From The NY Times in Oct/2007 Republican Debate, McCain talking about Mitt Romney:

“I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training.

I wasn’t a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn’t a governor for a short period of time. For 20-some years, including leading the largest squadron in the United States Navy, I led. I didn’t manage for profit, I led for patriotism.”

Well gee, Senator, it is nice that you picked someone with those exact qualifications to fill your shoes should something disastrous happen to you.

Good for the masses!

I guess EA’s long anticipated Spore has such an awful DRM that it has earned a 1 star Amazon rating in over 1226 reviews.

Read the reviews

I’m really happy to see this. I’m happy to pay for my games. I hate supporting DRM in games.

Tonight marked a great milestone in our guild, the Bloodhoof Brigands. We’re a casual raiding guild and our Group One Raiding group downed Netherspite for the first time!

This was a big step for us as while the fight is not hard from a gear standpoint, it does require a lot of team coordination. Two tanks have to swap beam duty, four others have to share blue beam duty, all the while we damage Netherspite, avoid her breath of doom™ and keep everyone healed and alive.

Well done Group One!

Here is a kill photo. I’m the orc on the far right

ok guys, want to know how fast Chrome is?

Google’s Javascript benchmarks

Higher numbers are better:

So Chrome in Windows running on top of OS X is ten times faster.

Nice.

Google announced a new open-source browser, Chrome

The introduction is done as a comic - Well worth anyone’s read, and understandable too.

First off, I just switched to Firefox to try it out, and I am a Safari fan as well. The first “ah-ha!” with Chrome is that it is multi-processed. This means for each document, there is a separate OS process. A process is akin to an Application, but you (probably) won’t see a new dock icon for each document, aka Windows.

What this means is that when a web page locks up or slows down, the rest of your pages won’t. Even better, should one of the web pages cause the “browser” to crash, you won’t lose every page, only the offending one!

I know people at PMUG have heard me complain about this for years.

I hear Chrome is Windows only at the moment, but also that it is a based on WebKit (Safari’s engine). Interesting

I’m still reading the comic - you should too.