We should’ve left this morning, but we didn’t have the money (plus, Mom has been bugging about the yard and mowing it), and now they’re having games all over Atlanta today, which would stymie any hope of getting through traffic without sacrificing much gas.

Fortunately, aunt Shirley promised Mom over the phone that she’ll replace the money that would have to be taken out of the money for books (at least $25 for one day) in order for us to get to AWA (plus gas). Unfortunately, that was in the afternoon, so we’ll most likely have to wait till tomorrow after church.

I went last year, but only on Saturday. This time, since we’ll be up there on Sunday, I’m expecting for things to wind down and be a little subdued.

Is that the case?

Firefox 2.0 beta (Bon Echo) was supposed to have Places, a complete rewrite of Firefox’s bookmark system with an SQL frontend. They pulled it at the last minute, however, because it was felt that they couldn’t perfect it in time for its scheduled release in October; it’ll show up in Firefox 3.0 (Q1 2007).

Places would’ve been a repository not only for bookmarks, but also for Live Bookmarks and History.

While it may have been an ill-timed add-on (in that the bookmark system had to be completely re-written), the rewriting of the bookmark system would’ve been rather useful for Firefox users.

However, I also think that Places would’ve (or will be) the start of the outsourcing of a long standing component of the Firefox browser.

Remember when Mozilla decided to outsource 4 of the 5 main components of Seamonkey (the original Netscape/Mozilla Suite)? Those are known today as Nvu (Composer), Sunbird (Calendar), Thunderbird (Email), and Chatzilla (IRC). What was left is known today as Firefox.

I think Firefox is heading to that point again as development progresses. Each release incorporates more of the useful third-party extensions as native components (Feedview, the extension that allows for you to read XML feeds in Firefox, will be incorporated natively into Bon Echo, for example).

Thus, if Mozilla intends to stay as relevant to newer generations of Firefox users, it will be fitting for it to begin outsourcing the older legacy stuff while incorporating the new and useful.

And as people are now storing and sharing bookmarks online (such as http://del.icio.us and others), it may make sense for Places (an offline repository for archived URLs) to be outsourced.

History repeats itself.

Aye, perfect day indeed….

Oh, and Arrrrrr!

Signed,
“The Pirate Pimp” (has a Three 6 Mafia feel to it)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5358520.stm

China, South Korea, Mexico, and Turkey will all benefit from these reforms, which include an increase of voting power. Currently, China has fewer votes than either Belgium or the Netherlands (even though its economy is twice the size of the two combined), while the United States has TWICE the voting power than any other member.

“The IMF’s main objective is to ensure global financial stability and to support the international financial system in times of crisis.”

It also acts in tandem with the World Bank; both are seen as very inept and biased towards the US and EU.

If you’re a big fan of non-kung-fu-related Chinese cinema, then you should be quite familiar with the works of Tsui Hark (Once Upon a Time in China, Black Mask, Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain, Chinese Ghost Story).

Well, back in 1997, he made an animated readaption of his 1987 film, Chinese Ghost Story, which was translated into English by VIZ Media. 9 years later, I dug this up from Bittorrent.

And let me just give you a blanket assessment of this in three words:

“Anime on Acid”.

The English dub sucks eggs, but my focus is being paid exclusively to the animation, which is a combination of celluloid and CGI (*alot* of CGI). It’s trippy, its stretchy, its exaggerated, it has its own flavor (which may border for a bit on the distasteful, although there’s nothing “naughty” in the film).

And I have only seen the first half so far (it’s still downloading…..like, a whole GB in this torrent, dammit)!

http://isohunt.com/download/9716679/chinese+ghost+story

Why, exactly, do they give a shit?

I mean, there’s a good joke in this second all-Islam bitchfest about the Pope, shit, and the woods, except that the “woods” in this case was Germany. Obviously, it must’ve been so bad that people in Pakistan were smelling it (or, better yet, *snorting it like crack*).

But I’m still wondering why Muslims are giving a shit about what people in Germany (or Denmark) are thinking about Islam. Of course, what the Pope said (even when he was quoting someone else) made the whole Catholic world look a tad bad in the eyes of over 1bn Muslims, but he’s only the head of state of a tiny country that is surrounded by the entire city of Rome.

Plus, Islam isn’t a subset of Catholicism, nor is it under its suzerainty (the predominately Catholic coountries of the world would rather have as few dealings with Muslims as possible). And aren’t they theologically poles apart over the status of Jesus?

So seriously, why do they care?

Is it because they’ll do this when someone else in Europe says something remotely bad about it?

I Fucked Ann Coulter In the Ass, Hard

and the sequel,

Back in Ann Coulter’s Ass-Saddle Again