Chris Schiffner’s Corner of the Web

Well, the 3G launch day is here and the lines are pretty rediculous. I decided to check out the AT&T store in Floral Park. Here is a video of the scene, cheesy commentary and all…

Cathy and I were able to see 3 shows last week; August: Osage County, Boeing-Boeing, and Alfred Hitchcocks: The 38 Steps. Its actually kind of funny because we generally go for musicals but decided it would be nice to see a play for a change. Instead we saw three!
August: Osage County
After cleaning house at the [...]

Here I am, sitting at my desk and I’m wondering how is it that we even have power? This is the worst thunderstorm I have seen in years. The thunder, the lightning, the horror! I just went out on the roof to check the situation out and I have to say I was absolutely [...]

After a tumultuous morning I was finally able to download Mozilla’s Firefox 3. This version has been greatly anticipated because it has tremendous improvements over its previous versions in two key areas; Memory Management and Rendering. So far Firefox has been using roughly 1/3 the memory it would previously use. It is also freeing up [...]

Will we see the launch of the 3G iPhone today? I for one certainly hope so. Live audio coverage of the WWDC Keynote is available at: http://iphonefreakz.com/2008/06/09/live-audio-coverage-of-wwdc-2008/
If you prefer web updates check here: http://www.macrumorslive.com/
Stay tuned…

I have been purchasing gas for my ‘83 Chevy Caprice from the Hess gas station in Bellerose for several years now. Ever since gas prices hit $3.50 a gallon I have not been able to fill up with a single swipe of my credit card because they limit transactions to $75. While its slightly inconvenient [...]

Trent Reznor has released the newest NIN album free for download from http://www.nin.com/. Its a pretty cool move considering the fact that record sales will likely receive a devastating blow, however as it has been pointed out to me they will still make a ton of money off of merchandise and from touring. Its just [...]

Yesterday Mozilla released version 2.0.0.14 of Firefox which contained a security update to their world renowned web browser. The release contained only one change; patching a security hole in javascript garbage collection which could* be exploitable.
I have spent today reading articles about this “huge security threat to Firefox”. The bug was in fact not [...]

I have completed the re-write of php Referrer Stats. The projects name has changed to POLAR Statistics. After going through a significant re-write the statistics package is finally at the point I wanted it to be at for the initial release. The interface is completely updated and now uses tabbed navigation. Graphing has been added [...]