I'm Dan Previte, a web developer and a geek in general living in Chicago and working for Caxy Inc.
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So like the little web geek that I am, I downloaded Google Chrome the second it was available. I haven't been playing with it too long, but I am impressed so far.

The first thing I looked at was JavaScript performance. I used this site which runs some common JavaScript tasks over and over.

The results:


IE 8 (Beta 2)
Internet Explorer 8 (Beta 2)

FireFox 3
FireFox 3

Chrome
Chrome

So as you can see, Google Chrome is a lot faster than the other browsers I tested, at least as far as JavaScript performance. It's probably because there are no plug-ins or anything on top of Chrome, but it sure feels a whole lot faster. It's really smooth and doesn't have that frozen window problem that FireFox and IE both have.

So far I'm pretty excited about Chrome. I love FireFox, but Chrome implements some amazing ideas. Let's hope they catch on with the other browsers.

Nine Inch Nails - Cleveland

August 24th, 2008

This is a pretty crappy video, but the show was amazing. Definitely worth flying in for.

Some pictures from the show.

Set List:

  1. 999,999
  2. 1,000,000
  3. Letting You
  4. Discipline
  5. March of the Pigs
  6. Head Down
  7. The Frail
  8. Closer
  9. Gave Up
  10. Warning
  11. Vessel
  12. 5 Ghosts I
  13. 25 Ghosts III
  14. Ghosts III
  15. Ghosts Piggy
  16. The Greater Good
  17. Pinion
  18. Wish
  19. Terrible Lie
  20. Survivalism
  21. The Big Come Down
  22. 31 Ghosts IV
  23. Only
  24. Head Like a Hole
  25. Echoplex
  26. Reptile
  27. God Given
  28. Hurt
  29. In This Twilight

If the title gets you excited, and doesn't confuse and or bore you, then congratulations. You're a dork!

This is by far the coolest thing I've seen in a long time.


DokuWiki Code Swarm from Michael Klier on Vimeo.

It is a video made by showing commits made to the DokuWiki project over time. Useless, but awesome.

Lost Title Sequence

July 15th, 2008

Thank God that Lost doesn't have a title sequence. Especially one like this.
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via Big Bucket

UPDATE: An equally terrible video on College Humor