Archive for July, 2007
One of the biggest aggravation with Internet Explorer is its listing of URLs in the address bar history. I could allay this aggravation by using bookmarks, which I do, but I don’t want to make a lot of bookmarks that clutter up my UI or even my Bookmarks list. What I do instead is use Firefox as my main browser of choice.
The reason I use Firefox (amongst other reasons), and I notice Safari does this too, is that it lists the URL history according to the most “used” link. For example, say I visit somesite.com and I find out they have an Australian parallel site called somesite.com.au as well. So I visit both. Now while the Australian site is informative, I visit somesite.com more regularly. Firefox will always list this at the top when I type something like “som” and it shows the URL history. Not so with Internet Explorer, which works differently.
Internet Explorer doesn’t list the URLs according to most used. It seems to list it in a weird alphabetical organization. Rather than listing somesite.com at the top, it’ll list somesimte.com.au first, then any subpages within that site. Finally it’ll list somesite.com and whatever subpages. I’m under the assumption, where alphabetical organization is concerned, that somesite.com is supposed to be listed first, then somesite.com.au. And it can’t be that Internet Explorer is listing by frequent clicking because I do use somesite.com more than the .au version.
Aside from that, Internet Explorer is… well, still not fun to use. Even their Developer Toolbar doesn’t work (at least on my work laptop, which is where I need it the most). Oh well, that’s my rant for today!
… though the day is still young and I might have more.
Kawaii desu yo!
I pity the fool who thinks otherwise.
Last night’s ARTafterDARK event was pretty interesting. I did get there later than I intended since I decided to get a haircut beforehand. And what a haircut it is.
Enough of boring, it’s time for some texture!
Anyway, back to the event. So, after about 20 minutes of driving around to find parking, I got one (through a little cheatery) and entered a world of bodies. Lots of people were there including some co-workers of mine. At first, I was alone, stranded in the sea of more-fashionably-dressed people, I found the mini-bar (too expensive), then the food stall (much too expensive), then the bathroom (quick break!) and finally I ventured into a gallery to be blessed by cool air conditioned atmosphere.
I caught up with my friends a little bit later. Or should I say, one of my friends found me and dragged me to where the rest were sitting. Finding out where they were, I looked at the photo above and come to find out, I took a snapshot of one of them. 
There was a performance in another area with a stage and I was able to get a glimpse, nothing more. A bit sad but the performers ended up walking about and so one of my friends snagged my iPhone and took a few pictures. It was a pretty fun night. Got to see some art and get nostalgic as well as hang out with my co-workers and friends. And I even got to see whacky and crazy peoples.
After the event (we were kicked out of a gallery; they sure are prompt about closing time!), some were thinking of going out to eat. But after that long exposure to many people, I figured it was time to head off. Besides, I had to take my car in for service this morning and didn’t want to stay out too late.
If I go to the next event, I’ll make sure to take more photos (co-worker took the last two images and a couple others)… and dress more sleek.
I’ve noticed a trend lately that most of the songs that I really dig tend to be sad songs. First it were the songs Naturaleza Muerta and Hijo de la luna sung by Sarah Brightman. Then it was Wuthering Heights (sorry Kate Bush fans, I like Hayley Westenra’s rendition). Now it’s the song Personal by Stars.
Personal is about a guy posting an ad in the Personals and a woman responding. The guy sets up a meeting and the woman gets to the meetup and is left hanging. Afterwards, the guy posts another ad with slightly different wording that presumably excludes the girl who initially responded.
Very sad, especially coupled with the solo piano section. And every time I listen to the song I see the scene in the movie “You’ve Got Mail” where Tom Hanks’ character leaves Meg Ryan’s character hanging in the coffee shop.
Arrgghh! But the song is so good.
An article mentioned how today’s operating systems may be behind the times. In a way, I agree with it. I was an instant fanboy when I first picked up Neuromancer by William Gibson. I did what I could to get every bit of Cyberpunk I could. To think, back in the 80’s that it was far fetched to have a PDA that played video in full color. To think that there’d be cellphones that wouldn’t also be used as a lethal weapon, that could play all sorts of media, not just make phone calls.
But in the here and now, we have PDA’s that plays full video, that can be your music player and can even access the Internet via Wi-Fi. But that’s not all, we also have cellphones that are PDA’s and some that redefine the user experience, making it a wonderful tool not just for making phone calls. However, we don’t have Cyberspace decks that use neural interfaces or fingertip sensors. We don’t share a “consensual hallucination” to surf through the Internet, we still use monitors, we still use two dimensional interfaces to work with our data. While it would be great to have Cyberspace decks and to have full blow three dimensional operating systems, I don’t think we’re all that far behind.
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