Have you see what Chris is getting at his new job? Holy shit - I was lucky to even get a machine at my current contract!
- Pentium 4 3GHz with 1GB RAM, 120GB disk, etc, and a 20" flat panel display
- New G4 Tower (maybe dual proc? not sure yet), 1GB RAM, 20" flat panel display
- 15" Ti Powerbook
Sounds like either 1) a great company to work for, or 2) a company that won't be around very long. But it sounds like a good company...
The new job will be way more stable (think big company, but not evil company ;) pay a lot more, have stock that's actually worth something, and rockin' benefits.
Man am I jealous!
The coolest part about Mozilla moving to the Phoenix codebase is that Matt Croydon got quoted. I've been using Phoenix ever since it came out over Phoenix. If you've been using Mozilla over Phoenix, you're losing precious seconds, possibly minutes throughout the day. It's soooo much faster. I used to be die hard IE user - but Phoenix blows it out of the water. I don't know that it's faster, but if not, it's only milliseconds. And once you're addicted to tabbed browsing, it's tough to go back. The best part about the move is that (hopefully) Phoenix will get better. It's already got way more themes, which allows you to make it look as cool as you want.
I figured riding to work yesterday would get me in better shape, but rather, it has crippled me. After my hour n' 45 minute ride to work, I started to feel sick in the afternoon. Sick like a sore throat and headache. Around 5 o'clock (time to go home), I still felt like crap, but thought some more exercise would do me good. It took me an hour and 35 minutes to get home, and I was wiped out when I got here - in bed at 8:30. I didn't feel too bad last night, just tired. This morning I woke up to tonsils the size of golf balls (yep, I still have my tonsils), a headache and that "I-have-a-cold, man-I'm-tired" feeling. So I e-mailed in sick today, and slept in until 11. I've discovered that my lack of internet connection might be my router, as my LAN does not work anymore. It did work when this first happened, but now it doesn't. I guess I'll drag myself down to Circuit City and try to get a replacement before the repair guys show up and charge me $75/hour.
One thing I've learned using dial-up this week. It isn't that bad. In fact, this site seems to perform just as well on dial-up as it does on broadband. Aaaah, the beauty of server-side code. As for the fact that FreeRoller has been up since Monday, I think it's due to the newest version of Tomcat more than anything.
Update: Well, my ISP sent someone out today to fix my internet connection. It was wierd, my router (a Linksys) would restart itself every few seconds while it was plugged into their wireless receiver. The solution turned out to be replacing the ethernet cable between their router and mine. However, my internet access has been pretty spotty ever since, and I even upgraded the firmware on my router. The guy mentioned that Linksys where probably the poorest quality routers, but awful easy to configure. So I think I'm still going to head down to Circuit City and buy a new one. In order to post this, I ended up using dial-up.
