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Saturday, July 12, 2003
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Analysis of x86 vs. PowerPC processors -- Comment()
OS News provides a nice analysis of x86 vs. PowerPC processors: "Things are changing, Linux and other Operating Systems are becoming increasingly popular and these are not locked into x86 or any other platform. x86 is running into problems and PowerPC looks like it is going to increasingly become a real, valid alternative to x86 CPUs both matching and exceeding the performance without the increasingly important power consumption or heat issues."
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-- Comment()
Forget the Law, forget the technology -- what's the decent thing to do? "Taking a vacation from weblogging should mean not reading weblog entries, as well as not writing them. Otherwise something's going to pop up and engage your attention, and your writing vacation is over. Mark Pilgrim wrote a application that tracks changes for Scripting News, which he calls Winer Watch. It grabs Dave Winer's RSS feed and annotates changes between each iteration -- color coded for deletions, changes, and additions. I understand why Mark wrote this. Anyone that's tangled with Winer knows how he will write something vicious, and then later delete it or edit it -- after the damage has been done. [...] I can understand, but I cannot agree or approve." [Burningbird]
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One eye shut in the light -- Comment()
In the middle of last night I went to the bathroom and switched on the light. I kept one eye closed, so that when I went back to bedroom I could still see with this eye adapted to the dark. This time I noticed how the eye which had been open in the light felt a bit different, like it were trying hard to adapt to the dark, or trying to focus without knowing where to focus. I don't remember where I learned the trick of keeping one eye closed. Perhaps in the army, due to some night exercises where it was important to preserve night vision at least half-way. It takes (for me) about 10-15 minutes until the eye adapts well enough to the dark after beeing for a while in the light.
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