Fuddland

Powered by the whatever-you-want-it-to-be Konfabulator, I have a little widget that sits in the corner of my screen and lets me know the outlook for the next few days, weather-wise. It looks very nice and tidy and the images provide an easy at-a-glance idea of what the weather will be like.

Except that, rather worryingly, this Thursday — because I can’t figure out what else they might mean — it looks as though we in the East Midlands are going to be having a shower of kryptonite meteors. Let’s hope Clark isn’t spending Christmas at Leicester’s Holiday Inn.

[Interestingly, the OED and dictionary.com differ slightly in their definitions of meteor. There are three distinct stages, each of which gives a new name to the same object: a piece of rock floating in space, smaller than an asteroid, is a meteoroid. If a meteoroid falls to Earth then once it has landed it is a meteorite. On these two, both references agree. But according to the OED, when the meteoroid enters the Earth’s atmosphere and becomes incandescent with the heat, it is a meteor [that is, the meteoroid has become a meteor], which is what I thought. But dictionary.com says that the streak of light is a meteor, caused by a meteoroid falling through the atmosphere.]

The following is an entry which follows on from the above:

1. Kryptonite meteor shower update [amongst other things] [Fuddland]. Excerpt: Not so much as a meteor drizzle. Must have missed us--lucky escape. So here's where things stand at the moment: it now appears that things are not on track to finish my PhD at the end of March. The end...

#1

Gordon | 2004 / 12 / 21 – 22:42

What’s your mem usage like with Konfab? I dumped it for a similar script from samurize (.com). Looks very similar but runs under 3kb instead of the 1MB Konfab was pulling from my system.

#2

David | 2004 / 12 / 21 – 23:34

Re #1: Looks like it’s currently using up just under 5Mb, but I don’t really know if that’s a lot or not. I’ve got a total of 768Mb of system memory, so my resources rarely get low enough for me to need to do anything about it. :) But I guess a smaller footprint is better, so I’ll check out the site you mentioned [it appears to be down right now though].

#3

Lyle | 2004 / 12 / 22 – 11:46

I stick with Weatherfox (I think it might’ve changed its name in the latest release) on the Firefox browser, and that does me nicely.

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