Sunday, December 16, 2007
I noticed yesterday Safari 3.04 on my old 1.42 GHz Mac Mini with 1 GB of RAM is dog slow compared with Opera. For example, I am unable to multitask at all in Safari whereas Opera lets me open other links in tabs and load them in the background and switch among the tabs as they are loading as I expect. If I do the same with Safari, it gives me the beach ball leaving me waiting for it to complete an operation. Opera shows me more of the page as it loads whereas Safari seems to wait until it has downloaded all the page's items before displaying anything. In setting up for our holiday party today I realized a great idea which I don't think is on the market yet: flat paperboard coasters with one side a Thanksgiving design and the other a December holiday design. We bought Thanksgiving coasters for our celebration last month, and it would have been super for us to pull the same ones out again and simply flip them over. Or the same thing but with December holiday and New Year's Eve designs. Usual oatmeal breakfast. Party setup and housecleaning. Patrick baked an almond christmas cake, and the smell of it is intoxicating. Used Flickr Uploadr 3.0 for the first time to upload party setup photos. Sweet—you can now prepare multiple batches for upload while your first batch is going up. The postupload web page is also great. The party went well, and the big surprise of the evening occurred when Conrad appeared—we hadn't seen him in years, and I guess others hadn't either. Nate made a gourmet plate of cookies for us and I shared them with everyone. (They were so good I think Patrick wanted to have kept them for himself!) Melissa brought two plates of delicious and festive cookies, having just gotten out of a holiday cookie exchange. Many others brought drinks. Sneeper and Scott brought a green tea liqueur which I found interesting.