Anna K

I was looking for something completely different, and clicked on this only because I saw Anna Kendrickโ€™s name. (I really like her because sheโ€™s extremely smart and an underrated actress. And oh yeah, that infectious mirthful smile of hers doesnโ€™t hurt.)

The songโ€™s not great โ€“ though itโ€™s growing on me — but the video is excellent. Itโ€™s fun, tells a story and has lots of Anna K. No way to go wrong there.

Go here for an HD version since idiotic YouTube doesnโ€™t allow embedding it.

Chromed out

Iโ€™ve been using the browser Chrome at work a little, just to see if my bad impression of it was correct.

And itโ€™s terrible.

Donโ€™t get me wrong, itโ€™s fast if you do very little โ€“ which I guess is the use case for most people โ€“ but if you try to do anything intensive with it, it totally chokes.

In other words, itโ€™s very much made for the โ€œaverage userโ€ who maybe has 2-3 tabs open and doesnโ€™t do much in the way of real work or power use.

Sometimes in Firefox I have 2-5 windows open with 30-40 tabs in each one. And yes, I am using all of them and do need them all open and know whatโ€™s in each window and tab.

Just because you canโ€™t do something doesnโ€™t mean that I canโ€™t. Donโ€™t assume that my use case is yours.

And if you try opening 2-3 Chrome windows with 20-30 tabs in each one, that piece of shit is like using Windows 95 on a 386sx with 4MB of RAM way back when. It crawls so slowly it might be going backwards in time.

So, yes, Chrome is great browser if you need to do very little. Too bad Firefox is going the same direction.