The Design and Implementation of laffer1

For some reason, I decided to take a snap of 4 browsers running on Vista.  Opera is not installed, but I've got Safari beta 3, IE 7, Firefox 2.0.0.4 and Netscape 9 beta on there.

Apple announced Safari will be headed to the Windows XP and Vista Operating Systems. Now PC users can see what websites look like on the Mac. Beta 3 is available on their website. Contrary to Apple's claims, it seems slower than Firefox or IE on my Vista system. I've also noticed random connection failures which I believe to be a combination of an Apache bug and Safari itself. (apache httpd + tomcat 5.1.15 using mod_proxy_ajp)

I looked up Wireless Washtenaw, the project to bring free wifi to residents of the county.  The speeds have been dropped to 64Kbps and rates increased.  Its more expensive than cable or dsl.

Here is a list of ISPs that do traffic shaping or in some way limit P2P traffic.  Comcast is on the list.  I don't think I have an issue with my business connection, but some people might find this information useful.  I'm interested in hosting torrent files for MBSD isos. 

Yahoo put up a fluff piece to stop the constant rise of AAPL's stock price.  While I've been saying the iPhone is overhyped, this will effect monday's price. 

Watching Transamerica. Its a very weird movie.

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I just finished the movie. It's actually a very good movie.

So I've had trouble with the G4 PowerMac.  I tracked it down to a bad IDE cable on the DVD-ROM drives.  Every time there was disk access, the system would crash.  I went to 3 stores today looking for a flat IDE ribbon cable.  No one had any.  BestBuy was even out of the round ones which won't work in this case.  The cable has to feed under and around several metal pieces. 

I got my 15 entries and 7 edits done today.  I don't have to worry about that for the rest of the semester beyond the paper.

I need to do website stuff yet. 

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/09/199259

A service called CertifiedEmail is being used by several large ISPs including Yahoo, AOL, and Comcast.  (Yahoo partners with broadband providers)  This service charges 1/4 a cent per e-mail sent.  E-mails are guaranteed whitelisted.  The catch is that ISPs won't guarantee delivery of email any longer unless you pay up. 

This is a terrible day for the Internet.  My email server has been locked out of hotmail for a year and now i won't be able to email others anymore.  I can't even pay for this service as I don't have a business license. 

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/06/08/winkler.sentence.ap/index.html

What this bitch is thinking:
I had to watch the porno, wear a wig and have sex with my husband!  Oh the humanity!  I shot him in the back and now i walk after less than a year!  Think of the children! 

http://thebrowser.blogs.fortune.com/2007/06/08/can-president-bush-bail-out-qualcomm/

Qualcomm has asked the President to let them circumvent the patent system.  They have used the system against every other cell phone maker in the past and in some cases gained a lot of money.  Now that the tables have turned, they want help.  I'm not a huge fan of broadcom, but after my experience with a Qualcomm phone, anything goes. 

http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/08/markets/oil.reut/index.htm?postversion=2007060815

Maybe we'll see a slight price drop for July or at least not the $4+ they were predicting.

http://blogs.business2.com/utilitybelt/2007/06/apple_tv_costs_.html

Short version:
512MB ram
Intel Pentium M 1Ghz (custom)
Broadcom wireless
Realtec audio and NIC
Fujitsu 40 GB 4200 RPM drive (reminds me of my iBook's original)
36 watt power supply

UBS raised its price target on APPLE INC. (AAPL) to $160 from $133, and hiked its 2007 and 2008 forecasts for iPhone shipments. "We continue to believe new products should help stimulate revenue acceleration through FY08 with the iPhone driving another leg of the 'multiplier effect'," UBS analyst Ben Reitzes wrote in a note to investors. For fiscal 2007 the brokerage raised its estimate on iPhone shipments to 950,000 units from 850,000 units. For fiscal 2008 it expects iPhone unit shipments of 8.1 million, up from its previous view of 7.4 million. UBS reiterated its "buy" rating on the stock. (Reuters 09:59 AM ET 06/07/2007)

I don't believe its possible for Apple to ship that many iPhones. My fear is the mass sell off after the iPhone ships at the end of the month. It may wait until initial weekly sales figures for the iPhone are leaked by Cingular, but it will happen.

