Finally. After a long spell of high pressure, no new snow and warm temperatures. Finally the storm clouds are gathering and the skiers are looking up to the summits with baited breath waiting for the new snow.
So says the news today. No shit. It works just fine for the particular purpose it’s designed for - it’s just that it heavily over prescribed to people who don’t need it. If you don’t need it it, it’ll do nothing. That’s the beauty of it. Unlike the old skool tricyclic antidepressants which had terrible side effects.
Don’t listen to the hype - fluoxetine and all the SRI anti depressants out there that are based on it are great drugs. Life enhancing, useful and quite frankly one of the best chemical compounds humans have developed since CnH2n+1OH. Just treat them both with respect, don’t get addicted and enjoy their life-enhancing benefits.
Bored of Firefox running really slowly? I am. The same flash application on a PC on IE7, Firefox and even in Apple’s Safari browser runs twice as quickly.
It’s probably because I’m a flash developer, building and testing heavy flash applications, but Firefox 2’s slowness has been bothering me for a while. But even if you’re not a geek you might get frustrated looking at videos on Youtube in Firefox, or waiting for new tabs to open and sort themselves out. If so, I have something that’ll make your day.
Why is it slow? Because the official releases of Firefox for OSX are not yet optimised for the Intel based systems. They will be soon no doubt, but for the moment there is another solution…. A very nice ubergeek called Neil Bruce Lee, who obviously knows what he’s doing, has created an unofficial release of Firefox called BonEcho which IS optimised for Intel machines and can be downloaded from here.
It’s brilliant - it’s just the same as your other Firefox (with the exception of the icons etc because although Firefox is open source, the official branding can’t be used on un-official releases) - you’ll still have your favourites/plug-ins/whatever else you use, it’s just that your Internet browser will be twice as quick! Brilliant!
It almost feels like summer here in the French Alps today. I’m sure it’ll start snowing again soon, and hopefully the blisters on my heels an muscle-ache I have from ski touring recently will have healed by the time it does. In the meantime I’ll enjoy a bit of sunshine out in the office garden.
