I spent a lot of time in mom’s office stuck there because I was suspended or somesuch, and, since her workplace was for work, there were no games there. When she was out of the office I would sit at her Mac and use the graphing calculator to create new and interesting shapes, playing with the equations to get it to do more and more interesting things.
Turns out the story behind the development of the program is even more interesting!
via wired
If you’ve heeded my advice to get firefox for your browsing pleasure, then you may enjoy this little tidbit from devnulled, via forevergeek, via hack-a-day. Credit where credit is due, that’s my motto.
Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:
1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0”. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!
I was reading Cool Tools(rss), when I discovered this website called Modest Needs. It’s a great idea. Small-scale philanthropy for people who aren’t wealthy. If you’ve partnered with paypal you can easily make an automated donation. They give out very small grants to people who need to get through a tough time. $200 bucks at the right time can mean a whole hell of a lot.
They operate on a tiny budget, spending $0 on advertising, $0 on fundraising and disbursing grants within 72 hours of approval.
I like this.
Why is it that today I had a sudden urge to listen to Hate Kill Destroy by those lovely balladeers The Business?
Oh yeah.
My bad.
Last night was our winter holiday festival joyous celebration for my job. After everything closed down there, we moved next door and I had the joy of meeting the 1955 Heisman trophy winner Howard “Hopalong” Cassady.
I was ecstatic, thinking that he meant he was a fictional cowboy named Hopalong Cassidy.
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If you haven’t heard, you should. First Jay Z released his supposedly final Black album and included an a capella disc. Then people started doing what they do if you leave that sort of thing hanging out. Hence came DJ Dangermouse’s “The Grey Album“, a mix of the great beyonce rider’s Black album and the Beatle’s white album, which inspired a video and a host of other mashups. I’m rocking “Jay-Zeezer: The Black and Blue Album” right now.
Also, I have to mention the Kleptones and their “A Night at the Hip Hopera” which should make Freddie Mercury smile, if not his estate’s lawyers.
Sam and I went down to DC this weekend and attended the wedding of my lovely friend Kiran. She married the wonderfully warm and funny Salil in a ceremony that was so unlike most of the weddings I’ve seen.
This Indian wedding seemed to be much more relaxed but much longer than the weddings I am used to. Everyone looked amazing and ate and smiled the whole way through.
It was great. We had such a good time with the martians and the dinosaurs.
Do check out the photoset, won’t you?
