This super-early look at Internet Explorer baffles me. The biggest benefit they tout is using the DirectX APi to use hardware acceleration for rendering web pages faster. This is like buying me a faster processor and then giving the credit to IE when pages load faster as a resutl. Wouldn’t a good Window Manager offload […]
Just in time for the holidays, TiVo is dropping their prices. Not only do you get an HD DVR, but you can also stream Netflix movies or purchase on-demand from Amazon Unbox. Thanks to the following discounts, you can now pickup a TiVo HD for $249.99 ($50 discount) or a TiVo HD XL for $499.99
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I really, really hope that it doesn’t come to a work stoppage. As in most labor negotiations, it seems like a lot of posturing on both sides. The players really don’t have a lot of leverage without threatening a strike or stoppage. Let’s hope both sides don’t get too close to the brink that there
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Wow, looks like at least one of my hunches wasn’t too far off the mark. Who’d have thought that the Microsoft Marketing hype might have a hard time delivering? I can think of at least two people. HT Gadgetopia Discussions with a number of ECM practice leads at major SIs (System Integrators) have told me
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This is a pretty balanced look at how Maine’s attempts to reform health care have proved difficult and have had unintended side effects. Its a big gamble to try this on a national level hoping for a different outcome. Maine is the Charlie Brown of health care. The state’s legislators have tried for decades to
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But really, what does that get me? It was with a bit of a smirk that I read about Ubuntu user’s pains in upgrading to Karmic, the latest release. Ubuntu’s previous release upgrade or two had killed my networking, to the point that I had to reinstall the whole OS and I instead switched to
Particularly in emails? I’m curious, and while I’m a fan of cleaner, and short, urls, I can’t find any evidence to support my hunch. If you’re sending links via email, and the url is not hidden behind an href, do complicated looking urls get less clicks? I suspect they would, because users will ignore them
I was asked the following question today and this is my stab at a response. I’d appreciate and welcome any feedback if you’ve worked with a Drupal multi-site instance. Can you clone sites? Or would you have to clone every part of a site and reassemble it for each site? It depends on what you
Ugh, is it a rule that when you become an activist you lose your sense of humor? Target had to pull this “Illegal Alien” costume, because some of mi gente didn’t like it. I find it funny, is there something wrong with me? See – its an Extraterrestrial – and , get this, he’s not
Wow! Mozilla Weave is a PHP application that you can run on your own server. Weave lets you sync data – bookmarks, passwords, and more – between Firefox on separate computers. HT: Untangling the Web with Mozilla Weave. Syncing passwords and bookmarks is old hat. Mozilla Weave, a Mozilla Labs project is a tool designed