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I spent the weekend visiting my parents. Normally, I drive but I dropped off my car to get serviced at their local dealer. This meant taking the train home and you’re looking at the stub given to me by the conductor to show I paid and where I should be getting off.
I read about GlimmerBlocker a while back but never installed it until now. At the time, I figured that installing a system wide http proxy would slow down my browsing more so than Adblock for Firefox or Safari ever did. But after installing and using it for an hour or so, I can’t imagine why I ever thought that. I’ve switched back to my Webkit nightly builds so long as I have GlimmerBlocker installed and enabled.
Personally, I’ve always liked Safari/Webkit over Firefrox. I always thought the Gecko rendering engine was slower than Webkit. It never fully conformed to web standards although it did pass the Acid2 test; beta versions of Firefox 3.1 still can’t pass the Acid3 test, though. I like the idea of extensions but they only add to the slowness and memory issues. To be fair, Firefox 3.0 is better at mem usage than 2.0 and Firefox 3.1 beta is better than 3.0. I’ve also enabled TraceMonkey.
But Safari and the Webkit nightly builds are much faster than Gecko. While I personally haven’t checked to see how much memory its using, I can’t detect any slowness in my computer; I’ll look up the mem usage shortly, though. Webkit also passes the Acid3 test which, for me who supports open source code and web standards, is important – so much so that I’m willing to support any browser, OS, or language that is free and available to the public.
But with the extensions I added to Safari, Webkit would crash on occasion. It also was slower at rendering because AdBlock was butchering the engine. Enter GlimmerBlocker: an http proxy which subscribes to ad filters just like AdBlock does and denies requests made to know ad servers and blocks ad elements. Its not perfect at blocking all ads but that’s by design. The authors would rather see pages render correctly than break the look, feel, or functionality of a site. So while some limitations exist, I haven’t seen anything dramatic enough as to keep me from using it. The plus is that its system wide and would work with Firefox if I wanted it to.
But since Webkit is faster for me, adheres to standards, and is now a lot more stable thanks to GlimmerBlocker allowing me to remove the AdBlock plugin, I’ve ditched Firefox once again. If you’re a Mac user, you might want to give GlimmerBlocker a try – even if you’re a diehard Firefox fan. But if you’re a standards guy like me, you’ll definitely love how well it works with the latest nightly Webkit build.
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Sun, moon and stars show up with their daily rise and set. The beauty of our celestial phenomena is increased by the accelerated time lapse technique showing the apparent motion of the sky due to earth’s rotation.
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Time lapse video: The Sky in Motion by Till Credner, AlltheSky.com
This is a frame from a video. You can watch it on Vimeo.
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My wife’s family has always celebrated Little Christmas. Today’s celebration, like all the others, were at our place and here is what our living/dining room looked like before the festivities began.
This picture reminds me of a Pottery Barn catalog for some reason.
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My wife and I are enjoying the last few days of my "staycation" in New York City. Yesterday, we went to the MTA’s Transit Museum where I saw all the old cars used on the Subway and elevated lines going back to 1904!! I was only able to spend about an hour there – not long enough for a history buff like me – but had such a great time I’d want to come back anyway.
This picture is of the straps that used to be used by the passengers to keep steady in a crowded train in 1917. Its where New Yorkers get the term straphangers even though straps were phased out with cars introduced in the 50’s & 60s.
If you have the opportunity to visit the NYC MTA Transit Museum, I highly recommend it – for those staycationers who live here like me or those vacationers who come to The Big Apple for fun – you won’t regret it.
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