Author: Ben

Crack

Post author By Ben
Post date February 9, 2009

[Firefox architect Mike] Connor also attacked Opera‘s claims that bundling harms competition. “Opera’s asserting something that’s provably false,” Connor said, referring to Firefox’s ever improving market share, which now stands at just over 20% worldwide. “It’s asserting that bundling leads to market share. I don’t know how you can make the claim with a straight face,” he said.

From an article in PC Pro.

I’m not sure how he can say that with a straight face. Bundling IE didn’t help its market share? I’d like some of what he’s having, thanks.

Coffee

Brewing with a VacPot

Post author By Ben
Post date February 6, 2009

In my never-ending quest to try out every coffee-brewing method known to man, I decided to get a vacuum pot. These were wildly popular earlier in the last century, but fell out of favor. Why, I don’t know, because it makes a wonderful cup of coffee.

This is a 5-cup Yama, with a Cona glass rod instead of the standard cloth filter.

Etc

Emacs is amazing

Post author By Ben
Post date February 4, 2009

It can even post directly to this weblog. Now that’s cool.

Etc

Your Moment of GMap Zen

Post author By Ben
Post date January 25, 2009

8 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, PA

Video

Everything Old is New Again

Post author By Ben
Post date January 23, 2009

I just stumbled across our Cartoon Classics channel on Joost… It’s a nice collection of some classic cartoons, like Superman, Popeye, Casper, Betty Boop, The Three Stooges… Very cool stuff.