written 4 Sep 2008 in the late evening dusk
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The Internet is pretty cool, or so my grandfather might say, were he still alive and not 105 years old. But what about an update to the mobile version of Safari?
1. Pressing and holding the back button should show you a list of previous sites, rather than forcing you to load each page as you go back.
2. That orange button in Safari/Firefix that lets you go back to the original page or search results page.
3. A text resize button. It’s a tiny browser, let us make the text large enough to read please.
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written 4 Sep 2008 in the earliest morning
Everyone knows that global warming isn’t real, that trees are made for chopping, and anyone who says otherwise is a bleeding heart hippie asshole. This world has two realities: war makes money and refer to reality number one.
Anything fantastical, dinosaurs, sea creatures, saber-toothed tigers, they’re all of the past, no longer relevant and such things could not exist today. Why is that? Because natural evolution pushed out any animals which were naturally a threat to humans, not because of some pre-ordained right that humans have to rule the world, but for other reasons, creating the conditions that were right for humans to thrive, perhaps? Or is it simply that humans, whether white skinned conquerors or native savages, are always too stupid to realize how to live with nature and not just suck it bone dry.
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written 3 Sep 2008 in the late evening dusk
I often find myself, as a designer of the Internet, in need of providing screenshots that actually set inside of a browser’s chrome, so that I can show an example of a web page as it would appear in the browser itself.
I’m guessing there are some other folks out there as well who find themselves in this same situation, requiring a screenshot of a particular page as it appears in the actual browser, and therefore I’ve made this simple Photoshop Template (PSD) for the downloading.
Now everyone knows that Safari is the best browser, for many reasons: 1) it’s the most beautiful, 2) Apple made it, so somehow the Lord Jesus Christ must have been involved, 3) it runs on Webkit, etc. etc.
This screenshot was actually taken in a Firefox installation set up with GrApple, so it basically looks very similar to Safari. There are multiple layers for writing your own Titles, URLs, or Google bar searches.
Enjoy. :!
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written last Sunday over a light lunch
Checking in with the W3Schools Browser Statistics, it looks like Internet Explorer is dangerously close to losing it’s majority share of the browser market.
| IE7 |
IE6 |
IE5 |
Firefox |
Mozilla |
Safari |
Opera |
| 26.4% |
25.3% |
0.3% |
42.6% |
0.5% |
2.5% |
1.9% |
| 52% |
47.5% |
According to that, Internet Explorer’s current versions hold 52% of the browser market share. The other major players hold 47.5%, which leaves half a percent to all of the other guys out there. Just 5 years ago IE held over 84% of the market share.
That’s a major hit.
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written last Friday in the early afternoon
Motorists often feel and state that there isn’t room for bicycles on the street. Some beep and scream and go as far as to try and run people off the road. These people are fools, ignorant to the law, and a disgrace to humanity. Truly, unamerican, at the least, violent criminals at worst.
Today, while riding my bike to deposit a check in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, not traveling more than 3 miles total, I was cut off twice and denied my right of way twice. Understandable, as I’ve come to expect small mindedness, rudeness and sheer stupidity from small town and suburban Pennsylvania. After all, these are the same people who raise their children as racists, though they have never lived near anyone who wasn’t white. The same people who don’t even bother with listening to Presidential debates because Barack Obama’s name rhymes with something.
What did surprise me was when a woman dressed in a tan police officer’s uniform honks like crazy at me and then swirves toward me, forcing me into oncoming traffic, which thankfully was going very slowly due to a red light.
So it’s no wonder cyclists swirve in and out of traffic and ignore street laws, because they’re not afforded the same respect motorists give eachother.
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written last Friday while the sun tried, at least, rising
So I enjoyed, very much, watching Barack Obama give his speech last night. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love as much as the next guy the sweeping, dramatically colorized, superhero stance and big smile pictures of Obama, and if he were passing out Kool Aid, I’d gladly drink it, however — what I was mostly impressed with was the fact that he gave specifics as to what he planned to do while President. That’s something that I’d never heard George Bush, John Kerry or John McCain do. Anyone who can’t tell you exactly what they’re doing is probably either lacking a plan or dishonest. Ambiguity is the main weapon of the liar.
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written last Wednesday over dinner
I know you’ve all been clamoring for this info, and now it’s finally here: Why Nathan Swartz switched back to Firefox after becoming such a devoted Safari user. Enjoy. 
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written last Tuesday while the school buses headed home
Google is being the good guys again. Think about the snow, also known as fuzz, on your TV. Not your big shiny flat panel HD TV thingie, but your regular old “I used to watch GI Joe on this TV and by golly, I liked it” TV. Okay so now remember all of the snow/fuzz I was talking about. Now that TV is going digital, there is going to be a lot of those snowy fuzz channels left over.
Google wants to make that available for WiFi. Lots of Internet, everywhere.
View the video or sign the petition to help make it happen.
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written 21 Aug 2008 over dinner
The City Paper recently asked me to take part in their wiki dedicated to improving transportation in the grand city of Pittsburgh. The idea is that if enough people show interest and take action, then our transit systems and pedestrian/bike-friendliness in general will reap the rewards.
I believe in it, and have begun making contributions when and how I can. I’d definitely recommend having a stop over and looking through the wiki, even signing up if you’ve got some valuable info to contribute.
pghwiki.org.
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written 20 Aug 2008 over dinner
I caught an article in Pop City today about a coffee shop in Pittsburgh’s North Side owned and run by 7 friends who all moved to the city to make a difference. None of them had really lived or grown up here, though apparently a couple of them had some ties.
It’s a great little story and I’ll definitely be checking this out on our next loop through the PGH.
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