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March 10th, 2010
The BBC Click program about technology recently reported on the fact that Windows now has to include a choice of browsers in new bundled operating systems to avoid an unfair advantage for Explorer and had comments from various companies providing browsers about why theirs is the browser of choice.
If you watch the second half though you will see what they say are videos by viewers indicative of the repsonses they received. Get the feeling the producers of Click don’t use/like Explorer? Though they have the Microsoft guy on first in the execs portion – check out the viewer representing Explorer. roflol
Developers doing extra coding to make something work in Explorer 6 – Consider the Naked Man!
Question: Is the Mozilla/firefox woman attempting to recreate the firefox on her head?!
Click on the image to open the video.
November 3rd, 2009
Stuff White People Like
Someone left a newspaper on the train I took this morning (the Daily Mail) and I had a flip through it and came across this article…the content seemed familiar. The end of the article points out that Stuff White People Like: The Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions is now available in the UK.
This is a book based on the popular website.
Interesting difference is it talks about “middle class people” instead of White people. Class as opposed to race.
Possibly because over 90% of the UK population is White (according to the 2001 census) vs. 74% in the US (according to 2006 American Community Survey)…people just aren’t faced with race as an issue so much outside of London.
According to the 2001 census 45% of all ethnic minority people live in the London area, where they form nearly one-third of the population (29%).
The only reason I knew these stats exist is from studying random statistics for the Life in the UK test.
I passed by the way : )
November 1st, 2009
One friend is using her status message in google chat to update on her wordcount for NaNoWriMo.
new status message – 1417 7:18 PM
new status message – 1515 7:23 PM
new status message – 1540 7:41 PM
new status message – 1707 7:51 PM
new status message – 1772 8:37 PM
new status message – 1889 8:46 PM
new status message – 1924 9:06 PM
new status message – 2074 9:20 PM
My response: they look like years at this point you’re going from historical fiction to sci fi before my very eyes : )
Whatever your style, good luck to all my friends participating in NaNoWriMo. I will be cheering you on from the sidelines. Still uncertain as to whether I am participating in NaBloPoMo. I did last year but currently I am focused on repopulating my blog with old posts. Still November 1 is done in the nick of time.
November 2nd, 2008
I just deleted the Free Events NY group on Yahoo!. I started it on June 20, 2004. I had created a master list of free events going on in NYC organized by date for my benefit so I could look up a specific day and see what was on. I decided to share it with whoever would be interested via the Yahoo! group. Over the years thousands of events were posted.
I thoroughly enjoyed a lot of the events and was happy to share my efforts to organize them. I got some sweet thank you emails from a number of members. There were also the random emails from people who couldn’t figure out how to download the files, the messages I had to delete when people tried to post events that were not free – the title of the group was too mysterious and unclear and responding to RSVP emails when people didn’t notice that I was not the person who needed the response. 
I have moved to England and so I finally pulled the plug today. There were still 1230 members even though it had not been updated in about a year. The upcoming.org group still exists, though I don’t post events, but I gladly moderate through what people choose to share every so often.
Besides the resources below, general tips on finding what to do with yourself in NYC…If there’s a venue or community organization you like – find their website and subscribe to their calendar. On the websites of book stores you can find out about author events in your area. Check out New York City’s Parks Department website for info about events in your local park. You can do the same for your local library. Also, if there is a college or university near you they may have events that are open to the public. Many cultural organizations have facebook pages and twitter feeds as another way to communicate with you – do a few searches on your favorite social networking site.
There are loads of things going on. Realize you can’t do it all. Give yourself some time to recharge. Enjoy every minute.
Online resources for NYC:
- NewYorkology
The best guide to NYC for locals and tourists. It’s still in my RSS reader.
- NewYorkology Links page
Links to official sites for NYC’s (mostly free) summer concerts and film series, Pro sports teams, Alt-cinema theaters and venues, Tours and tour guides (divided by categories), Broadway shows, Hotels, Essential blogs, Auction houses, Museums, Iconic shopping sites.
- Brooklyn Vegan
Great music blog with a list of free events
here
- Oh My Rockness
Indie Rock show list
- Free NYC
Online calendar for free events
- Nonsense NYC
Weekly list for silly events
- upcoming or eventful
Searchable databases of events by location.
- HopStop
Directions to get where you want to go.
- Menu Pages
View menus of restaurants online. Search by food type or neighborhood.
- Serious Eats: New York
NY food blog with a great board you can ask questions on.
- ask.mefi
Posts tagged with NYC on ask.metafilter.com. Not all will be event/visit related but there will definitely be some interesting reading.
NY Media with good listings:
Reduced price ticket opportunities:
- TKTS Booths
They sell same day tickets for 25% or 50% off the regular price.
- TDF
Reduced price tickets you can buy in advance as a member (annual fee of about $30). You can join if you are a full-time student or teacher, a union member, a senior (62 or over), a civil service employee, a staff member of a not-for-profit organization, a performing arts professional, a member of the armed forces or clergy. A great deal, if you can join, because they get big shows for reasonable prices.
- Goldstar Events
Free for anyone to join, reduced price tickets. They will send you a weekly email with events. I have gotten some great tickets from them.
- High 5
Reduced price ticket opportunities for teenagers 13-18.
- Audience Extras
$85 annual fee plus $3.50 per ticket. You have to put money in your account with them which you draw from when you get tickets. Sometimes Broadway shows and lots of off and off-off-Broadway stuff. It is worth it if you will go a lot – quality of the performances is mixed.
- Play-By-Play
A few annual membership types (online membership – $99 plus an $8 processing fee. phone membership – $125 plus an $8 processing fee. Double membership – $198 plus a $16 processing fee with access to listings and reservations online and via telephone.) $3.50 surcharge per ticket. Like Audience extras you need to set up an account that ticket charges can be debited from.
- Theater Extras
Two different annual membership types ($99 – up to two tickets, and$175 up to 4 tickets per show.) $4 surcharge per ticket.
- Theatermania’s Gold Club
Two different annual membership types ($99 – up to two tickets, and$169 up to 4 tickets per show.) $4.50 surcharge per ticket.
August 3rd, 2008
There was an email going around for a while about Holocaust education in the UK – I responded to it here: The UK does Teach about the Holocaust and here: UK teaches Holocaust education redux. Now the same nonsense is making the rounds on Facebook. The UK teaches the Holocaust in its curriculum. It has not removed it from the national curriculum. Read the previous links for the full detailed story.