I'm finding it hard to have nothing to say.
Braving the icy north, Tony toils away at his workstation. “Compute, damn you!” he mutters into his thinning notebook. His fingers carefully scrawl the runes of a foreign language called “math”. Somewhere, a watch beeps. His bloodshot eyes peer up at the nearest clock. With a dry chuckle, he realizes that he’s now a year older. “Happy birthday to me…” he breathes as turns back to his stubborn figures. The watch ticks on.
Or maybe he’s watching The Office; I don’t know.
Happy Birthday!
Today is the day of birth for:
Happy Birthday to you all. Some would think that having three birthdays in the same day means that this post is three times as clever. Those people would be wrong.
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Some of you may have heard about this over the weekend, but Google leaked an announcement of its new, open source web browser, dubbed Google Chrome. I say “leaked” because it appears they (snail) mailed some press materials that showed up a day early. The announcement was meant for today, not yesterday. As such, there’s little to nothing online from the Internet giant.
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html was sent a Scott McCloud illustrated comic book talking about the new Chrome web browser. Scott McCloud is awesome, if you’ve never heard of him.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html is Google’s “oops” post.
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ is a Google book with scanned pages of the comic book. It’s a great read, and the web browser is explained in a way that is entertaining as well as informative, all without being technical.
http://www.google.com/chrome is the URL at which (presumably) we’ll be able to download Chrome for Windows when it’s released. Apple and Linux versions are in the works.
http://ejohn.org/blog/google-chrome-process-manager/ is John Resig (creator of Javascript library jQuery)’s take on what Chrome can mean for web developers in particular.
It’ll be interesting to see how Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple, Opera and others respond to this. What do you think? Is the browser market too cluttered? Is there room for improvement? Would you consider switching browsers?
Besides being a cool word, Ubiquity is a new tool from Mozilla Labs. They’ve been doing some very interesting things with their UI team. This is essentially Quicksilver/Enso + Greasemonkey.
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
I hope that this birthday you at least get your cat back. Otherwise, maybe a good steak dinner. But definitely the cat.
Sorry this is late! I hope you had a great day. Though, I guess your day was filled with Adam and Dutch, so… do the best you can.
Here’s too many happy years!
Just a little better than taking up smoking.
I could probably find nerd rape for cheaper than that.
Hope you have a great day!
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