totally useless yet really cool department I bring myself MapKit. I have read about and seen plenty of places doing things like this on their websites but this was so easy to setup and link to my blog I had to do it. It allows me to note spots on a map with information. I can also add photo’s and other data. It looks like they use Google Earth for their mapping functions. It is neat what you can do with mashup’s these days. I know it is a waste of time, but I think it is cool adding interesting places or places I frequent onto my map.

I think I set it up so anyone can add sites to my map. I encourage friends to post stuff, even though I know no one will want to. My friends will think it is to geeky to do something like that!

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Clean Up

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I spent a nice part of this weekend cleaning up my apartment. It wasn’t that it was that diry, I did need a dusting and stuff but it was just getting too cluttered for me. I know if I just put stuff away when I was done with them like my mom tried to teach me I wouldn’t be in the situation, but I have no excuse. It is nice to have everything nice and clean though. I even did some re-wireing of some gear to clean up my TV stand thingie.

Not much else to report this weekend. I tried to take it easy since I am currently petrified of getting another migraine. I am going to do some more reading up on what can be done to help prevent them. I generally know what causes my migraines but taking some more proactive steps to prevent or decrease the chances of getting them seems like a smart idea after the week I had.

Once it does get slightly warmer I can go out and air up my bike tires and get some biking in. I am currently contemplating moving out of Manhattan for various reasons, but I don’t know where I would bike if I wasn’t so close to central park! I guess that is another reason to stay in the plus column.

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