The Lair

I’ve been reading The Scheme Book and a slightly dog eared Military Maxims of Napoleon which I had lying around. Both completely reasonable things to be reading, given what I’m doing next week - but somewhat strange companions. Now, Machiavelli and the Scheme book? That sounds vaguely plausible.

By the way, no I am not planning on taking over continental Europe, the reading of military maxims has a far more prosaic explanation.

In other news, IceWeasel has been announced. One of those unfortunate things where you agree (in principle) with both sides of the case (as written here) but don’t really like the outcome. Although I have to admit that it’s a bit disingenuous to say that people will be confused by the name change. If you can’t handle the confusion of “Iceweasel == Firefox” in all but icons and names; the Debian installer would probably have been a traumatic experience (</rimshot>).

And since I can’t stop raving about it, my Firefox 2.0 has 33 tabs open and consumes a reasonable 147mb of RAM. Reasonable, I say because this browser instance has been up and running since Friday night without a restart. The Firefox of old would be around 400mb by now. Next week, I intend finding out if Greasemonkey contributed to the memory leaks. I’m taking this one extension at a time.