Thursday, July 29, 2010

On cluelessness and racial self-identification

This was a response to Eric Raymond's recent blog post about "the perils of ethnic identification" and why his racial identity isn't a big deal to him. It is an interesting article in its own right, but my response was prompted by a comment made by a "William O. B'Livion", in which he said:

Saturday, July 24, 2010

FroYo on the Droid, a Browser Benchmark Update

Yesterday I rooted my Droid to install the "FRG01" leaked version of Android 2.2 (FroYo) for my Droid. I figured I'd run the SunSpider browser benchmark again to see what (if anything) had changed as far as the browser went. I knew that there were supposed to be speed improvements in FroYo, both to the underlying Android system and also with the browser specifically, so I figured I'd put the fancy new JIT to the test.