Some time ago I posted an entry about how Safari always pauses for interminable periods of time. I found a reasonable, although not ideal, solution.
At least one possible cause for the delays is Safari poring over its cache of form field completions. If you uncheck the "other forms" in this preference panel, you can avoid that searching.

My friend Tantek, who works at Technorati, pointed me to an interesting tally of blog-based votes. It appears that they scan blogs for a particular link (i.e., for Kerry, against Bush), and then accumulate the results. So, in order to be a good voting blog citizen, I hereby cast my vote(s):

I support Kerry. Howard Dean would have been my first choice, followed by Al Sharpton, but I actually think Kerry's pandering is going to be a good thing, allowing him to be much more moderate.

I oppose Bush on the strongest possible terms. His stance(s) on religion, gay rights, the environment, domestic policy, foreign policy, fair elections, and probably everything else run so counter to my own notion of what's right for the country, that I can find no redeeming quality in the man. He couldn't even get the space program right (consider Mars Direct, instead).

A while back posted an entry about my Brother multifunction laser printer. In it I mentioned that 20-lb 3-hole paper almost always jammed, but that 24-lb paper worked. Well that wasn't quite true. 24-lb paper works about 70% of the time, but still jams far too frequently.
The longer I own this printer, the more and more disappointed I am with it. I could care less about the fax and scanner if the printer doesn't meet all my needs. It's painfully slow (at least compared to the HP 2300N at work), and often times can't print.
For example, printing AMC theaters movie listings from Safari results in a command syntax error. Printing the same page to a PDF file and then printing also does not work.

With my work and school schedules as demanding as they are, I decided that anything I can do to reduce number of hours I spend sleeping would be worthwhile.
Rejuvenate in Berkeley, CA (510 540-7100) just delivered the Tempurpedic 10" mattress I ordered a couple weekends ago. It's a little smelly (as was the pillow I got), but they assure me that the smell will dissipate (as it did for the pillow). In the meantime, I'm looking forward to my first night on the thing.

I recently bought the Brother MFC-8840DN Multifunction Laser Printer from Staples online. I wanted an HP 2300DN, but what I needed was a duplexing, networkable, Mac OS X-compatible laser printer. Mike Kobb pointed out the Brother, and I decided that it was a much better deal.
It arrived the day after I ordered it (free shipping!), and I excitedly set it up. It's very important to pay attention to the installation instructions--there are a great many pieces of stabilizing tape that need to be removed.
Of course, getting a Windows XP machine to work with it proved to be difficult, but the Mac OS X setup was a breeze (just copied the PPD, didn't bother with the MFC ad-ons yet). The printer supports Rendezvous, which is very cool.
Now comes the bad part: Almost everything I'm going to print will go into a three-ring binder. So, I bought some Hammerhill 20 lb. 3-hole multipurpose paper, which claims to work well in any copier or laser printer. Unfortunately, my MFC-8840DN just couldn't cope. It jammed 9 out of 10 times. My first attempt to get support from Brother was useless. My second attempt was better, in that I got a response, but they simply said that the printer is not advertised to work with 3-hole paper. Although the user manual mentions kinds of paper you should not use, it does not even mention 3-hole paper. Another exchange with the customer service rep produced nothing helpful. The manual did recommend Hammerhill 24 lb plain paper, so I decided to try a heavier stock.
The only way to get that was via Office Depot online, so I ordered a ream. Fortunately, using Hammerhill brand 24 lb 3-hole paper seems to work. If it starts to screw up again, I'll post here and let you know.