Decaffeinated, Chris Clark’s defunct weblog

Unbridled fanboyism

I love Camino. More appropriately, I love the Mozilla Project as a whole; open–source projects seem to me to be some kind of godly concoction of goodness.

Those of us on the trunk (ie– those of us married to nightly builds) have just been treated to a new mechanism for whitelist management. The fact that Camino has a whitelist for popup–blocking is good enough, (compare to Safari at your leisure) but this takes it one more step in the right direction. Throw in the other additions from the last week or so (the promising text find, not to mention a fix for that troublesome history bug) and it would seem that Camino has been getting a lot work lately.

The popup indicator (pictured) is of particular value. Before the existence of a whitelist, I would sometimes be forced to disable the popup blocker just to view a site (you know the ones… the ones the rely heavily on new windows spawned via javascript). Occasionally, I’d forget to re–enable the blocker before opening a new tab set and being treated to a barrage to popup ads. Most often I’d wonder where the fuck they all came from, and now I know.

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Geek out

Tonight, come midnight, I shall travel to the farthest reaches of my own suburb to see the new Matrix movie. I honestly don’t know what to expect.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fucking nerd, but hardly a Matrix geek. I liked the first movie (replace “liked” with “was blown away by the effects and really like slow–mo explosions” as you please) but really felt like the plot was lacking. Maybe I just don’t read the bible enough, but the whole “chosen one” thing got a little overdone around the same time as the Golden Child came out.

I don’t expect to be disappointed tonight — I expect to see some wicked–ass fighting and some spectacular effects — but I doubt that Keanu Reeves has learned to act anytime recently, and I’m confident that whatever “biblical undertones” were present in the first movie are likely destroyed by these next two… making it even less credible.

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Mental note

In the absence of pasta sauce or even the basic elements of pasta sauce, barbecue sauce is a surprisingly good substitute.

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