Dave Kellam

This screenshot has many purposes. Or at least a few anyway. First one, take a look at the personal ad on both The Onion and Modern Humourist, I smell a conspiracy. The shot also shows off a few of tweaks I’ve made to OS X and also the incredibly cold weather (-16C in the afternoon) we’ve been having. And today is a nice day. Blah, snow is alright, the cold is shit.

Various things for changing the look of your mac:
ThemeChanger – allows theme switching
Max Themes – a number of cool looking themes
Swizcore Studios – more themes
ResExcellence – tons of mod info
Unsanity – great interface tweaks
AquaFix – restore original aqua theme

Here’s a thread describing some hacks for Safari.

They’re big on computational complexity in computer science, go figure. An nice way to describe computational complex it with asymptotic notation, basically a rough estimation of how long something takes to run. I was working on my algorithms assignment and came across some asymptotic notations that I hadn’t seen before. To tell you the truth I didn’t even know they were called asymptotic notations; they started us off with big o notation, and then handed us big omega and big theta notation. Now they give me this squirrely w notation (which I discovered is actually called little omega notation) and little o notation, which are very similar to their bigger brothers but different enough to warrant a name change. Anyway, I hadn’t bought the textbook yet but needed to learn what these new notations were but the internet saved me again.

Now the question is: what did I do for a week? And the answer is: not all that much. I did some drinking, I did some school work.

This looks cool.

I was trying to figure out how to get a rough estimate of a factorial number without a calculator and came across an example of numerology at its best. The conclusions are great — basically he proved the existence of God.

I’ve been playing around with Safari a bit, and agree with a lot of the comments that people have made. The one big thing people are complaining about is the lack of tabbed browsing. I’m pretty sure this will get implemented, how could they overlook one of the key reasons that so many people have switched to Chimera? I think it’s because of they want people to try using the SnapBack feature as opposed to tabs. It works much the same way I tend to use tabs, i.e. opening up a bunch of links from a weblog in tabs so that I can still go back and finish reading the site. That’s how the SnapBack works, you can go off down some trail, leave a marker and be instantly teleported back when you don’t feel like being there anymore. I think it’s a good method for browsing weblogs and such, but something people wouldn’t have bothered trying if the tabs were available. That said, Apple will still put tabs into the browser because they’re very useful (especially the bookmarking groups of tabs).

I can’t say a whole lot about the rendering engine they decided to use, based on the Konquerer engine rather than Gecko. They went for lean and mean, but might have pissed off the people whose website code no longer works properly. I know for sure that Java things seems to be working better for me (I was never able to do this crossword puzzle in Chimera).

Next up, I don’t think the browser has 128-bit encryption. Or if it does, it’s just not rendering either of the pages that I use encryption on properly. Namely my banking website and my school’s course/marks website.

Last thing I want to comment on is the bookmark managing. I think the new system is great, it’s what I’ve been looking for. It’s the way I’ve been trying to use bookmarks (with IE on windows and Chimera on mac) for a long time. I use a lot of bookmarks, it’s the crux of my browsing but Chimera has piss-poor bookmark management. I ended up using Bookit, so i didn’t have to deal with Chimera’s lackluster sidebar.

Maybe this bike will be around by the time I have my midlife crisis.

Gary Carter was elected into the baseball hall of fame today. He was my favourite baseball player when I was a kid, although I’m not really sure why. I vaguely remember watching the 1986 World Series that the Mets won, that might have been it; I also might have had a lot of Gary Carter baseball cards to begin with and the name got stuck in my head.

An online copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I remember a computer professor talking about the book in first year, I should probably read it.