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I wish Chimera handled tabs more like Mozilla does. I want to be able to open a new tab in the background by CMD-clicking links. Having to navigate through a pop up menu is a pain, especially when the link in question ends up loading in the foreground. I want to be able to continue reading the original page while the new pages loads in the background thank you very much.

Of course I fully expect Chimera to be superior to Mozilla down the road. Native widgets rule. Quartz rendered text rules.

On the other hand Mozilla widgets continue to be painfully slow. When I type at regular speed in a textbox I can easily outpace text display and I’m working on a 466Mhz machine. Not good.

I used to be mainly an IE 5.1 user, but tabs have pretty much brought that relationship to an end. Multiple browsing windows annoy the heck out of me now. I still keep IE around, but hopefully within a few months here I’ll be able to stick with just one browser.

I haven’t had a lot to write lately. I need to work on that.

Apple: Introducing Xserve.

Xserve looks like a pretty nice MacOS rackmount server and the management software looks pretty nifty as well. Not that I anticipate getting to administer multiple Xserves any time soon. Still, a small rack with a couple of these babies would be a pretty cool way to go down the road.

Interesting article over at O’Reilly: Developing the Battle.net Emulator BNETD

This seems like a cool project, but unfortunately Blizzard has put everything on hold thanks to the lawsuit discussed in the interview.

My sister made it back in town for Mother’s Day after a long drive home from Tempe, AZ. Looking at all the stuff she unloaded from her car I’m amazed that she was able to fit a couple more drivers/passengers as well.

Cool. The Mariners did end up winning last night’s game after two extra innings.

In other Mariners news I guess Kaz had to return home to Japan to take care of some family stuff and Jeff Nelson has some bone chips in his right elbow that he needs to have removed. Hopefully both guys will be able to return to action without too much delay.

I actually have a couple bone chips floating around in my own right elbow and I think they’ve been there at least seven years now. I acquired both of them in college diving on the court after loose balls while playing in a couple different pick up basketball games. Most of the time I don’t even notice them.

Hmm… The M’s just came back from 3 down in the 9th to tie things up and go to the 10th. I may just have to turn on the radio and catch the end of the game.

I’ve been a fairly regular Robert Cringely reader for a couple years now because he usually has a lot of interesting things to say about computers and the technology industry. Sometimes his speculation seems a little far fetched or off the wall, but I generally enjoy it. A week ago I was surprised and saddened by his April 25 column when he revealed that his two month old son Chase had died from SIDS. I was really impressed by his grief inspired desire to devote his life to battling SIDS and intrigued by his call to the Internet community to assist him in this task. Based on his most recent column, it looks like a ton of people are getting on board and offering their assistance. The website isn’t up quite yet, but eventually the project willl be located at chasecringely.org. I’m definitely going to keep tabs on this project.

We got a couple airport cards for our portable iMac carts here at work so I’ve been playing around with the AirPort 2.0’s software basestation capabilities. It seems to work pretty well all things considered.

On the first iMac that I setup today I was fairly surprised to find an open WiFi network running somewhere nearby. I’m guessing a student across the street from our building has some kind of unsecured access point. I was able to get an ip address and connect to the Internet using their AP without any problems. Kind of funny/scary.

Right now I’m testing our building to see how well the signal travels. I put an iMac acting as software base station in our network closet and now I’m tooling around upstairs with the other iMac. The network connection is working surprisingly well. We’re actually planning to install two Lucent access points plus some pricey RAD wire antennas in our ceiling which are suppose to provide even better signal strength, but that’s probably a couple months off still.

I can’t wait until I have a computer that has WiFi built in (I can get a card for my PowerBook, but then I lose FireWire). Maybe if they introduce a G4 iBook at MacWorld New York….

UserCreations Spring sounds pretty interesting. Based on what I’ve read I’m not really sure how to describe it, but I’m looking forward to playing with it once it comes out in a few weeks here.