External Javascript from ShareThis is kinda slow and I decide to be less of the social, to gain more of the speedy. Disabling ShareThis plugin makes all my pages load faster. Say no to external JavaScript.
Except for Google analytics.
And except Google ads.
At least Google JavaScript loads pretty fast.
Crashes faster. Five minutes is all it took. [Thanks Wynn.]
(Google Chrome is faster than Mozilla Firefox.)
I like the Incognito icon at the top left. That’s the porn mode right?
(Google Chrome Incognito mode.) (more…)
Delicious is the tool I primarily used to store my bookmarks. (So if it’s down or have a corrupted database, I’ll be crying at one corner.)
The new interface is great except for this:
Accessing too quickly? It happens too often for me these days. I know I’m good at quick clicks but don’t do this to me Delicious, at least not when I am your faithful user the past one and half years. We’re still cool with each other right?
I’m honest! ‘Cause today - especially today - the blog actually loads faster than usual (i.e. all the yesterdays). Usually people write in to their web hosts to make complaints, saying this don’t work that don’t work. And when it works, they keep quiet.
I tell you what, later I’m going to write a short note to commend my web host (Media Temple) for their great work, erm, for today. And hopefully, for the many days to come too.
I can’t help but to notice the speed improvements of jQuery 1.2.6, released yesterday. It claims event handling is 103% faster.
This is not the first time jQuery surprise developers with speed improvements.
You can download the new jQuery here.
Take a look at the preferences:
I wish they come out with Acrobat Reader Lite or something. Acrobat Reader is just filled with crap I don’t want at all.
Adobe Reader actually feels slower and slower these days. I just want something to read my documents with, I don’t want to fill in form, don’t want 3D, don’t want JavaScript, don’t want collaboration tools, don’t want read aloud tools and all those additional navigation tools.
Acrobat Reader is in this stage where they have nothing to add in the software any more and the program managers just have to get creative in order to keep everyone’s jobs. All the additional fanciful tools just serve maybe 1% of your customers. The rest of 99% are totally clueless why a bunch of text take so long to load.
I’m really happy today and I keep posting new entries. And why is this so? Because my internet seemed a lot faster and Media Temple seem to be behaving pretty well. Is it the end of their storage and whatever problems?
We’ll see. But so far so good. I’m pleased. I mean, at least these stuff actually is loading.
On a side note, having internet has always decrease my productivity a little. So much things to read, so much things to catch up. Often, I hear people saying they aren’t productive and attribute it to the internet. I work and breathe the internet, and I thereby admit that I grew unproductive due to it. I guess that’s a reasonable tradeoff considering the wealth of information available in the internet.
Even with search, newsreaders, social networks and blahblahs, I never really achieve much productivity boosts. These tools merely introduce new distractions, new things to try on. Things that require your time, your energy. Things that break time and again and have this huge beta label on it.
I live by them now.