Never noticed that "Hefty Fine" by The Bloodhound Gang is actually a superior album. I bought the album two years ago now. It has been in my iTunes all that time but since I am listening with both ears to the album it sounds great. Please note the album art is also very funny and can be viewed by clicking on the link (a bit NSFW).

The Opera team announced previous week that they will extend CSS3 support in Opera 9.5. Looks like this site and more and more sites like this one will be looking better in the next generation browsers. The first "weekly" build will appear in a few weeks. I hope the announced text-shadow CSS3 property and the better support for selectors are not the only new things coming. Looking at what Safari 3.0.2b and FireFox 3.0a6 both have I hope for the border-radius to be supported.

It will push the IE team even further to better support standards. This is again an important step for the next generation HTML sites. The current version, known as web 2.0 is mostly based on a centralized layout. As for me counts the new web-standards will people help make their sites more modular. People will in the future be able to access a site layout more easily then people do now. People will work more with drag and drop of modules, so they can customize their favorite sites.

One of the advantages of modular web-building is that you don't need to have special pages for options or program specials stylesheets. People will simply be able to customize a page with different kinds of input. The mouse will still work, but multi-touch will help people customizing the web. Every customization you make can simply be saved thanx to AJAX and AJAX-like technologies. While there is currently no real implementation of such technology I am pretty confident we will see it before the end of 2008 floating around over the web.

With the new Safari 3 beta 99% of the Nightly features have gone mainstream. I think this is really cool and people should know about it. The Windows version is making his first public appearance. There has been development on the Windows browser for roughly 2 years now. The Windows version is not as stable as I hoped, but that will probably change soon. Get your copy now from the Apple site and go test it out. This site will look much better now.

In the upcoming months I will do some work on testing, writing bug reports and test cases for the WebKit project to help improve this project even faster. The speed is just amazing. Even with features as CSS box-shadow enabled Safari loads faster than any other browser on the PC or Mac. I hope the browser can see a few more improvements in the final build in Leopard.

The Leopard demo Steve showed at the WWDC was absolutely amazing. A lot of people have been complaining about Apple that they expected a lot more, but people have probably been reading too much rumor site bullshit. This was for the Macintosh fan just about the best KeyNote they could get in years, but still they hope for more. More will come, but overtime. Not everything can be done at the same time. Even if things where already ready for showtime. Steve probably held them back to keep the iPhone in the spotlight.

Warning: Just some details from my head, these do not come from official sources or anything. But for people with bingo cards coming from the web: just toss them, they are wrong in any way.

Revamped Mac Pro:

Processor: 1 QuadCore 2,33 GHz, 1 QuadCore 2,66 GHz, 2 QuadCore 2,66 GHz or 2 QuadCore 3,0 GHz.
2 GB of 1000 MHz DDR3! (expandable to 16 GB).
320 GB HD (expandable to 4 TB (4x1 TB)
nVidia 8600 GT standard, BTO 8800 GTX and Quadro FX 5500 (No ATI cards)
New chipset
Blu-ray option

Price drop standard configuration.
Available in 2 weeks

New displays preview:

Multi-touch & thinner
Available alongside Leopard

Leopard:

Core-Animation, changing the world with Multi-touch. Steve will show a new display with Leopard. Core-animation will speed up multi-touch features.
The new GUI will be discussed.
Talk about syncing, new .mac, your phone and your iPod. iPhone to be connected directly to .Mac!
Steve will show a fully 64-bit version of an application that runs twice as fast on the new 64-bit system. Also other performance optimizations will be showed in multithreading, QuickTime, Graphics.
Steve will take up a security part.
ZFS will be discussed.
iChat phoning, making it as easy as it should be.

More Steve: Talking about the new MacBook Pro, iPhone.

Steve will do a small announcement on stage.

The WWDC Leopard build will be stable. Issues remain, but development processes should be completly stable.
The 90 minutes presentation will not give enough time to discuss everything Leopard, but the Apple site will be updated.

Creating time is not the most easy thing in life. Especially not when you work >40 hours a week, try to have fun, try to update your contacts and want to run your own website. School is also getting up my ass, but well, I can counter that.

What I actually learned in the latest weeks is that my last 1.5 years of school where almost completely useless. Now I was always already upset at how this were being worked out at school and it seems that I was (always!) right. Now that is not the point I want to make, but the fact that you have done nothing that can help you any further in your knowledge and job is really disappointing.

If I talk to people from others schools, the difference in what we have learned is huge. My colleague has after completing the same levels as I did, tons more of qualifications for example. I have only one at level 1! (As of note: I was the only one in my class to get that qualification.) My second big point on this matter is that I learned a lot of things that are completely useless and I did not learn things I actually should know at this stage.

Since I already started blaming my school, they also take money for me behind my back. It seems that my current training period company pays my school (it seems to be a contract) and so I get nothing, while I am supposed to. I think my school has a lot to explain these days, or else I am really exit.

About my personal situation: My body seems to become old (I'm 18 now), but falling asleep at 11:30 PM as I did the latest days is not really normal for me. The last time that happened more than once a weak was years ago. On the other side I've not felt any illness for already two years, what is a record for me. Making an exception for my Appendix last year.

So far so good, I keep working on this website now and I will see what comes around these days.

Just cleaned up the blog database, because I changed some things. Need to do more on this site, but I'm very very busy at this time.