It has been about 24 hours Chrome was launched and already there is quite a buzz around the new beta of Google. Several experts have scrutinized the first release of the browser and there is a lot of enthusiasm… and also critique.
To be honest I thought the stage was set. Safari to Windows platform, Firefox 3.0 released, IE 8 to come. A whole ‘new’ cycle of browser wars to see who comes on top. Little did I suspect a ‘late comer’ to the next round in browser slug wars.
But here it is: Chrome.
I sometimes wonder why it is I never can have ‘standard’ malfunctions in my computer hardware. It’s as if fate wants to keep it challenging for me and keeps tossing me the ‘interesting’ issues.
My dear sister had asked me to please reinstall everything on her laptop as it was heavily polluted with all kinds of residual software from the era my dad used to use it. I am always more than happy to help out my little sister with that kind of stuff.
She is gone with my parents to South Africa (chasing Lions n’ stuff) so this was the perfect opportunity for me to make things right for her. I picked her laptop up the evening before the left and the CDs to reinstall it all.
Little did I suspect the calamity that was on my path.
Today one of my co-workers was victim of a major problem on the dutch railway service from and to Amsterdam; he came almost 2 hours late at office because of a ‘computer malfunction’ which resulted in the signaling and switches wouldn’t work. Apparently the computer that is responsible for dealing with these systems suffered a hard disk crash.