I managed to create a full rough draft by about 1:30 AM for my assignment.  I uploaded one just before Midnight to beat the initial timer.  No one has proof read the first one yet so that should work on.  One part of the assignment I"m not sure if i should keep in is a reference to Fruit Fucker.  http://www.penny-arcade.com/2002/02/11

I'm not sure if that will be kosher because of the characters name.  F F is one of my favorite comic characters. 

At least I got the assignment turned in.  I'm still thinking about the website assignment.  I need to get on that soon (for both classes).  I thought about doing a MBSD installation guide site, but I'm not sure if that would fit into the assignment.  It would be time consuming to make, but its not something I'm accustomed to making which means its a challenge.  The other idea I'm still toying with is making a new Jewel site.  The existing one has tons of broken links and inconsistent styles.  I don't mind the splash, but the rest has to go.  I've thought about going retro with it.  My two favorite designs were from 1999 and 2000.  One was blue and black and the other was white, gray and light blue.  Some combination of those might be interesting. 

Today has not gone as planned. I have a paper due for peer review today and i have to miraculously transform the apartment into a well organized, clean environment. Tomorrow we have someone coming in to professionally steam clean. Problem is we have boxes of crap everywhere along with computers. It makes things very difficult. The closets are full, etc.

I woke up at 3PM. That sort of limited my day. Now you're probably thinking I stayed up very late last night. I went to bed at ~1am. I suspect I was trying to catch up for the day I didn't sleep at all. (monday night)

Today's group of id10ts come from EMU. According to them, Safari can't render XHTML. That's amazing since I use it on all my websites. Interestingly, they do support IE 4+ which does not handle the application/xml+xhtml mime type. So its a fake requirement designed to piss off Mac users or they are lazy and don't want to support Safari.

Caryn and I have had mixed feelings about our apartment.  In many ways its superior to anything we had in Kalamazoo.  It has a washer and dryer, fireplace, built in microwave, and dishwasher.  There's even a storage room/furnace room that we have access to.  However, a good share of these things have severe problems.  Our storage room has a serious mold problem due to a leaking air conditioner upstairs.  The complex painted it once and fixed some falling ceiling but never really solved the problem.  The microwave turns off, requiring the power cord to be pulled to reset it.  We just gave on this one and hooked up our own microwave.  (its twice as powerful anyway)  Finally, the worst offender is the washing machine.  It has destroyed the flooring in our laundry room as it moves randomly.  It rams the wall.  It rams the dryer.  It leaks.  It makes the worst sound ever.  Its a GE product.  Today, the apartment complex finally decided that they were sick of hearing us and will replace our washer.  I'm so happy.  We were always behind on laundry simply because it got worse on the second and third loads.  By the forth load in a row, it would be spitting out water and running around in a circle.

Many years ago, one of my favorite resources for learning about web technologies was developer.netscape.com.  They had thousands of articles on basics to enhanced DHTML tricks.  When AOL acquired Netscape, a good share of that information was removed.  The Mozilla project was given the documentation is in the process of migrating it to a new home. http://developer.mozilla.org/

Someone posted this link in response to a slashdot post I made.  The old version is available here. (temporary)

I also used to use a Microsoft resource that merged with MSDN some time ago. 

I downloaded a trial version of Dreamweaver CS3.  I've been using various versions of Dreamweaver since around 2.0.  I'm impressed with Adobe's rendition.  I was a bit worried about the acquisition, but Dreamweaver CS3 is very fast, and offers new AJAX components.  If you are currently using Dreamweaver 8, it may still be worth it to get the speed increase and AJAX stuff.  Its a big improvement over MX 2004.