Posted by Andrew Cooper on September 15, 2008
A new browser
I installed Google’s new browser, Chrome, yesterday largely because the most recent release pf the usually reliable Firefox keeps crashing and contains some annoying bugs (it won’t allow me to add more than about 5 bookmarks to the bookmarks tooldbar nor will it install Delicious.com buttons).
Chrome is blisteringly fast but appears to lack some basic browser functions. In fact it will do most of what I want it to do and, importantly for me at least, the bookmarks toolbar is fine. Dragging Delicious bookmarklets intended for Firefox onto the bookmarks folder provides me with an equivalent of the missing buttons in FF and there are various other workarounds: see this for example. I wonder if those clever people at Google have hidden things like the bookmarks folder so that we can have the fun of discovering them.
Wouldn’t put it past them: could be some more cunning viral marketing (like the ‘accidental comic’ launch) and if we work out how to use it without being told we feel clever as well and want to tell others. Remember how that felt when you were little? ‘Hey Dad, look what I can do!’.
They’ve also launched an open source project called Chromium so lots of add-ons and widgets will, no doubt, be winging our way very soon.
I’ll let you know if/when it crashes, but as of now Firefox is relegated to second place here at Mindworks Global HQ.
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Posted by Andrew Cooper on September 10, 2008
A blogger
I started this blog in December 2006. For the next 18 months I neglected it. I didn’t imagine that anyone would read it and thought it would waste a lot of time. Then, in July 2008, I realised who blogs are for: the person who writes them.
Since then I’ve written a fair number of posts. Many of them are, one way or another, about thinking, systems ideas, computer based technology or psychology: topics which fascinate me.
If you wander around here you’ll find that in one post I invent the nuclear powered tea pot andin another I list my Desert Island Quotes. The blog also includes complaints about management consultants (I am a management consultant, so I should know); videos of JFK declaiming one heck of a vision and much more.
If you do find any of this interesting or mildly amusing feel free to comment or to get in touch.
Andrew Cooper, Newbury, UK
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Posted by Andrew Cooper on August 3, 2008
See this.
You can see the results of my first attempt at Flipping here. It was the day after we first met and she was fresh out of the box, having flown in from the US over the weekend. Just Flip and me on the banks of the K&A, with me mumbling sweet nothings into her mic. Since then our relationship has blossomed. She comes with me wherever I go and later today I’m going to screw her … sorry, Sheba interrupted me just then …. screw her onto a tripod and spend half an hour videoing something which I hope will be very special – and which will feature in my new ‘retail offering’. More on that story later.
I expect you’d like to see her, wouldn’t you? OK then, here she is. Look, she’s giving you a little wave! Bless!
PS – I’ve just noticed that Flip have a UK web site and one of these, which I came across a while ago, would be handy.
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