Well last night at 8:00 P.M. last night, I finished up my last class for this year. That is why I haven't wrote anything on the site for over a week, it's not that I didn't want to, I was just really busy with finals and everything.

Firefox 3.0 beta 2 was released three days ago and I have decided to download it and play with it. So far it is fairly similar to 2.0. So far, most everyone is raving about the fixed memory leaks that people complain about. But I personally never noticed a problem except will dealing with some Flash items. I have only major problem I have seen is with AJAX, for example the Hotmail Live or the new Yahoo! mail. This strikes me as weird, because I don't really seem to be having troubles with Javascript. One new feature I notice is if you click close when you have tabs open, instead of just asking if you want to close or cancel, you can save the current tabs to be there when you open Firefox the next time. It also has a better way of asking if you want to remember your password. Instead of asking you before it sends the request to the server, it now goes ahead and logs you in, then a drop down at the top appears like the image below.

Firefox now renders the Acid 2 test properly. And speaking of which, I would like to congratulate the IE Team for doing the same thing with their IE 8 Beta (which has not been released yet). IE is finally trying to go more standards based which I am happy about, whether this was caused by the complaint that IE is not standards based issued by Opera or not, I am still happy to see they are trying to follow the standards. But anyways, I would only recommend that you download Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 if you like playing with new things.

It's always been humans dream to fly like a bird, but the closest we have come involves using machines. Now there are a few groups throughout the world that are trying to "fly" without machines and land without a parachute. Their biggest problem at the moment is the landing without using a parachute. It looks pretty cool, and extremely dangerous. For a full article, visit the NY Times full story. And the top video below is Loïc Jean-Albert of France and the one below that is Max Hurd.

I spoke last week about a program that would allow you to have four desktops and allow you to spin them like a cube. I wanted to make a video demostrating it, but I had problems editing the avi video that I recorded, so if any of you know a good free program that can edit the size of a avi video, let me know. But any ways, the program is called YOD'M 3D (Yet Another Desktop Manager). Well that's what it is used to be called. Otaku Software aquired it and renamed it to DeskSpace, and made it no longer free. Well you can find the old versions, such as 1.4 for free. The only down part to doing this is you cannot get any updates. A short demo is below, and YOD'M 3D version 1.4 can be download from this site on the Software page.

People a while back wondered why I didn't have comments on my web pages. There were a couple reasons: 1. I wasn't getting a whole lot of traffic a year ago, and 2. I didn't know PHP and prefer to code everything I possibly can myself. Reason being, it makes me learn something new instead of implementing something that is already done. So since I was suppose to be doing my homework last night, I needed a distraction. So I started learning PHP, and vuala, now there are comments. I am not going to go back and put them on all my old posts (I only did that for 11/29/2007), but they will be on any new post from here on out at the bottom of a post.

If you have signed into Xbox Live today, you have been prompted to download an update, the Fall Dashboard update to be more specific. And here is a break down of what the update included:

More Download Options
• Xbox Originals – You will be able to download some of the original Xbox titles such as Halo, Fable, and Psychonauts.
• Xbox Live Arcade Hits – Some of the most popular XBL Arcade titles will be offered at a reduced cost.
New Ways to keep up to date and connected
• Inside Xbox – A feed that will pull news directly from Xbox.com to help keep you up on the latest game release, events, offers, etc.
• Enhanced Online Profile – You can add more information about yourself besides a motto and make this new information only available to friends or to the entire world.
• Expanded Friends List Access – You will be able to see the friends list of one of your friends, making it easier to expand your friend list.
Enhanced Overall Experience and Control
• Enhanced Parental Control – A Family Timer that allows you to flexibly control the amount of time a child or other profile is to allowed to play per daily or weekly.
• New Video Features – Full screen video previews and enhanced video codec support (Xvid/AVI is one).
• Easy-to-use Navigation Features – New Game Store button, New Video Store button, and enhanced visuals and descriptions in the video library.