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Nels Wadycki

Month: May 2008

  • Firefox 3 RC1

    Nels W

    I really, really, really want to run Firefox 3. I’ve tested it out in the Beta versions and it has much better memory management, which, for me, is about the only thing I think really needs improvement in Firefox.

    The problem is that Firefox 3 doesn’t accept (still) self-signed certificates. This is generally a good thing for Grandmas and Grandpas out there who don’t know about security. I don’t want them signing their life away because they click a link that doesn’t really go to their bank, or PayPal, or something else like that. But (!) I do need to be able to accept such “shady” certificates in order to use Firefox as my general web development testing browser. This is only frustrating, of course, because I can certainly keep Firefox 2 on my computer until the end of time, if I have to.

    Or can I…?

    When I uninstalled Firefox 3 RC1, unlike with the Beta versions, it uninstalled Firefox completely. Apparently in my haste to try it out, I didn’t realize that 3RC1 installed right on top of Firefox 2. It only took me about as long as it took to write this post to fix the problem (by re-downloading and re-installing Firefox 2), but it was annoying enough to drive me to my blog to write about it.

    And since I hate it when the people with the complaints are the most vocal, let me say, with the exception of the certificate issue, I think Firefox 3 is great. If you don’t have the same problem as me, then I don’t think there’s any reason why you would not want to upgrade right now. Well, other than it’s still only a Release Candidate, so it’s possible that there are still some minor bugs to work out.

  • What do you want from Twitter?

    Nels W

    Charles Nutter talks about reducing the number of people he’s following on Twitter. Here’s a quote from the post:

    To me, the value of Twitter is both in keeping track of what people I respect are working on or find interesting and as a sort of micro-feed, a little forced 2-second thought break to help me step back from hard problems. Whether you buttered your toast on the bottom or found an unrecognizable lump of once-food in the refrigerator is worthless to me…so if that’s the tweets you’re inflicting on the world, why should I begin or continue to follow you?

    That’s certainly one point of view. And one to which I am diametrically opposed. I mean, sure, if my friends want to tell me about what they are working on or find interesting, that’s all well and good. But really, I enjoy knowing if my friends butter the top or bottom of their toast, or if they found a lump of unrecognizable once-food in the refrigerator. That’s why I want to use Twitter, and that’s the entire reason I use Twitter. In fact, I’m sure if more of my friends realized how easy it was to use, and that they didn’t have to compose entire blog entries to let people know what’s up, I’d be even more happy. I subscribe to the Facebook status update for my friends, and that’s more of the same, but it helps me keep tabs on what’s going on with my peeps.

    If every post from my Twitter friends were “writing a new Cocoa script”, or “Got my Ruby execution time down by 50%”, I’d be bored out of my mind. I want to know where my friends are, what they’re doing, what they’re eating, all of that. Of course, I don’t want to know that about just any random person who decides to follow me on Twitter. But if it’s someone I know, bring on the reviews of the new NIN album, the destruction of bath mats, the TV marathons, the smells on the train, and tha ma’fxckin’ book videos (NSFW).

    Of course, the beauty of the Twitter, is that both Charles Nutter and Nels Wadycki can get what they want from the same application.

  • NelsWadycki.com

    Nels W

    I swung a deal with my hosting provider for GiveMeTheRock.com and got to add some extra domains and databases to my plan… so now I have NelsWadycki.com! Quick get to it before I throw Google Ads all over the place!

  • I missed RSS Awareness Day

    Nels W

    According to ReadWriteWeb, yesterday was RSS Awareness Day. I totally missed it, but it’s funny because yesterday Soup.io did something really weird with my Hulu RSS feed. At first, I thought it was a problem with the feed itself, but the feed itself in my Google Reader has only my most recently viewed items, whereas the Soup feed somehow fetched all the recently added items.