About Dale Nunns

I live in Cape Town, South Africa with my awesome wife and cute cat Domino. I'm a software developer, hardware hacker, some time cook, wannabe writer, chief bottle washer and tamer of dust bunnies.

Firefox 4

Yesterday I upgraded to the new Firefox 4…

I must say that it does look nicer than the old Firefox, unfortunately a little out of place on my Windows XP desktop but not too bad. Unfortunately it feels very sluggish, switching between tabs is rather slow and so is scrolling in pages. The worst though is that any longish textarea like the comment boxes in Facebook and the WordPress “Add New Post” page is very slow. On some pages I’m able to type about 10x faster than its able to put the characters on the screen.

I’m still not sure if loading of pages is faster and if there is a speed up in the Javascript engine I haven’t noticed it yet.

For the moment I’m going to give Firefox 4 a good chance to redeem its self and use it for a few more days… If I don’t grow to love up I’m switching back to Firefox 3 or moving over to Google Chrome.

Error 500 bookmarks?

To those people who’ve been wondering whats up with the bookmark round ups that get posted to the site and all the Error 500’s… its auto generated based on my bookmarks in delicious, which I haven’t used in a long time.

Obviously the dust bunnies have gotten in there and are causing some trouble. I’ll see what I can do to get you some better links.

Bookmarks for December 27th through March 23rd

These are my links for December 27th through March 23rd:

Bookmarks for October 28th through December 16th

These are my links for October 28th through December 16th:

Been neglecting my site a little lately…

Been neglecting this site a lot for the last few months, work, new house and DIY projects have been getting in the way… Photo’s go on Facebook because the wife doesn’t want the whole world to see the place and I’ve been trying to keep in touch with people in person rather than through electronic means.

The good news is the Garage “workshop” is nearly complete so I’ll soon be taking things apart, modding them and building new things… So please watch this place.

Bookmarks for September 1st through October 25th

These are my links for September 1st through October 25th:

Bookmarks for August 23rd through September 1st

These are my links for August 23rd through September 1st:

Bookmarks for June 28th through August 23rd

These are my links for June 28th through August 23rd:

New phone – nokia 5230 Rihanna

My mother in-law got a cellphone upgrade to the new Nokia 5230 “Rihanna” phone but didn’t wan’t it, so I got it…
So far I like the touchscreen interface and the gps is better than my old phone (Nokia N78) the camera is terrible though, no auto focus, no light or flash and its only 2MP old one was a 3.2MP.

This post was typed on it and sent using WordPress for nokia, which is pretty cool.