Been having fun with sunsets and fields. I really like how these came out.
So this is what has been keeping Why busy. Suppose it stands to reason he’d finally write his own language.
I wonder whether this will become the basis of Shoes? I gather he wrote Shoes as a basis for Hackety Hack after not being able to get XUL to do what he wanted. Perhaps he’s gone one step further and done the language as well? Or it could just be done for fun.
"iPhone = my computer…Haven’t bought new laptop since late 06"
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- Megnut
This is my thought exactly - although for me my main computing platform is a poor man’s iPhone, the iPod Touch (best £2 I ever spent) - and what I alluded to in my earlier JavaScript benchmarking post. It certainly beats a netbook.
Ironically, Tumblr is a bit over-zealous in its iPhone optimisation and I’ll have to finish off formatting this post on my mac!
Via: Daring Fireball
I’m very much a webkit man nowadays, but Firefox still rules in the coroporate / office environment (even if mainly because of IETab). These stats are cool though.
My very belated shot for Towel Day. It was at least taken on the right day, I’ve just been delayed finishing the film off.
I went for a different approach to the “People with towel slung over shoulder” shot, an opted for my Blake’s 7 Liberator Starship landing on a towely terrain; which I thought fitted the geeky/sci-fi theme well.
I can’t decide if it is sad or cool that I still have a Blake’s 7 Liberator Starship.
I’d hazard a guess at sad.
Flickr offically announced the short-url thing, along with a way to easily post these to flickr. See also the code blog post.
I still wish there was a way to grab the short-url from the Share This button on the photo page.
That graph just rockets upwards. I played Michael Jackson vs Q-Tip, Breathe don’t stop, which I doubt got counted in that graph.
iPod Touch vs a Mac vs a PC (SunSpider javascript benchmarks)
1st Place My new main computing platform: iPod Touch 2nd Gen, OS 3.0:
Safari 33796.0ms +/- 3.1%
2nd Place My stalwart: 12” Powerboook 1GHz PPC, OS X 10.5.7
Opera 9.62, 38896.8ms +/- 6.6%
3rd Place At work: Dell D610, 2GHz Pentium, XP SP2
IE6* 49827.4ms +/- 4.6%
OK, those are chosen for shock value, but still that’s pretty impressive. For a ‘fairer’ comparison I have more benchmarked, such as Safari and Chrome on the PC, and Safari on the Mac. It does go to show though that iPod Touches and iPhones are a fairly respectable mobile computing platforms - who needs a netbook, hey?!
* IE6 remains my employers preferred and default installed browser; It is still necessary for certain intranet sites that will not work with other browsers.
Suspension
- Big Pest: Daddy, what's suspension?
- Me: Well... It's something that absorbs shocks. So on a car or a bike it means that when you go over the bumps in the road it isn't as bumpy for you and it also means the wheels stay gripping the ground rather than bouncing in the air.
- Big Pest: Daddy!? I mean at school!
Bye Bye Kodachrome (and 110 format film!)
So Kodachrome is being discontinued after 74 years. I haven’t even got around to shooting any yet. I expect there will be a rush on stocks, but for the time being it is still available (7dayshop). However, in my quick search to find who’s stocking it, I then stumble across the shocker that 110 film is no longer being made by Fuji (discountfilmsdirect). Gutted.
So next payday I guess I’m going to have to get a roll of Kodachrome and a roll of 110 film. I’ve not even got a 110 camera yet. I’d put camera purchases on the back burner after getting my Yashica Mat; after-all I’ve only been able to afford to put one roll through that so far. But I guess I’m going to have to get a 110 camera sometime this year, I’m pretty sure the 110 stocks will disappear as quickly as 126 did.
And one day yet, I’m going to have to get my Disc Camera working.
This is well worth a look: Kodak’s Kodachrome Slide Show
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