Category Archives: Technology

Chrome Rocks

Just trying out Google’s new browser, Chrome. The admin back end for WordPress (that is, the page I’m working on as I type this) is blazingly fast running on Chrome. Faster than Firefox, IE or Safari — as in: No Contest.
Google set out with a specific goal: to create a browser that is [...]

Well that was a…

I’m amused by how many really good questions are prefaced with some variation of the words “This is a stupid question, but…”
I think my all-time favorite was when a non-techie asked me: “This is a stupid question, but what is a byte, anyway?”
(Short answer: a bit is a one or a zero represented in digital [...]

Resetting the foundations

It seems that Apple’s OS X is getting a new filesystem with its upcoming release of version 10.5. They’re reportedly moving to Sun’s ZFS.
From that link:
ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management. We’ve blown away 20 years of obsolete assumptions, [and] eliminated [...]

The Hidden Apple Preview?

Steve Jobs has a secret, and he waved it right in front of you for an hour or so. Did you notice?