SteveX Compiled

It’s never too early for Fruit Cake! (There’s a surprising variety and quantity of Fruit Cake at my local grocery store today).

I have a theory on the economic bailout plan that’s being proposed in the states. Disclaimer: I know as much about economics as I do about fixing cars, and I’m all proud that just last week I changed the headlight bulb by myself. Here’s a quote from Dave Winer with some back story: Now we […]

And you should be a PC too, because lots of other people are. I think that’s what they’re saying… But if everyone else jumped off a bridge, I thought I wasn’t supposed to jump off a bridge too. I think my Mom told me that.

With all the various battery recalls both for Apple and non-Apple laptops, it sucks to have a defective battery that’s not being recalled. Check this out: coconutBattery is a great little utility that pulls together some battery numbers in a nice UI. In this case it’s telling me that my battery’s maximum charge is 21% […]

Finally, an agreement I can get behind. I wonder if this is a binding contract.

For all the work that people do to try to prevent spam from showing up on websites, there’s a class of sites that spammers are using to propagate spam basically unchecked. Abandoned Websites. Here’s how it typically goes: Bob gets an idea for a site. In a burst of optimism, Bob registers a domain name, […]

Microsoft has come out with their first ad response to the Get a Mac ad campaign by Apple. I don’t get it. It’s fun and whimsical, but it seems like one of those videos you show at the start of a company meeting, not something you use with mass media to try to improve your […]

I like the fact that Google Chrome runs each tab in a separate process. What happens when one of those processes dies? Fire up Task Manager, pick a chrome.exe and try it out:

Google Chrome is available now, here. If you haven’t heard of it – Chrome is Google’s new browser project. It’s based on WebKit, giving it some similarity to Apple’s Windows version of Safari. I don’t really understand why Apple wanted Safari for Windows, and I don’t really understand where Google is going with Chrome. But […]

This is some good soup.