Archive for April, 2005

Blazing Fox Attack

This morning at 8:58 AM PST, Mozilla Firefox got its 50 millionth download. Only three months ago, it was at 25 million, and three months before that, Firefox 1.0 hit the internets. Elsewhere, it’s being reported that Firefox market share has gone up to 10%, with IE falling down to under 84%. […]

Graphics Whores

Anyone who’s been gaming knows of these creatures. They don’t care about anything related to a game except for the graphics. These are the people who go ‘Holy crap! Doom III is an awesome game because it has uber realistic graphics that scare the crap out of you!’ and shun anything that’s […]

The Science of Composition

For a few months now, I’ve come to the startling conclusion that Grade 11 Chemistry is a pile of crap. Come, let’s examine this statement.
First of all, the teacher is a lying, anal-retentive, mood-swinging guy. It doesn’t help when ‘the test so big it should be an exam’ takes everybody half an hour […]

Strike me down with all of your hatred…

Google, long time hero of the web and king of search, may now be seduced by the dark side now that it’s a publicly traded company. Word is that Google is now serving ads that aren’t related to the content of the page you’re looking at and even serving graphical ads. Now then, […]

It’s Not About Me

So there’s this lovely book reading program that’s not quite working out in Hosanna. One of the problems is that no one is really reading so the people that do read have read the few books that are still going around which is not many. But, I did manage to snag The Purpose […]