the ryan king

RatcliffeBlog—Mitch’s Open Notebook: iPods get people laid and can improve their memories, too!

Nice.

Conquering fear in our church

poker chips

Originally uploaded by ryansking.

Lookee what I got for christmas! I know its not christmas yet, but we had a get-together with everyone on my dad’s side of the family last night.

The set has 500 chips and weights about 18 pounds. I’m planning on getting a pair of handcuffs so I can handcuff it to my wrist. I’ve always wanted to have a briefcase handcuffed to me.

Tim Bray is asking why he shouldn’t switch to using Firefox instead of Safari. There certainly are a number of compelling reasons to switch, but I have a few personal reasons not to switch:

• Scroll-wheel-click doesn’t open a new tab. I know I can still right-click and open a link in a new tab, but you know what? I really like using scroll-wheel-click for this, so I probably won’t use Firefox full-time until it does this.
• The delete key doesn’t go back in the browser’s history. Another thing I’m used to from Safari (and IE and Netscape/Mozilla, I think)
• In Safari, the bookmarks on the bookmarks bar can be opened with Cmd-1…Cmd-0. I’ve put several bookmarklets up there and can access them with command keys. This is super cool and Firefox doesn’t support this.

Uh…that’s really all I’ve got. It really is a nice app, in many ways superior to Safari, I just don’t like to change the way I work, I’d rather change the application to fit the way I want to work.

Note to all software developers out there: user interface issues will keep people from using your produce, especially if there’s a good enough alternative.

This is damn cool. Yahoo maps now have the ability to overlay realtime traffic information. Try it.