http://q.queso.com/ random ramblings from a geek doctor en-us rss-address@queso.com Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:33:02 -0500 http://q.queso.com/archives/002293 I'm overall pretty happy about the release of Firefox 3, but am I the only one who's seeing sporadic issues on Macs? On my iMac (2.1 GHz PowerPC G5), it's painfully slow, so slow that I've started using Safari as... http://q.queso.com/archives/002292 For those who are all excited about Twitabit, the service that promises to queue up Twitter postings if the service is down, consider these two factlets: Twitabit asks you to type in your Twitter password -- as in, you're on... http://q.queso.com/archives/002291 I know it's been quiet around here; being a dad is enough fun that I usually come home from work and only want to play. That being said, I thought this was worth breaking radio silence for: I'm so happy... http://q.queso.com/archives/002290 Talk about an awesome, awesome graph, showing how history managed to be made yesterday. (But of course, you can't put too much on the "history was made" part, since whoever came out of the Dem contest, history would have been... http://q.queso.com/archives/002289 Yesterday's Times Freakonomics column was a great one. A Missouri engineer and his daughter did a seven-month study collecting the weather forecasts of their local television stations (and NOAA) and compared them to the actual weather -- and as experience... http://q.queso.com/archives/002288 Anytime an article contains the phrase "These are sweeping generalizations that are intended to provoke a heated debate, so try not to get too offended", you can be sure that it's a total piece of crap penned by an intellectually-dishonest... http://q.queso.com/archives/002287 This might be my favorite news article correction ever, from my old school paper, the Columbia Spectator: CORRECTION: This submission misstates that one Dalai Lama admitted to having sex with hundreds of men and women while knowing that he had... http://q.queso.com/archives/002286 I am incredibly excited about the launch of Flickr's new video uploading abilities -- what a welcome addition to an already-awesome online service! (I also love Heather Champ's silly little intro video to the service... nice work, that.) With the... http://q.queso.com/archives/002285 So the more astute of you have noticed that things around here quieted down a lot over the past nine or ten months, and those of you who click through the links know why... so I guess it's time to... http://q.queso.com/archives/002284 On one hand, we have Harriet Miers and Josh Bolton, one the one-time lawyer for the President of the United States and the other the former White House Chief of Staff. Both of them were allegedly involved in the White... http://q.queso.com/archives/002283 I gotta say, this idea -- a professor intentionally introducing a single falsehood into each of his lectures, challenging the class to find it and expose it -- is pretty great for a slew of reasons. Given a sufficiently dedicated... http://q.queso.com/archives/002282 Bill Simmons, ESPN's Sports Guy and possibly the biggest Boston sports homer in the world, found himself at this year's Super Bowl without his lucky Wes Welker jersey. He grabbed a Randy Moss jersey from the vendors inside the stadium,... http://q.queso.com/archives/002281 Tomorrow's Chesapeake Primary day, the day when DC, Virginia, and Maryland voters turn out to help choose the next Presidential candidates -- and with the tight race on the Democratic Party side, the primaries really matter quite a bit. Here... http://q.queso.com/archives/002280 Hallelujah, the SuperDuper update to bring Leopard compatibility is now out! (For those who don't know what the hell I'm talking about, or who might know and don't use it, SuperDuper is by far the best backup app for Macs.... http://q.queso.com/archives/002279 This Mozilla bug report thread might very well be the best thread I've ever read. There are a lot of developers who truly want to help track down a bug that someone's reporting, but since they're unable to replicate the...