Speed up Firefox

I found this neat article on "hack a day" that will speed up Firefox on broadband connections.

I haven't been able to notice a tremendous difference, but here's the text from the tip with some slight modifications by me:

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows by double clicking on the entry:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

Welcome to the world: Abigail Kalea Rymer

I want to welcome my daughter Abigail Kalea Rymer into the world. She was born Dec 15th, 2004 at 1:31am EST. She weighed 6lbs 8.4oz and measured 19.5 inches long.

Just as I figured...

Just as I figured. After the music industry lobbied so hard for the DMCA, made examples of poor teenagers who just wanted to listen to their favorite artists and sued them for thousands, guess what?!

Monday (12/6/2004) a survey of recording artists revealed that the internet has padded their pockets. 43% of the artists said that peer-to-peer networks actually helped promote their work!

Creativity should be free to express itself... viva la restistance!

Robojo Speaks

My friend Robert Jones just started a new blog. His rants are entertaining to say the least!

URL: Robojo Speaks

Neat remote hack

I just discovered a very neat hack I have to tell you about. With the help of a Griffin Total Remote you can record IR remote control signals as sound (wav file for example). Then plug the total remote into any audio playback gadget (mp3 player, iPod, PocketPC, etc) and control devices 100ft away! That's awesome!

I saw a video of someone on engadget.com using the device to record a TV-B-Gone device's signals and then save it into his iPod. Suddenly his iPod could turn off any TV in 100ft.

New pictures on shutterfly

We have some new albums available now on shutterfly:

Tate Lewis' birth 11.14.2004
Pumpkin Carving 10.24.2004
Baby Shower 10.02.2004

Friends New Additions

Our friends Scott & Melanie Lewis had their first child today. His name is Tate Lewis and you can see pictures of him on the Lewis's second new addition (their website):

http://www.nclewis.com/

Here is a picture I took from my phone cam:


Our baby is not far behind. Abigail Rymer is due Dec 21, 2004.

DHTML book coming soon

My friend Jason Cranford Teague's new book is being released very soon. It's going to the printers next week. Just so you know why I'm promoting it, it's because I wrote chapter 10 on databases. I'm excited to announce that this is my first time being published!

I know Jason has worked very hard on this book, and I can say that writing technical books is no easy task. I hope anyone who works in the web would consider this book for your bookshelf.

Thanks to Jason for giving me this opportunity.

Man kills himself over election results

I was horrified to read about a 25 year old man from the state of Georgia that killed himself over the weekend. He went up to the 9/11 ground zero site and took his own life because of the recent Bush re-election.

Article on CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/07/ground.zero.suicide.ap/index.html

I have been very depressed about the recent elections myself, and I've been trying to learn how to deal with another 4 years under this crazy president. My only inspiration is that as Americans, we've lived under much worse times. My nephew just recently discovered in researching the family history that my ancestors were brought here in bondage as indentured servants. My point here is that no matter what setbacks we may face, whether they are enslavement, a bad economic policy, or even a bad war, we as Americans must find the strength to more forward and live a life that is something worthy of pride. So today and everyday going forward, we should stand tall, and be proud of who we are, and create a world for our children that is better than our own.

Intelligent people voted for Kerry?

I've read a lot of interesting things about this election on the web in the last few days, but this has got to be the best link sent to me yet:

http://attenuation.net/files/iq.htm

It seems that the states with the highest average IQs all voted for Kerry. Once the average state IQ falls below 99 they become definite Bush supporters. So really it's to the republican party's advantage to keep people stupid.

I found this image on Bushflash.com as well... I love it: