So I've been reading the archives of Dinosaur Comics for a long time trying to get caught up (there is a link to the site on the right at the bottom). Man, there are a lot of them! Anyway, this one stood out as being particularly hilarious. Enjoy.

So, since the WWDC keynote address on Monday, there has been quite a hubbub about all the various aspects of OSX Leapord (now in my wishlist on the right). I have to say they are very exciting. Also announced was the public beta of Safari 3, now available for Windows as well as Mac. All you Internet Explorer users out there would benefit greatly from Safari 3 since it is literally twice as fast as IE. Safari is also more robust and feature-rich than IE, as well as more secure.

Firefox users, on the other hand, may want to play with Safari, but will probably not find a good reason to switch just yet. The real problem with Safari right now is flexibility. I suppose as soon as the Software Developer Kit gets out there and all the gurus with too much free time get on the job, many plugins will appear to fill the void, but Firefox right now has several features that make my life much easier. Not having them in Safari has been a little annoying. It's nothing frustrating; just enough to make me say "Gah!" and back up and redo something the long way to get it right.

I now have a really good reason to learn Ruby on Rails and possibly AJAX. Both are languages for deploying web applications. Ruby I'm more interested in because it is much more straightforward and easy to learn from what I hear, and it is more supportive of the open-source community on the internet. The reason for this interest is for developing applications for the iPhone. Apple, in order to protect the iPhone from software that would compromise it's stability, has announced that applications may not be directly produced for the hardware. Instead, iPhone applications may be produced in the form of web applications users can access through Safari. While this is not really the most preferable situation for developers, it should end up being just fine. I don't know what sort of thing I would make, but  I do want to make something.

Also, my Samsung has been shipped. I should get a refund on Tuesday. I got a form to ship back the Motorola, as well. That will be sent tomorrow. For a little more good news, my friend's phone (the one I dunked) survived without any noticeable damage.