New Mozilla project releases
I won’t try to duplicate the excellent summary Jason has put up of the new Mozilla releases. I’ll just encourage you to go try them out. And if you’re still using IE and Outlook, don’t make me come over there!
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Sandy Blogs Now
My friend and colleague Sandy Smith now has a blog. That’s almost 1/4th of the people I work with now have a blog. I also notice that I have the least interestingly named blog of them all so feel free to leave me suggestions for a new title via comments
The Debatey Bunch
Courtesy of my friend Sandy: It’s the story of Carol Mosley who was bringing up 3 white men on her own all of them were congressmen the youngest one was old She met a man by the name of sharpton who had three pols of his own and they knew they must somehow beat up
IE Complacency
Count me in this group of developers who wish Microsoft would fix their broken Internet Explorer. I also wish all you people out there still running IE 5.5 would upgrade too! But Zeldman warned against wishful thinking, noting that with hundreds of millions of people using Internet Explorer around the world, it would take more
Today in History
One year ago, I was tooling around Paris. In 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia. More events
Yahoo Search Feeds
Jeremy Zawodny has a piece on new, custom Yahoo Search Feeds. This looks great not only for tracking high profile issues lots of people are interested in, but also for digging up news you might not otherwise find. However, looks like if there are no results, instead of getting an empty feed you get a
Essential software for your home linux lan
I’ve just finished upgrading my sister’s pc, which we use to share a dial-up connection, to Mandrake 9.1. ( Yes-dialup, I’m 2 miles from AOL’s headquarters and the closest to broadband that I can get is wireless or satellite.) I can’t say that the install was a piece of cake – the installer crashed on
Arcade Cabinet Pictures
The arcade cabinet frame put together after the first weekend of cutting the panels and 2x2s. A peek through the door on the front at the PC powering the whole thing. Its my old Athlon-400 that got me through grad school. A look at the top half of the cabinet. I need to make a
Using syndication as content life support
Just a few weeks ago, I dedicated some time to updating and upgrading my bolivian soccer news site which I’d neglected since March. Well, back in March i decided to start scraping the news section from some fo the online, Bolivian newspapers and linking to the stories on the right. After my redesign, I checked
Choosing a Linux NIC
Interesting summary of what to look for in a linux NIC beyond the price is here. I wish I’d looked at that earlier. I’m currently installing Mandrake 9.1 on my sister’s PC. Because her CD drive wouldn’t read the Mandrake iso’s I’d burned, I ended up having to do a net install from my PC