Archive for October, 2009
But then a colleague at the University turned me on to ClickToFlash, a Safari plugin that not only automatically disables the loading of flash content, it comes with this added little bonus: being able to load H.264 content from YouTube that is normally only sent to iPhone users, while us poor non-mobile Luddites are stuck with much crappier video quality. But no more, thanks to this handy plugin. I’ve been using this thing for a couple of weeks now and love it. If you’re a Safari user, install this bad boy without delay!
The utterance of sane words from a seat of power is both refreshing and welcome, but I also believe the Peace Prize should be awarded based on more substantive results, and not just because the new occupant of the Oval Office has pledged to discontinue the meatheaded policies of his predecessor. Because Obama’s Presidency is still very new (to say nothing of the fact that he was quite possibly nominated before he was even elected) his “contributions” are far from concrete, and thus lack a sufficient level of merit. Essentially, he’s been given an award because he hasn’t managed to fuck things up as bad as the last guy. Don’t get me wrong; I’m glad he is breaking with many of the bad policies we’ve labored under for the last eight years, but what has Obama really accomplished as President so far? The Nobel seems cheapened as a result.
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You know those Flash banner ads? The ones that feature silhouettes of dancing girls hawking mortgage refinancing? Or popups that play audio? Or the classier but mildly bandwidth-hogging corporate videos? While I appreciate that advertising is paying for content creation, it doesn’t erase the fact that a lot of Flash content is really annoying- and it can measurably delay pageload times on my crappy home DSL connection.
Even though I’m a huge liberal pinko and support most of the Obama administration’s foreign policy goals, I can’t shake the feeling he was 