http://techdirt.com/articles/20080610/0146101362.shtml

I have been reading about this the last few days. The gist is that with Google, people are now finding it hard to sit down with a book and read.

Taking a completely different read on the situation, I am completely ambivalent to whether this is good or bad for humanity. More interesting is to see our human mind at work. As soon as situations change, our very mind makes the best use it can out of it. It has literally changed its way of thinking to utilize new resources. Any normal animal, this would require evolution, at least a number of years to work through a changing circumstances. In humans, we make such a drastic change within a single lifetime. Absolutely amazing.

Now, I’ve never owned one of those motorola phones. I also have never owned one of those fangled iphones.

Still, from the outside looking it, it would look like the Iphone is quickly becoming the next RAZR.

The question is, if it becomes the next RAZR, is this good or bad for Apple? On the one hand, Apple has shown with the Ipod that they can have mainstream appeal while still maintaining their high brand name. On the other hand, RAZR has shown that phones that have become mainstream do not keep their users interested and dilute what use to be a very strong brand.

It will be interesting to see which is the case for the Iphone.

Just downloaded Firefox3 to try it out.

Good news:
Scribefire and FireFTP both still work. I use scribefire more than fireFTP but both as very useful extensions.
Tamper Data also works. Great for debugging.

Bad news:
Firebug doesn’t work. This is a horrendous killer for me. This extension is critical to my job.

In the 10 minutes I have played with it so far, it seems pretty good. I especially love the smaller shortcut bar, means it fits a lot more links than before.

Test

http://checkoutblog.com/entries/2008/5/29/the_incredible_shrinking_laundry_deterg.aspx

Ever since finding it, I have absolutely loved the Walmart blog, and find how amazing a transformation in how I feel about the company came about because of it.

Prior to the blog, I always thought of Walmart as the big scary store. It is out to pay low and make profits purely based on size. Yet, reading the blog, you can find all the good things they do too (like this particular post about detergent). It is great to see a company use their power (buying power) both for good and evil. The good probably doesn’t come out nearly as often as it should.

So, this is the amazing play of the game from Jason Maxiell.
My description is “its the signature Tayshaun Prince block with a clear Maxiell flair”

Jason Maxiell Chases Down Kevin Garnett For the Huge Block

So, I have noticed that the posts that are really useful, both when I do my own searches and when others have searched my site are the ones which expound on something that is hard to find on the net. I have looked up Google Ad tags, others have looked up the Chinese Farmers screenname on my site.

Now, instead of researching my problem, solving it, then forgetting all about it, I am going to post a quick blog on it. In hopes to help others in similar situations, I thought I’d make quick blog posts about my exact problem so that Google Search will pick it up, and next time someone runs into the same problem, they can read the post, try it and move on.

With the most recent patch (2.4.2) to World of Warcraft, my 132 errors (from 2.4.1) that happened anytime I was on a griffon became 134 errors anytime I moved.

Finally being fed up, I looked all around and there seems to be plenty of people who ran into this problem, with no real solution in sight.

So, for those who are like me and have a relatively old graphics card, the trick with the ATI Radeon (at least mine) was to go back to an OLD driver. I went back to 7.12 instead of using the 8.x series of drivers that they are currently at. So far, this has fixed my problem, and if in future it doesn’t, I will update.

UPDATE 06/15/2008 11:26am EST : It looks like the 7.12 still causes 134 crashes. I am going to try yet earlier version of drivers later today.

UPDATE 06/22/2008 4:05pm EST : Been using the Omega drivers version .252 which if I remember correctly is based on Catalyst 6.14. These stopped all crashing. Looks like X800 is too old to use newer drivers.

http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2008/05/transparent_pos.php

Can you imagine how successful this product would’ve been back when books were significantly more ubiquitous.

I think they should try and sell this to college students. What better way to try and keep a used book new than to not leave any marks in it.

The losers of this product? Guys like me, who preferred their used books completely marked up for them. Its like Cliff notes on the cheap.