After messing for hours with asynchronous messages and RESTful BDD tests, I feel it’s time for a post void of any nutritional contents.
Internet gunned down. Ironically, my Internet connection died while trying to post this, though not from live munitions:
Internet service providers in the U.S. experienced a service slowdown Monday after fiber-optic cables near Cleveland were apparently sabotaged by gunfire.
It’s time we start realizing that Web Rage is a serious problem.
Downgrading to Vista. I heard some good things about Vista … from the Microsoft Web site. Most other people are recommending we wait for Microsoft to get it right in Vista 3.0. Zoli, not so happy we his first-day cost of ownership:
So let’s get this straight: Vista makes changes to my system, to the most important program I use, Firefox, without asking me, without telling me what those changes were, how to undo them. And if I want to prevent such aggression in the future, I should go to the “IT Professionals†site.
Yeah, I wouldn’t either.
It’s settled. I read some good arguments in favor of adding closures in Java, but also counter arguments in favor of staying the course and declaring mission accomplished on the current syntax. Michael Easter, however, notes that closures are the people’s popular opinion, and I can’t argue with facts.
The new black. Sony plans to recycle one pound of your old gizmos for every pound of new gadgets sold. Helps you feel better about junking that old 6mp camera for a sharper model.
GreenDimes helps you stop junk before it hits your mail box, sort of Akismet for dead trees, except they will also plant ten trees in your name, you know, to offset all those smiley packages.
Safe mapping. Actually this one is a serious issue. 7th from last, Oakland is not exactly the safest city in the US (San Jose, you’re not having a great year either) Enter Oakland Crimespotting, which lets you know what that siren sound was all about. It’s also one of the most amazing mapping apps I’ve seen (what we used to call mashups, before Facebook taught us better).
Sunroof for your car, $24.99.