September 2009
12 posts
Thoughts: web bloat
I’ve been using the webkit based ‘surf’ web browser for a few days now and I realised something. Firefox (which usually uses 700MB RAM with lots of tabs open) isn’t actually that bad. Seeing as surf is using 300MB with only 2 windows open.
Thus, I think the problem is obviously that the web is bloated to hell.
Excerpt from a Job Interview
terminally-incoherent:
everythinginthesky:
“So what’s your twitter username?” asked the interviewer. I soiled myself reflexively. In retrospect I think this was probably the simplest way to handle the question.
Wow… Great way to weed out a lot of candidates. It’s pretty much a lose, lose situation unless you have a stellar Twitter record.
Note to self: set twitter to private before all future...
Warning teens of perils of facebook →
Obama warns US teens of perils of facebook
The main goal of privacy is to prevent other people finding out things about you that they don’t approve of and discriminating against you because of it.
August 2009
34 posts
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who...”
– Charles Darwin (via blogut) (via voristrip) (via siddman)
No Carpet!
siddman:
Slick guy: So, do the curtains match the carpet? Hot bleached blonde: There is no carpet. Slick guy: Oh. —Starbucks, Times Square rsslolz: