More Browsers!

Right on the heels of Safari for Windows comes Google Chrome. Bandolero was on that in a hurry! It gave a good ride, but quickly got bad press for heavy-handed EULA which Google quickly toned down but then poured in reports of security holes which we assume they’re working on. Bandolero found the open source source for unbranded Chrome where anybody can pick up the latest daily version of the thing, if they want, no EULA required, which Bandolero did.

And then Bandolero revisited an old favorite, Avant Browser, and found it had been upgraded a few times since last downloaded and so downloaded latest version. In the course of doing so, discovered the Avant folks have also created an Avant version using Gecko (Mozilla/Firefox) engine, called Orca, and so downloaded it, naturally. The regular Avant runs on same engine as IE. Either way, Avant and Orca are still the fastest, even faster than Chrome, we think.

So the browser wars, like Bandolero, are in heat, it seems. We’re thinking of putting out the Bandolero Browser. Has a nice ring to it, eh? We’d have ordinarily provided links for all these mentioned browsers, but it’s late and Bandolero needs his sleep. Buenas noches, amigos.

Adios Epicurus

With great regret Bandolero bids upcoming farewell to amigo Epicurus whose blog, The Epicurean Blog, has always been a source of great inspiration and solace to Bandolero. That blog was a model of the written word, or a model of what the written word should be, or a model of great written words, or some sort of model, anyhow. But, alas and alack and apaddywack, the Epicurean Blog is about to become a thing of the past. Like many of Bandolero’s other amigos.

UPDATE: We are tardy in updating the above and foregoing post, and lo siento mucho. The Epicurean Blog, rather than disappearing, was reborn, rebirthed, remodeled, redesigned and realized as Epicurus Today! It is updated daily with stoic insight by our good friend, Bob Hanrott, and his comrades.