Wonder where people with your last name live? Turns out most people with my last name (Hemel) live in Drenthe, a province of the Netherlands. Which, of course, I already knew but it’s fun to see where more people with my last name live. The World Names Profiler has first and last names indexed from 300 million people around the globe.
Yeah, they killed the Seinfeld and Bill Gates ads. Which, according to Microsoft, was the plan all along. Right. I read somewhere that a third commercial with Seinfeld was already produced and ready to air, but was pulled. Apparently because the responses were not very positive to the other ones. Personally I enjoyed them a lot.
Anyway, this is the ad that they aired instead:
It’s not bad, actually. It’s just… not that funny.
Can’t wait until a Mac version of Google’s Chrome is out? There is now an alternative to running it inside a virtual machine: CrossOver Chromium. It runs on Mac and Linux, and is essentially the open source version of Chrome (chromium) wrapped in Wine (Wine is No Emulator) that mimics Windows as much as possible.
Update: I installed it, ran it, threw it out. It interesting to see that it runs on a Mac, but it’s dog slow doesn’t blend in well with the rest of the desktop and crashed as soon as I went to Amazon.com.
The second advertisement with Bill Gates and Seinfeld just came out. Here ya go.
I must admit I really enjoyed it. It’s quite funny and Bill isn’t doing bad at all. It’s a nice commercial with not too obvious a message, it’s just nice to look at. And it still relates to Microsoft, it’s about connecting people, which is what their operating system apparently does. Looking forward to the next one.
Google yesterday Google Chrome, Google’s own browser based on Webkit. Read the comic to fully appreciate what it’s about. To me it seems that Google is promoting the browser to an operating system with Chrome. For instance because it has its own task manager:
and that each tab lives in its own process. This is not only safer, but also means you can see which tab (=application) is using up all the resources and simply kill it by closing that tab. I often have the problem with Firefox where one tab uses a lot of resources and I can’t figure out which so I have to kill the whole browser. With chrome you don’t have that problem.
Sadly Chrome is only available for Windows right now. I’m currently testing it on a virtual machine on my mac:
and I must say that even like that it’s quite snappy and it looks nice.
Can’t wait for a Mac version though.
Last friday I was at ProfICT’s Java summer camp giving a talk about WebDSL. The audience was mostly from industry, which was nice. The talk went well and I received a lot of positive response and questions about what we’re doing.
For those who are interested, you can find the slides of the talk here.
