No matter what you think of Microsoft or Office, this is absolutely excellent!
I’m an MS Office fan and look forward to the rumours of Firefox support I’ve heard for Office 2010’s cloud version. Take what you may (hopefully a few laughs) from this video.
Sorry that today’s post isn’t more substantial, I spent much of the day helping a friend move.
So I’ll leave you with this video, nay naught but a link (embedding be-eth disabled per request)
It’s a Battlestar Galactica mashup looking at some of the darkest moments of humanity in BSG. Spoiler warning.
The name comes from a verse of Caprican poetry quoted in one of the episodes which I am disappointed is not actually in any work:
“From the darkness, you must fall,
failed and weak, to darkness all” (the Caprican poet Kataris)
I just think that line embodies Battlestar Galactica. I’m currently, by the way, going through a withdrawl as Pushing Daisies (my other series) is over and my next Battlestar fix isn’t until November when Sci-fi (and SPACE) release Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2 hour movie that portrays the series from the Cylon side), and then that’s all until Caprica rolls out in early 2010 (I saw the Caprica pilot and fell in love. Be warned, however, that it is very explicit – but not gratuitously)
And yes, I plan on doing something with my Portfolio section.
Aaaand Firefox 3.5 drops today. This post is a Three-In-One. Part One is a Firefox Overview, Part Two is how to give Firefox some (more) serious speed, and Part Three is how to stop wasting your time on the web.
Here’s your overview. I was going to write one all by myself but the Mozilla team’s great quick tour really defeats the purpose:
It’s interesting how “buying gifts” has become a universal euphamism when it comes to Private Browsing…
That aside, it’s all about the speed:
There are also all the usability features which are great but don’t really *innovate* as much as they follow Google’s (amazing) Chrome browser.
As someone who designs and builds websites, however, what I’m really excited about is Open Video. Open Video uses the OpenSource OGG-Theora video codec (which is included by default in Linux, BSD, and Solaris systems and available for Windows and OS X) to do some really neat stuff: Continue reading
http://storyofstuff.com/
Take a peek on over there and watch the video. This is a really eye-opening and articulate explanation of what goes on in the production of material goods and really makes me think about the industrial concept.
Only too issues: She labels (or seems to label) all synthetic chemicals as toxins (and she says toxics instead of toxins) and she doesn’t clarify if she includes food in this system (mostly for her statement that 99% of things bought are trashed within 6 months)
Her take on computers and planned-obsolesence is primative: she believes that technology is designed to be obsolete as an implementation of Moore’s Law. For those who aren’t familiar with Mr. Moore’s assertion, it’s the idea that the number of transistors in a computer chip will double every 18 months. This effectively means that human computing power doubles every 18 months. It also transfers in to things like hard-disk space and internet speeds (though not exactly). She justifies her assertion by opening the computer up… and looking at the fan and processor. As someone who installs these, I can tell you that there is a huge difference with the different chips. AMD chips are different than Intel chips. Dual cores are different than Single Cores. etc.
It does hold true for Windows Vista, however.
For percieved-obsolescence she uses a computer monitor. Again, a CRT vs a flatscreen = huge difference. Flatscreens generally use less energy, they have better colour, they’re easier to read on (CRTs give me headaches, personally).
Fashion is a GREAT example though.
Love this quote given in the video though:
“Our enormously productive economy… demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods in to rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption… we need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate.”
Oh, and eventually I *will* write a play-by-play of my vacation to the Dutch Caribbean. Later.
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