Remember my rant (post-memory upgrade on the Mac Pro) about Firefox 2.0 bombing around 900 MB-ish RAM utilization level? Here’s a quick update: It looks like Firefox 2.0.0.14 is still hanging on, without crashing. Thus far, it’s pushed to the 1.18 GB RAM utilization level, and there’s still 1.33 GB of free system memory not [...]
Friday, June 27, 2008
For folks who need that “extra ooomph” in explanations of potentially serious health risks (or because reading text may be somewhat… challenging), the FDA has prepared a one-page PDF that outlines the current state of affairs associated with their public activities surrounding the tomato-related Salmonellosis. While the events described in the PDF have been going [...]
The Setup A couple of Sundays ago, I was doing research for my upcoming trip to Hawaii, and– … Okay, you caught me! I was actually just lolling around on the sofa, channel-surfing, when I came across the Travel Channel, which was showcasing Hawaii, including its beaches, the “do’s and don’t’s” of traveling in Hawaii, [...]
The Setup This is becoming an all-too-frequent occurrence these days: I was minding my own business, relaxing at the Alexandria Starbucks (yes, it’s somehow managed to turn into the Javamancy Annex over the past several weeks), when a person would sidle up next to me, look lustfully at the PowerBook (PB), then say something like, [...]
