Mar 25 2008
Eragon by Christopher PaoliniI hadn’t had any real intention of reading Eragon before a couple of weeks ago: the charges leveled at it (that it’s was a mishmash of…
Mar 23 2008
Mar 22 2008
The Assault on Reason by Al GoreI hadn’t even been aware that Al Gore had written a book; we all know him, of course, as the human…
Mar 21 2008
A recent Linux filesystem benchmark, using modern filesystems, takes a look at some hard numbers. Looks like JFS usually comes in on top.
Mar 21 2008
The “Netbeans = Win” edition.
Mar 20 2008
God Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensContinuing a long and somewhat tawdry literary affair with the much-loved and oft-maligned Christopher Hitchens, I am reading his…
Mar 19 2008
Continuing the tradition of my previous post about Safari, I thought I would revisit Firefox’s performance on the SunSpider benchmark.
Clearly, Firefox has also made drastic strides in its Javascript engine, which is an entirely new piece donated by Adobe (and…
Mar 18 2008
Safari 3.1 has been released, bringing with it all the latest and great Webkit code. Even though the UI still sucks (at least on Windows; ever hear of native GUIs, Apple?)
I decided to benchmark the Javascript performance of the new Safari…
