Good to see that the folks at Mozilla have made great strides to make Firefox a fantastic browser when it comes to memory management. It used to be that Firefox was a nasty memory pig.

Firefox 3 Memory Benchmarks and Comparison

I have been fascinated by HDR images I’ve seen over there years, and I’ve always wanted to try to create some myself. This one, I took with my handy-dandy Canon SD1000. I just used exposure compensation by putting the camera in manual mode and mapping the print button to the exposure controls. I took (5) images at -2, -1, 0, +1, and +2 EV and used HDR Soft’s Photomatix Pro 2.5.4 on the Mac (PC version exists as well).

One of the tutorials I’ve read is this one, which goes through the process and has some dazzling images to feast your eyes upon as well. Here is another tutorial.

Hands on: Flock 2 steps up the social browser game

I always respect the folks at ArsTechnica, so I figured I’d share this nice article on Flock 2. They mention that it’s still in Beta, and there are always issues with Bets, but, like the author of the article, I’m seriously considering using Flock 2 when it makes its official release. For now, I’ll stick with Firefox 3.

Firefox 3: Power User’s Guide to Firefox 3

It seems that lifehacker.com puts out some great information. I ran across this on my iGoogle.com page a few minutes ago. I’ve been using Firefox 3 for quite some time now (as a supplement to my normal Firefox 2, Safari, and Camino browsing habits). As the releases neared release, they kept getting more stable. Now that I’ve had it installed for a few hours, I have to say I’m pretty happy about it.

I’ve also installed Flock 2 Beta 1… a great browser based on Firefox 3 if you’re heavily into social websites and sharing your media (like photos with Flickr, for instance).

Just messing around with Flock 2.0 Beta 1. This browser really has grown up quite a bit since the first time I tried it about two years ago!

For the social website dude (person who uses Flickr, MySpace, FaceBook, Digg, Twitter, Pownce, etc), this is a great browser.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

MacRumors.com : Worldwide Developer Conference 2008 Keynote Live Coverage

Finally, a “real” iPhone just got announced. The iPhone 3G. From the sounds of this phone and its 2.0 OS, I’d have to consider getting a phone like this. It’s thinner, has a black plastic back (no more shiny metal), and is 2.8x faster than its earlier phone for data, with data speeds nearing WiFi speeds.

Not only was Ben awesome with his 5 fish outing, he also took it upon himself to flip his visor!!! The kid’s got style…what can I say?

The rest of the photos are here.

I always find it funny that on http://store.apple.com, the image that says “We’ll be back soon”, when they are making changes to their store, is being resized via HTML and not natively the right size, so it always looks “dirty”… Right click that image and choose to “View Image”, and you’ll see how it’s SUPPOSED to look.

The way I have it in this blog is how they have it on their store page as of right now.

This is how it’s supposed to look:

On the way back from my new daily walk, a guy got off the bus with a bag over his shoulder and a huge suitcase. He looked like he was from out of town, and he even mentioned “he wasn’t from around here.” I found it kind of odd, his urgency to find a Catholic Church. After I started going on about Woodward being a good option for finding a Catholic Church (we were on Cass, just south of Warren Avenue), he pointed to a church south on Cass, and I told him it was a Christian church. He said “that’ll do” and started walking towards it. I wonder why he needed a church so bad?

Someone at work said that he may have needed shelter. From the size of his suitcase, maybe it was all his belongings, and he actually did need shelter, although, he did look pretty put together.

Now this is pretty neat! I thought some of the geeks out there would appreciate this:

Goosh

Goosh goosh.org 0.4.4-beta #1 Tue, 03 Jun 08 22:59:00 UTC Google/Ajax Welcome to goosh.org - the unofficial google shell. This google-interface behaves similar to a unix-shell. You type commands and the results are shown on this page. goosh is written by Stefan Grothkopp // <[email protected]> it is NOT an official google product! // Your language has been set to: en (use lang to change it) Enter help or h for a list of commands.

[email protected]:/web>

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I had to blog this… one day, I’ll get back to blogging about computers, technology, and cool cars!

"…happy birthday to you!"

We celebrated Benjamin’s 3rd Birthday on Saturday, May 24, 2008!

For the rest of the photos.

One of Ben’s gifts was this new big wheel!

I think Ben did this because I do this to him!

The rest of those photos.

The rest of the pictures.

This is the view we had from the condo we stayed at on Marco Island!

Ben’s Backyard Originally uploaded by pfilias

We were SOOO excited to get Benjamin his very own “park”.

His reaction was priceless.

Here are the rest of the photos:

Ben’s Park