Browser Metrics

broderic on November 21, 2008

Browser metrics @ browsermetrics

So, I’m creeping up the hit chart on google for the search term “browser metrics.” You can find the fake browser metrics at mozilla.org’s wiki. They only showed up several years after I had coined the term. They are stealing my thunder which I should’ve trademarked or copyrighted a long time ago.

BTW, the story of the name BrowserMetrics comes from my time at Shore Studios. I was sitting around joking with my co-worker AT about how to know that the web sites we were building were optimized to load quick. Was the jpgs and gifs and html we writing going to be quick when served up? Remember this was the time of the ubiquitous dial-up and probably around the 24.4 to 56k crossover. I hit on a scheme to figure out the load time of pages. I was developing some mathematical formulas to describe each and every element on the page and how they contributed to load times. But then I quit that job and the internet became all about the broadband, so now its just the name of the blog.

Link of the Day [11.20.08]

broderic on November 20, 2008

Today’s Thursday and I want to make you cry. Not some sad song of lost love or lost youth. Not some lamentation for a forgotten friend or for the young man cut down in the prime of his life.

No, I got some sadness that’ll grow hair on your head. Make you crawl back to bed. Look to upping your Xanax dosage.

The US auto companies are asking us for their help.

A couple of years back, I was at Barnes and Nobles on a Friday night. There was a lady wandering the parking lot with a sad story to tell. She was crying, blubbering about her daughter. She asked me for some money for the bus to get to her. “Sure,” I replied and gave her a five to help her on her way. The next week I run into her again. She’s crying again giving the same spiel. “I heard this one last week, lady,” I say angry that I was suckered the week before.

That’s just sad. Like the woes of GM.

http://gmfactsandfiction.com/

Yay! Crazy Shrine Girl!

broderic on November 20, 2008

Just had to post this to continue with posting opening credits from the anime I am watching. You’ve seen Haruhi. This one is pretty stupid. I hate it too, but oh well.

Cmd-H or F11

broderic on November 20, 2008


Mac Mini Desktop 11-19-2008
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.
Show me your desktops.

I was wondering what your desktop looks like. Cluttered with files? Neat and pristine like the day you bought it? Weird desktop pics, funky icons, or a completely different theme? Windows, Mac, Ubuntu, commnad line?

Just show me your desktop.

So post a picture somewhere, flickr or some such, and put the link in the comment or on your blog. Let’s see what we can see.

Quote of the Day [11.19.08]

broderic on November 19, 2008

Because mutiny on the bounty’s what we’re all about
I’m gonna board your ship and turn it on out
No soft sucker with a parrot on his shoulder
‘Cause I’m bad gettin’ bolder – cold getting colder
Terrorizing suckers on the seven seas
And if you’ve got beef – you’ll get capped in the knees
We got sixteen men on a dead man’s chest
And I shot those suckers and I’ll shoot the rest

Beastie Boys, “Rhymin’ and Stealin'”

The Wackness 3: A phantom hope

broderic on November 19, 2008

This one is a problem with the fansubbers.

As you can see, they’re a bunch of amateurs. While I completely appreciate the fact that I can watch the latest season of anime from Japan in much the same time as the Japanese, I wish they would be more professional and take their time at presentation. Why is it that I can still read the comments one fansub member is leaving for another? Shouldn’t this have been scrubbed out before the burn session?

Or maybe this is a problem with .mkv implementation in VLC?

What wackness is that!

Return of The Wackness

broderic on November 19, 2008

Another big oops for the open source and fansubbing community. Why am I downloading .mkv? It’s pretty much just nothing but trouble. Supposedly this video format allows better subtitling, but as you can see it’s implementation in VLC leaves a lot to be desired. I wonder who’s at fault here?

Quantum of Solace

broderic on November 19, 2008

Quantum of Solace jumps right in where it left off two years ago. At least that’s what I thought, because I have only seen Casino Royale once in the theatres many moons ago.

I like the Bond girl who fits the classic Bond girl mold, Strawberry Fields. She doesn’t tell us her first name. She’s against Bond at their first meeting like the loyal henchwoman of Bond nemesis of old. Yet, she hops into the sack with Bond, and fatally winds up metaphorically being dropped into the shark pit or killed by the bad voodoo. She learns that you shake your ta-tas at Bond then you’ll take a dirt nap.

I really don’t have much to say about it, but maybe I might watch this on DVD more than its predecessor.

3 of 5 stars