You can also find it on my music page soon
J

The arbitrary addition of 2 ft (61 cm) was to avoid the impression that an exact height of 29,000 feet (8,839.2 m) was nothing more than a rounded estimate.

Go check it out on wikipedia

One of my friends recently asked me why she would want to use firefox over internet explorer, “it’s all the same to me”, she said. So I decided to lay some proof out on the table. I feel strongly about this because I’ve been doing web design for a while now and the pain that comes with developing something to work on IE is unbearable!

First up I’ll share my personal experiences with you and then we’ll see some pro’s and con’s relating to firefox. As I mentioned, when you develop a website using current Web 2.0 standards with css you will always find that something is not displayed correctly on IE. I don’t care who you are, it always happens : I’ve just finished my design and it looks great in firefox, but then the dreaded moment comes and I realize I have to see how it looks in IE!! All of a sudden nothing is aligned and your transparent effects are gone! Yay IE! So then you hack the crap out of it to make it work on both browsers… Always fun!

Developing for IE is a big pain, but another thing that should hurt the everyday internet user is the speed with which IE loads pages… MAN!!! Here are some figures I ran myself, to show you the differences between FF and IE, speedwize (Used News24 as reference page) :

Internet explorer page load speed using a standard 512K adsl line in South Africa :  12.4 seconds

Firefox page load speed using the same line : 4.5 seconds

Now, if that doesn’t convince anyone to use firefox… Well then you are either stupid or Microsoft has paid you a lot of money to go to the dark side!

Here are some cool features that you might not have known about firefox:

• Firefox has various innovative and cutting edge security features like:
  • Instant Web Site ID
  • Private Browsing
  • Forget This Site
  • Anti-Malware
  • Parental Controls
  • Pop-Up Blocker
  • Customized Security Settings
  • Anti-Phishing
• Numerous customiztion options:
  • Add-ons
  • Awesome bar
  • Tags
  • One-click bookmarking, etc
• Excellent performance
  • Smaller memory footprint
  • Faster page load, etc
• Productivity features:
  • RSS feed reader
  • Download manager
  • Spell checking
  • Session restore,etc

Well ok, that’s it for now! Firefox for the win!

J

The new website layout is now complete. As I stated before I’ve divided the website into two categories. Category one is a music portal where you will find all of the music I wish to share with the world.

I have designed it so that everyone will have access to all the different kinds of recordings I make. There will be three types of recordings you can listen to. Studio recordings, living room recordings and music in creation. Studio recordings will be those recordings that I have recorded in a professional studio with proper equipment and knowledge. Living room recordings are the recordings that you all know by now. These are recordings I make on my own in my spare time in, you guessed it, my living room! Then there will be a new addition called music in creation. In this section I will host “scratch pad” recordings. These recordings are not by any stretch of the imagination good recordings, but they serve a purpose. They help me keep track of those songs that I feel need to be recorded, either in living room mode or preferrably studio mode. You can visit the music portal here.

Homepage

Ok, so from now on when you visit JohanGriesel.co.za you will find a homepage that gives you a choice. You can either go to the music portal or you can visit my blog. The blog is where I will be telling you a bit more about some of the recordings, the reasons for some of the lyrics etc. I will also use the blog to just write basically anything I find interesting.

Chat to ya soon!

J

My blog is finally an entity on its own! YEAH! I have decided to divide the website into two parts, one that will cater to the musician in me and another that will host all of what I get up to and other interesting stuffs.

I will also use the blog to tell you guys about new songs that are available on the music section of the website. I am really excited about this change!! The music section can be seen as sort of a music portal where you will be able to access all of my music that I will lay out in their different categories. You can also leave your comments on the music right there. Music will be downloadable or, if you like you will be able to listen to it straight from the website.

I’m doing things this way to make it easier for people to access my music. Now you don’t have to search through a bunch of blog entries to find that song that I recorded way back in 2004, all will be conveniently laid out for you to find!

Ok, chat to you soon! Bye 4 now!

J