The truth hurts

THIS is a response to Jean-Mathieu and Anil, both of whom responded vehemently to my post on Nomad. It started as a reply to their comments, but I decided to make a post of it.

Would either of them two (if they are actually two different persons) care to point out where my analysis (if they consider that post to be one) is wrong?

Jean-Mathieu, you’re mistaken about me getting commissions from Emtel. You see, when a company provide a good service, it’s natural for their customers to praise them without needing any monetary incentive. Unfortunately, there are only bad things to be said about Nomad, and I wouldn’t lie about it even for money. Here’s what is a fact for me: Emtel rocks, Nomad sucks. Period.

(If you had read my blog in the past, you would have seen that I have written a few good things about Nomad, but that was a very, very long time ago.)

Democracy talks about neutrality? When did I say this blog was democratic and allowed free speech? It’s written and paid for by me, so if you don’t like it, feel free to fuck off. The only reason I’ve even allowed your comments through is so I can have a laugh.

From AFRINIC, the IP address (196.22.145.15) from where both Jean-Mathieu’s and Anil’s comments originate:

Maybe it’s my turn to question if Jean-Mathieu/Anil has/have anything to gain by supporting a company that do so much dis-service to their customers.

Eddy.

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Four easy steps to running WebKit on Windows

WebKit gets a new ace pet.

THE WebKit development team announced SquirrelFish yesterday.

SquirrelFish is the new interpreter in the JavaScript engine and is 1.6 times faster than the one used previously. It is also part of the latest nightly builds of WebKit and is, therefore, available to everyone.

Even though installing and running the development version of WebKit is straightforward on Mac OS X (it is just a matter of downloading the .dmg file and copying the application bundle to /Applications), Windows users may find the task daunting.

But, they should not. Here is how to get WebKit running in four simple steps.

UPDATE: You need to run run-nightly-webkit.cmd at least once, as in step 4.

Use the Acid3 test page to verify that your installation is successful; the test result should be 100/100.

To test the speed of SquirrelFish, you can execute the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark and compare the results with those from another browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Opera). But, Processed Tower Defense is probably a more fitting and fun way of testing this impressive new JavaScript engine.

Enjoy.

Eddy.

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The absurdity of policing targets

EVEN as the Police Federation of England and Wales was appealing against the “culture of targets” which encourages handling of petty offences instead of more serious crimes in order to meet objectives set by the government, I witnessed an event that would have been a perfect example to support their case.

Following a father-daughter squabble next door, four police officers were dispatched to arrest the father. He spent a few hours at the police station and was released the same day, and his 18-year old daughter was allowed back in the house the next day, her un-daughterly stunt forgiven and forgotten apparently.

As we found out later, what had mobilised such an important contingent of law enforcers were the father merely grabbing the daughter’s arm to prevent her from stealing his money and her, in a hissy fit, calling the police on him for bodily harm. She then dropped the charge, pleading that “she did not know that her father would be put in prison”.

The following evening, the whole family enjoyed a well-deserved BBQ together, probably as a “welcome home” party for the father and the daughter. It was all cheers and laughs again, and no longer was anyone thinking what a “cow” the daughter was. At least, until her next burst of tantrum.

During that time, the four police officers were still dealing with the paperwork for the arrest presumably while their colleagues on the streets were stretched thin. And somewhere else in the county, another youth was getting knifed.

Eddy.

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