Archive for January, 2006

Sometimes Buses Break

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Seattle buses have a pretty cool feature in that they attach with poles to cables over head that deliver electricity. This way, the buses move us around town and we don’t have to burn anything like a bunch of cavemen.
Well, it seems those polls have their limit and today I came upon one such [...]

Vegetarian Dim Sum in Seattle
Vegetarian Bistro

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Vegetarian Bistro
668 South King Street
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 624-8899

Finally, Seattle has it’s own vegetarian Dim Sum, first spotted on the slog, with the newly opened Vegetarian Bistro. Dim sum is three dollars for three pieces, which is reasonable considering it doesn’t take a whole lot of this stuff to fill you up.
In New York, I [...]

My Safari vs. Firefox Results

Friday, January 13th, 2006

I spent the last week trying to use Firefox as my primary browser, an experiment to see if I should have it replace Safari. The results? As of today, I’m back to Safari. Why?

Safari:

has inline spellchecking from an OS-wide dictionary.
runs much faster, especially when loading up multiple tabs.
has much better integration with [...]

Gains and Losses with the MacBook Pro

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Lost:

Firewire 800 (This may signal a very short life for Firewire 800)
PC Card slot (Replaced with emerging but lesser supported ExpressCard slot)
Modem (We’re all using wifi when traveling anyway, right?)
S-Video out (An adapter can be used on the DVI out port)

Gained:

Intel Processor
ExpressCard/34 slot
Integrated iSight Camera
Magnetic power cable (I love this.)
Magnetic lid
Optical Audio
Frontrow with Remote Control [...]

Nice Logo We’re Having

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Google has a great logo up today celebrating the birthday of Loius Braille.
At this point I realize that “Google has a nice logo today.” is essentially the geek equivalent for “Nice weather we’re having.”