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IE is the work of Beelzebub. No support for semi-transparent PNGs. Not standards compliant. Bugged. Slow. Ugh… This browser is an epic pile of suck. Please download Firefox or Opera if you use Windows.
W3 keeps track of browser statistics at this site: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp According to the data, IE accounts for 35.3% of browsers on the web. In fact, IE6, the bane of all web developers has almost 10% of the browser market. WTF?! Are these people too lazy to go to Mozilla and click download? I just don’t understand.
::rant off::
I’ve been working on a migration from B2evo to WordPress and all of the posts and comments have been moved but the theme still needs some work. Yesterday I started to develop a sinus infection and today I’ve felt like @#$% so I won’t be spending any time trying to fix the blog until I start feeling better. The sidebar is currently located at the very bottom of the page due to a CSS error.
The University of Washington) has some great research projects going on. This one made national news at MSNBC (article: here). The internet’s backbone consists of many thousands of routers speaking the TCP/IP protocol. TCP/IP was designed at DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to allow network traffic to take multiple routes to a destination. This provides for communication if one or more of the routers fails – a likely scenario in the event of a nuclear war. Because destinations can be reached though multiple routes, each individual path may or may not link to its destination. If it doesn’t link, any traffic that uses that route gets lost, forever. Never before have these ‘bad routes’ been charted. The CS department developed a tool to search for and track these black holes and they affectionately called it UW Hubble.
Check it out: http://hubble.cs.washington.edu
Posted by Hawk in Winter on 8 May 2008 at 3:40 AM
Categories: Internet, Projects & Research, Technology
Categories: Internet, Projects & Research, Technology
Mood: Very frustrated!
Internet Explorer sucks. Why? Becasue it doesn’t adhere to standards – it is a rogue browser and it needs to be deleted. Micro$haft sucks too! A Much better alternative is Mozilla Firefox. I highly recommend their e-mail client too.
From my friend Adam …
ACTUAL “ONLINE” NAMES:
All of these are legitimate companies that didn’t spend quite enough time considering how their online names might appear …. and be misread.
These are not made up. Check them out yourself!
1. Who Represents is where you can find the name of the agent that represents any celebrity. Their Web site is
2 . Experts Exchange is a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at
3. Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at
4. Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at
5. There’s the Italian Power Generator company
6. And don’t forget the Mole Station Native Nursery in New South Wales
7. If you’re looking for IP computer software, there’s always
8. And the designers at Speed of Art await you at their wacky Web site
So I was checking my webalizer today and marveling at who has been looking at my website and what they were searching for to find it in the first place. Sure my site gets hit regularly by friends & family, coworkers from Apple and Intel, a friendly ex, an emotionally unstable psycho ex, and a host of other people from my past who I’ve lost touch with and wish I hadn’t. The more exotic hits are really what amaze me though. I actually have web traffic from Iran! I mean.. WTH? Are the mullahs, imams and mujahedeen trying to make sure my conservative rants are not offensive to Allah? Besides that strange visit, I also have browsers from every European country, South Korea, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, Cyprus (probably my old roommate Socrates) and Japan (probably my buddy Ben). So far over 100k hits and counting. Pretty cool for a small site that I don’t update that much!
Here are some of the phrases that random people are searching for when they found my site:
1 4 19.05% closet
2 2 9.52% statement of purpose for master in system on chip
3 2 9.52% when are baby shubunkin fish born
4 1 4.76% computer my experience software statement sop
5 1 4.76% firmware engineer earn
6 1 4.76% hawk in the winter
7 1 4.76% hawk in winter
8 1 4.76% hawk winter
9 1 4.76% japanese koi pond photos
10 1 4.76% japanese maple waterfall photo
11 1 4.76% large koi pond photos
12 1 4.76% peela how to access plesk
13 1 4.76% scott hauk computer
14 1 4.76% statement of purpose for electrical engineering and shipping
15 1 4.76% the hawk of winter
16 1 4.76% what is recoaro italy like in the winter
1 3 15.79% titan missile silos in washington state
2 1 5.26% celtic redheads
3 1 5.26% computer automation statement of purpose
4 1 5.26% cryosleep music
5 1 5.26% gazebo pond backyard
6 1 5.26% hawk winter
7 1 5.26% japanese garden cal poly wedding
8 1 5.26% japanese tea houses structure patio
9 1 5.26% japanese weeping cedar photos
10 1 5.26% ken egaro
11 1 5.26% koi lantern
12 1 5.26% old pond landscape
13 1 5.26% redesigning a concrete patio
14 1 5.26% statement of purpose graduate nano
15 1 5.26% terracrawler
16 1 5.26% the morros near san luis obispo
17 1 5.26% winter hawk
1 2 22.22% closet
2 1 11.11% brick planter as koi pond
3 1 11.11% guadalupe cantua
4 1 11.11% how to build a pond venturi
5 1 11.11% landscaping pictures path patio
6 1 11.11% montalban manor
7 1 11.11% picture of mondo grass as ground cover in stepping stones
8 1 11.11% winter hawk
1 1 33.33% bishop peak san luis obispo ca
2 1 33.33% koi in winter
3 1 33.33% koi ponds with gazebos pictures
Crazy! Huh? Especially closet??? huh?
Yeah…. this is a fair fight. ;)
So my internet / email / website are obviously back online and have been for quite a while now. Sorry I haven’t updated you sooner, I’ve just been incredibly busy. I’ve got lots of updates for you but I’m not sure when I’ll get around to posting them. Theresa and I are going down to Crater Lake this weekend – which is a 4-day weekend thanks to Intel. Catch you all soon!
So I let my domain registration expire… Didn’t mean to. It just… happened. Perhaps it was because I had to move and was distracted by relocating to another state. While that makes a great excuse – its still an excuse… I was just lazy and should have renewed months ago. I recently re-registered my domain with Yahoo but they don’t accept domain transfers! This means that I can only re-delegate from my French registrar, gandi.net.
To summarize the above paragraph: My website, www.hawkinwinter.com, and my email addresses associated with that website will be unreachable until I can find out how to fix them and bring everything back online.
Probably not going to happen any time soon considering I’ve been super busy and spend 99.9% of my free time with my GF. I’ll be stuck in the lab until late tonight, trying to decipher logic analyzer traces. Yes, I’m using a logic analyzer to probe 18-30 seconds worth of asynchronous serial data! That basically means I’ll be reconstructing data words by hand…. fun fun :)
He commited suicide!
