Link of the Day [1.27.09]

broderic on January 27, 2009

I wrote about my gripes of Windows v OS X yesterday. It's great and all
for the operating system to conform to your way of working and/or
expectations, but what happens when applications start going their own
way? Adobe seems to be the main culprit at making up new UI schemes,
because of trying to bridge their applications to two OS platforms. In
making their lives at porting easy, they've made some users unhappy.
I've purposely avoid Microsoft applications on my OS X machines. After
looking at the screen captures at today's link, I'll do the same with
Adobe. Plus, it's another reason to hate Flash. Is that thing dead
yet?http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/

Gran Torino

broderic on January 27, 2009

I must apologize as to how late this post on Gran Torino has been. It’s not like I didn’t know what to say, and it’s not like I forgot. I’ve just not gotten around to writing up my thoughts on this film. Yet, I’ve seen another movie since then, and my queue of movie reviews must be serviced, so here comes the Gran Torino review as seen from a few weeks back.

Clint Eastwood takes his Dirty Harry character to its end: living in the run down neighborhood surrounded by dirty foreigners. He just hates everyone. How do you know? He says it constantly. “Get off my lawn!” His catchphrase in this movie. It’s just like Grandpa Simpson.

Eastwood finally learns to like some of the dirty foreigners when he helps the Hmong family avoid a bunch of Hmong roughnecks. He watches out for the kid and the sister before he helps them finally be free of their problem.

They couldn’t act. Neither could Eastwood. It wasn’t a great movie. It was serviceable. I don’t ever want to see it again though.

2 of 5 stars.

Link of the Day [1.26.09]

broderic on January 26, 2009

This article about Windows taskbar and the OS X dock goes into some of the reasons I hate working on a PC. It has mainly to do with Multiple Document Interface (MDI).

I’m clumsy it expressing my hatred for Windows implementation, so read today’s link and appreciate the Mac paradigm. It also goes along way into understanding why your mom who uses a Mac keeps leaving applications running instead of quitting out of them.

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/dock-and-windows-7-taskbar.ars

2002

broderic on January 25, 2009

This is BrowserMetric’s 2002nd post. I would of congratulated myself on the 2000th post, but forgot.

It’s been a quick run up to this many number because of starting my lotd and qotd posts. They’re hard to keep up and at times difficult to find something interesting for them. If you indulge me for a little while they’ll keep on coming for a little more time coming. I know for sure that they’ll be stopping though, but that time is coming in the future.

I had done this post to once again break up the monotony of seeing the lotd and qotd in my RSS readers. This makes it look almost human now.

The 2nd annual BrowserMetrics Oscar pool is going to be starting. I’ve upped the number of prizes. So look for the opening post soon.

Thanks for your support over these 2002 posts.

Quote of the Day [1.25.09]

broderic on January 25, 2009

“You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell! “

George Taylor (Charleton Heston), The Planet of the Apes

Link of the Day [1.25.09]

broderic on January 25, 2009

A few weeks ago, I had linked to a site about manga trading. I lamented that I would rather get rid of my manga rather than accumulate more. I never did sign up for that service. I still might.

Out in Japan, they have manga rental places. These rental places are a good idea… I would happily rent manga at a place that specializes in manga, because I would get a big selection of the stuff, picking and choosing the ones I want to read and the ones I want to explore. I can try before buying, and I can try all different genres. And it’s better than a bookstore because it does specialize in only manga.

I think in the US they would call this a library.

http://www.kirainet.com/english/manga-rental/