I’m a firm believer that somewhere deep inside the bowels of Windows is a great operating system waiting to be discovered. It just takes a little poking and prodding around to get a pretty rewarding experience out of this aging system, but once you do, you’ll find this old dog was able to do a [...]

Filed under: technology on July 28th, 2006 | No Comments »

We all know by now the internet’s not a truck, it’s a series of tubes. And it appears that Flickr has got its tubes chock full of material right now. Flickr has a knack for humorous error messages, and for its largest site outage in a long time, they’ve decided to give users something to [...]

Filed under: humor, news, technology on July 19th, 2006 | No Comments »

Can you build a brand or forge an identity across many disjointed pieces of content and references across the Internet?
Anyone for whom the Internet has been a major part of life over the years surely has numerous posts and references immortalized throughout the Internet, and yet, what good is any of it if you can’t [...]

Filed under: technology, thoughts on July 14th, 2006 | No Comments »

Burning posted in my Flickr photostream.

Filed under: photography on July 8th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

Apparently, I wasn’t the only one who noticed that Internet Explorer Betas 1 and 2 were using a favorites icon which flat-out rips off Flock’s Flockater icon. I downloaded Internet Exlporer 7 Beta 3 last night and this icon was nowhere to be seen.

Filed under: business, technology on July 6th, 2006 | 2 Comments »

If we stop circulating the penny (as discussed in this news story)we can expect merchants to round-up their prices. Yes, proponents claim otherwise, but history does not agree.
After the introduction of the Euro currency, it was commonplace for merchants in Euro area countries to round-up their prices across the board to retain “attractive” numbers such [...]

Filed under: business on July 2nd, 2006 | No Comments »