The weather was sooo nice today that we decided to go to the cinema with our little son. It was the first movie at the cinema for him. We saw Pooh’s Heffalump, great moment :-) Also because he really likes Winnie the Pooh!
New version 1.0.3 of Firefox available.
What’s new in this release?
Seth Godin, again, again and again. Two interesting inputs for the week-end ;-)
But shame on [Pfizer] for believing that doing the right thing all along is the same as doing the right short-term thing for the shareholders. It’s not the same. It’s not the same ethically, and it’s not the same in terms of long term profit or branding either.
So, I think I understand what happens when you win the race to the top. You end up with a healthy, motivated workforce that’s focused on adding art and joy to your products. You end up with profits and market share and a community that’s glad you’re there.
What happens, though, when you win the race to the bottom?
FireTune (freeware, Windows version) works really very well. Have a try!
FireTune for Mozilla Firefox v1.x was developed for an easy and fast optimization of your browsing experience with Firefox. Usually you have to optimize Firefox manually, which can be time consuming and difficult for the novice user. FireTune helps you here – it includes all the performance optimizations. The only thing you must do is: make your selection. It does the work for you.
Dear Mac readers, I know you because you are still using Safari as a browser (~ 1.5% of the traffic). I apologize for this post but…I couldn’t lie ;-)
Lot of buzz and emails concerning the coming new Mac OS X on 29th April. Also concerning the Dashboard. To my point of view, nothing new under the sun (sure, there are other interesting innovations!). Konfabulator does the same (excepted the cool waves effect) since months (Mac and PC). I’m using, as a registered user (yeay), Konfabulator on my laptop/workstation under WinXP since November 2004. Great tool for geek :-)
I must say I am *NOT* a fan of Mac at all, and this, since years. In the 80s, I was already using a Commodore 64, instead of an Apple II. Sorry for that:-)
Russell summarized my feelings very well (read his post completely to know what he is thinking about Mac!):
The Mac bothers me for all the same reasons it bothers others out there. It’s a closed system, running on proprietary hardware which always seems to be doomed to be both more expensive, and half the speed of the PC world. That and having to learn another OS and it’s foibles bugs me a bit. I’ve been using Windows for over a decade, so figuring out problems is second nature.
Wow, wow, wow. Very exciting and good French, Creole, Italian and Chinese cuisine to be tested in St.Barths. The concentration of good restaurants is terrible for your weight.
One of the best things about St. Barts is the quality and variety of the food.
This is true not only in numerous local restaurants, but in many local homes and villas as well, due to the unusually wide range of foodstuffs available at local grocery stores, and due to the quality of local catering services.
Shopping for food in St. Barts can be a delightful social pastime in itself.
[via St-Barths.com]
We tested the following restaurants, see our appreciation:
Pixoria released an update 1.8.4 of Konfabulator.
This update addresses the following issues:
Full review here.
So, after having played for a while with my first bridge (hp 945, 5.3MP, 8x optical zoom), I decided to enter a complete new world for me – the digital SLR (Single-Lens Reflex) photography.
I read a lot of different tests and I decided myseld for a Canon EOS 20D, which is recognized as one of the best camera in this semi-professional field, i.e. for the so-called “prosumers”. You can find some tests here:
I bought the 20D with the Canon lens EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 which is typically sold with as a package. This lens is a cheap one and I have known that I would have to buy another lens. This one is not really good and is more degrading the overall quality of the 20D. Again, a lot of readindgs, specially in the forums this time. I was laughing a lot during all these readings because the people have about the same behaviour as in the IT world (Microsoft vs. Open Source, XP vs. linux): nether ending discussions between fans & experts who are fighting for Canon, or for Nikon, for this kind of lens, for this one, etc. :-)
I hesitated between two Canon lens, which are completely different and differently positionned: the EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM and the EF-S 17-85mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM. The 17-40 is recognized as one of the best lens in this range of price, with very high quality optics. It does give you true wide angle coverage (equal to a 27mm lens on a full frame 35mm camera) and being an “L” series lens it’s built to professional standards, a silent USM (UltraSonic Motor) ring motor, distance scale and comes with a hood. USM motors are silent and manual focus (FTM = Full Time Manual) is possible without switching out of autofocus.
Have a look at theses reviews:
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I saw this poster yesterday in the office of a friend of mine. Great :-)
A paradise for shopping, a nightmare for your cerdit card ;-)
St. Barths is a duty free port, and shoppers will be delighted with the range and number of shops: from a shaded table by the side of the road, to the elegant displays and marble floors reminiscent of Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré in Paris.
The highest concentration of shops is in Gustavia, followed by St-Jean, with its several shopping centers. It is wise to allocated more than a single afternoon to see what’s what and where’s where.
[via St-Barths.com]
