Flock 0.7 is out. It might end up becoming my primary browser for one reason: it gives me everything I love about Firefox, but feels far less bloated on OS X. Flickr/del.icio.us integration is nice, but being able to use Firefox extensions is even nicer.
June, 2006
Jun30
Overlooking Haifa
Jun29
So why has my party, the party of small government, lately adopted the practices of our opponents who believe the bigger the government the better? I’m afraid it’s because at times we value our incumbency more than our principles. We came to office to reduce the size of government. Lately, we have increased the size of government in order to stay in office.
Jun28
Hot damn — Safari has a JavaScript debugger now. I’m really impressed with the WebKit project’s recent progress toward a better platform for JavaScript.
Jun22
Herbert Samuel Street (South)
I’m in Tel Aviv for work and won’t return to the U.S. until July 7. It’s my first time in Israel. I got in early this evening  around 5pm Tel Aviv time, or 9am Austin time  and spent a little time walking around and catching dinner before jet lag finally dragged me into bed. Expect this tumblelog to adopt a temporarily-Hebraic tinge.
Jun16
Using Ajax for HTTP Authentication within an HTML form. Clever use of Ajax that transcends the buzzword phenomenon.
I love the WebKit nightlies, but every so often my plugins stop working entirely (Flash, Quicktime, etc.), forcing me to trash my prefs file and relaunch. A minor hassle, yes, but I’m tired of setting my tabbed-browsing preferences for the eleventh time. Shiira is, in many respects, fantastic, but I can’t seem to find an add-on that’ll do find-as-you-type. This is a deal-breaker. Why does the OS X browser landscape have to be so frustrating?
Is Ballmer going to be another John Sculley, who nearly drove Apple into extinction because the board of directors thought that selling Pepsi was good preparation for running a computer company? The cult of the MBA likes to believe that you can run organizations that do things that you don’t understand.
Jun15
Senior vice presidents [at Microsoft] sometimes review UI designs of individual features, a nod to Steve Jobs that would in better days have betokened a true honor but for its randomizing effects. Give me a cathedral, give me a bazaar — really, either would be great. Just not this middle world in which some decisions are made freely while others are made by edict, with no apparent logic separating each from the other but the seeming curiosity of someone in charge.
— philipsu
