gif vs. jpeg vs. png => what image format should (I) you use?

normally when i'm working with images i use this guideline for picking my image format:

few colors/animation/transparency => gif
lots of colors/no animation/no transparency => jpeg
lots of colors/complex vectors/quality transparency => png

but you say, why not just use png all the time? it's all about file size, which goes from lowest to highest from gif -> png. for a better explanation check this out:
how to chose an image format

mccain is still wrong about obama's iraqi stance but no one is explaining it

the politics realm right now is 90% focusing on obama's overseas trip right now and mccain's logic and focus is still completely off on what obama is trying to say and i really don't think that anyone is explaining it correctly, not even the obama team.

mccain's stance is that obama should be like him and say that 'we can still win in iraq' and 'the surge has worked'. he uses these points to make it seem like obama was wrong in going against the surge and ultimately against trying to 'win' the war on terror in iraq. this logic is of course following the same pattern that the gop uses in moving focus from the real problems: 'we shouldn't have fucking been there in the first place' and 'the real war is in afganistan'.

yes, i do believe the surge helped and was good...yadda yadda. but why is iraq wanting us out so bad if there's so much percieved 'terror' still left in the area? the logic just doesn't make sense why we should be there anymore. the main terror cells and camps are in afganistan, and obviously move those people from there to iraq. what is there really to win in iraq and what do we have to actually acomplish to win there?

i don't really care that mccain is not giving a shit about going against the old rule that you don't attack a political opponent while they are overseas, but i just don't think that his attacks are really making any sense. though there's all these fucking news companies over there with obama and none of them explain in any depth the logic behind the baby's quarrels.

took them long enough! finally i can have firefox 2 and 3 both working with firebug!

ever since firefox 3 came out i've had one huge problem...i couldn't get firebug to work with both of them on the same computer.

there are 2 different versions of firebug, basically the old one is for FF2 and the new one(beta version) is for FF3. Joe Hewitt is really making the new version kick ass, but having the entire FF2/3 combo with the bug caused problems. the extensions were causing huge conflicts, and any way i tried i couldn't get it installed on both browsers.

now FF finally released 3.0.1 and 2.0.0.16 and my beautiful development plugin works on both browsers. you may ask...'wajiw, why do you even fucking need FF2' to which i reply, FF3 renders css and javascript more strict than FF2, so I must test them both to make sure my javascript/css intense sites (check out slippymap.com) work. which really...my FF version bugs haven't taken me more than 5 minutes to fix, as compared to IE version compatibility between 6 & 7 where it's taken me, litterally, up to 3 weeks to fix a bug, and i'm pretty good at my job.

so praise whoever you want...hallelujah....my life is much more stable now, and so is my browser.

FF3
firebug

now with 3 posts a week

i just moved downtown, and am tethering my phone to my computer. this means i have an extra 1.5 hours of simple work that i can get done on the train. yeah i know....totally rock'n! so i've decided it's time to start planning out posts, unless i have nothing useful to talk about of course.

i'm gonna start at 3 posts a week and see where that takes me. this one doesn't count of course. get ready for tha killa commentary on the shtuff that effects you!