I mean, bad, bad, bad memory leak issues. FF used to be bad – I’d leave it on for a few hours and it’d suck up 150MB of system RAM and need to be killed. FF2 seems to be much better than that – still some memory bloating, but relatively stable and I can generally close it before I have to kill it.
IE7 just pumped 350MB of RAM into Windows Live Messenger (don’t ask me how, but it was clearly IE that was the issue because when I killed that… well, problem solved).
Come on, MS. I like you guys better than you deserve. IE7 is beginning to feel like a piece of badly designed bloatware. And if you guys have inked some kind of deal with Intel to make me upgrade my PC just so I can cope with IE7, you’ve got another thing coming. I’ll just go FF all the way, baby, and deal with the consequences on Outlook Web Access and my Sharepoint websites.
I can’t believe I installed this piece of £”*$&£($& £$(*…
No idea how I missed this song when it came out. I mean, it was a little optimistic (but what are musicians for?) — but is very moving. Have also just seen Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth (well, I guess it’s everyone’s Inconvenient Truth) and got some (remote) sense of the scale of the problems from that (yes, yes, I know 650,000 years isn’t a very long time in geological terms, but I believe we’re having an impact on the planet nonetheless).
Oh – its Green Day and U2 performing a song call ‘The Saints are Coming’ — in the video troops return from Iraq to help the Katrina victims.
Who says you don’t learn anything when you spend a few evenings too tired to do anything but ‘channel surf’ on YouTube….
Getting into Myspace a little now. Don’t know many people who use it but the fact that Weezer and Weird Al, as well as Ben Folds and a few others, are on The Public Betas friends list is fairly awesome. I mean, I doubt they pay all that much attention to us, but how cool is it that they’re on there? And you do feel ‘connected’ in some way to the band, even if it is just the bands’ interns frantically clicking ‘accept’ on every friend invitation they receive.
Having some interesting conversations at work about Wikis and want to have a conversation with a freelance web designer to discuss the possibility of doing some on/off design work with us.
Noticed that Hugh has some Blog/Wiki designers on his Wiki… and, in the spirit of his Wiki (“sort of “An Open-Source ‘Craigslist’ for Bloggers” etc) I’m asking for people’s knowledge and recommendations.
Email me at my work email (armand.davidAT brands2life.com) if you’d like to chat, or leave a comment. Thanks.
Regular readers will know I saw the movie back in September, and loved it. Been following the hype with some interest, from Borat’s response to the Kazakh government following their criticism, to his appearancesatpremieres, and more, and simply can’t get enough. There’s something very captivating about that silly man.
Interestingly, in my hunt for more Borat related content, I found a couple of relatively sane interviews with Sacha Baron Cohen (playing himself). I don’t think Sacha does interviews any more (only Borat, Ali G and Bruno), but its definitely interesting to see the man behind the mustache.
Kazakhstan the greatest nation in the world, all the other countries are run by little girls…
Ok, so Tom was around today and helped finish a second song for the Public Betas. Also gave me the motivation to fix the bridge on the other song and now they’re both up on the band’s myspace page. Sorry if it sounds a bit amateurish – a professional musician/sound engineer I’m not. But it’s fun, and hopefully funny. You can listen to the first two songs – the Firefox Love Song and Transparent Emotion (the Google Talk Presence Information Song) on Myspace.
The band is me (all instruments and some vocals), Tom and Chris (songwriting expertise and geek knowledge), Mazmo (vocals on the Firefox love song and hopefully more in the future) and Pob has helped out (general whiz on all production and musical things ever). Mazmo and Pob are The Minutes Music, so you should check that out — they sound well good.
Enjoy! And add us as friends on myspace if you’re that way inclined! Chris, we need to work on music videos. Think: youtube sensation.
The Ninja finally made an outing last night at Kate’s Halloween party. Photos here for the curious.
It was a very fun evening, and was very honoured to be given third prize for my costume (some stickers). Have never won a costume prize before! It may have been something to do with the fact that I promised to mop the floor with everyone’s souls if I didn’t win something, but hey… Ninjas do as Ninjas are.
Dressed as a Ninja, stalking across London last night, I realised some of the more practical issues Ninjas must have to face. First of all, whilst a Ninja may not have keys or a mobile phone (they would never enter a building via a door and communicate via advanced telepathy), the costumes have no obvious place for storing Shuriken. Ninjas have NO POCKETS.
So do they use Manbags? Another question for Ask a Ninja, methinks…
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