No more Silvertips

Well last night the Silvertips were swept out of the playoffs. Not much of a surprise, a really streaky team. A really uneventful week, mostly just going to and from work, still in training. I will be going to some other team Hockey games coming up in the next week. I also have my playoff game on Sunday against the Puck'n Monkeys. Should be a good game.

IE 8 vs Firefox 3, battle of the BETA's...

So I am testing out the newest version of Internet Explorer and Firefox. I was using IE up until Firefox 1.0 came out. Firefox had several 'big' features. Notably tabbed browsing and extensions. Microsoft had been stagnant with IE since the release of Windows XP and really had not added anything new to it for years. Microsoft later put of IE 7 which added tabs and all sorts of security fixes, and a general new look, after firefox caused a bit of a stir (See: competition causes innovation). IE 8 is supposed to be their attempt to make it webstandards compliant, IE has been know to be lacking there. That sounds good sure, but I don't code enough HTML to have it be a deal breaker. Nor do I care about whiney webmasters.

One thing I hate about Firefox is its extreme memory usage, you browse for an hour and it eats everything up and becomes unstable. It also seems to need to update every two weeks, sometimes axing my bookmarks. This firefox beta seems to have fixed most of that issue, but a couple of extensions I use are currently unstable ( IE Tab and STOP Hammer time , don't ask). On the flipside, this IE 8 beta is also really slow and most sites do not render properly which should be fixed in time, but for the time being its a pain in the ass. Also IE does not have an Adblock Plus equivalent to it, which is one of things you miss after you have it.

At this point its a toss up to who I will stick with in the future, right now I am annoyed. Whats a nerd to do?

Is this still on?

Wow long time no post. Is it a bad thing I forgot this existed? Well alot has happened since last time I posted, so a quick recap. I got a contract as a CritSit Admin, lost the job in the usual contractor fashion, had a couple month of Vacation/Referee time, and got hired full time back at the same company, different but similar gig and got a decent raise. Who says contractors make more than FTE's?

On the more personal side, been playing Hockey when I can, and refereeing. Also been trying to hang out with the friends. Took a trip to Canada last weekend, have pictures, but certain people would not like them on the internet. Pity. Here's a rather embarassing one of Sean...

That was all him, we didn't force him.

Still fun, now I need to hit the sack, I have orientation tomorrow. Should be fun, will be stopping at the Employee store to get some goodies.