Chipping the web – P(18)

Brad Bird and others have repeatedly used A113 for license plates and other letter/number combinations in their movies, as an inside joke.

Windows Vista really guzzles electricity — when I’m remote and using the EV-DO card, my HP notebook drains its 8-cell battery in about an hour. But Chris Pirillo pointed me to Vista Battery Saver, a little utility that can automatically turn off Aero and the sidebar when you’re on battery — supposedly saving lots of power. I haven’t had a chance to benchmark the battery life yet — going on EV-DO here is painfully slow — but I’ll update this when I do.

As Pope said: “What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.” That’s why they call them programming languages.

Speaking of language, check out Teh Holiez Bibul. I wonder if we’ve finally found a translation that can make Numbers chapter 7 interesting (thanks, Assaf). You know, maybe this LOLstuff is getting just a little out of hand.

The Tao of Frameworks.

Mohan bemoans domain realtors who drive up prices for domain names. Not sure how I feel about that one. My anarcho-capitalist side says that the fact they can get more for the domain names means that the standard prices are artifically low — the same principle as scalping tickets. On the other hand, if they’re really using insider information, then perhaps something should be done about it.

Just when I thought I’d escaped from the office…