Category: Internet

  • My History with Browsers Part 2: Opera

    My excitement over Flock has faded a bit. It’s a bit bloated. I understand, because of the software involved in Flock’s features, why Flickr is so slow. However, Flickr is one of the sites I visit more often than any other, so I need it to go fast. Right now I have to load up…

  • My History with Browsers Part 1: A History Lesson of Sorts

    At first I used Internet Explorer because we had a free trial of MSN.  Then we switched to MCI, who used Netscape (although you could also use IE) and I mostly used Netscape.  I think this was around Netscape 4 or 5.  I really liked Netscape A LOT and used it almost to the exclusivity…

  • Hacking Flickr

    So, thanks to a problem I had with rigging up Nick in “Sugar“, I’ve temporarily lost interest in animation.  This happens to me all the time, and I think I’ve mentioned it before in previous blog posts that I’m too lazy to look up before that I tend to gain and lose interest in my…

  • GPL shows benefits in unexpected places!

    When most people think of the GPL, if they think of it at all, they tend to think of Linux and perhaps other operating systems.  However, there are many benefits to using the GPL for programs on a smaller level.   For example there is a Go Application in Facebook.  This programmer could have gone…

  • Charitable Donations for 2008

    This year I decided to mainly support technological causes.  I donated to the Free Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.  I think that rms and the rest over at the FSF are really doing a lot of great work to preserve our freedoms.  I especially like the Defective by Design campaign they’ve been running. …

  • How Facebook will look in 30 years

    The jokesters over at Johncow.us let us know: (click the image for a full-size version)

  • Social Web Part 2: Mugshot

    Mugshot is the website that continues to surprise me the more I use it.  At first it was just a website with an unusual purple theme.  Then it was the very frustrating site with the purple theme.  Now it just may be one of the most interesting and underrated sites of the year. In case…

  • How Flock has completely changed my browsing habits

    Flock has completely changed how I interact with the so-called Social Web.  In my case, that means Facebook and Flickr.  Ever since I first started using Flock and received the help I needed to get the blogging to work, I’ve been using it every day.  In fact, that only thing that has kept me from…

  • Flock Blogging now works for me!

    Many many thanks to Flock engineers Erwan Loisant, Mike Dosik, and Patricia Bacon.  They took time with me over the past few days to get my problem debugged and now categories worked.  Here are the details in case you find yourself in my situation. First of all, once they told me that it worked on…

  • Style

    I’m going to see if I can fix up my blog’s style so that it’s not so narrow because, otherwise, I’ve grown to like this theme. So if the blog looks a little messed up for a little while it’s because I’m editing the style sheet.

  • Further Review of Flock 0.9

    So I’m using Flock daily now for my web browsing to see how I like it. Since I don’t usually go to Facebook on my own, it’s nice to see the notifications within Flock. Thus, I’ve been more responsive to my Facebook private messages, a good thing since my second-cousin recently caught up with me…

  • Flock 0.9

    (just so you know, you should be able to click on most of the screenshots to see them more clearly) Earlier this year, I took a look at flock. It didn’t impress me. In fact, I found it so useless to my browsing habits that I didn’t even bother to review it. I neglected to…

  • test post with flock 0.9

    This is a test post for a blog post I’m writing about flock 0.9.  It should appear in the next 30 minutes or so after I finish up.   This is bold, underlined, and italics.  This is bulleted and this is numbered also, it should be tagged “flock” Blogged with Flock Tags: flock

  • HEY RIAA, all you needed to do was offer DRM-free music!

    I’ve already spent around $11 on Amazon.com’s MP3 download store. Why? Because they are selling MP3s of my favorite artists without any digital restrictions management (DRM). This is what has been keeping both my wife and I away from iTunes. Oh yeah, and the songs are cheaper than iTunes! It appears that all of the…

  • The Nigerian Scam goes Togo!

    Got the following email yesterday from a desmond1.100@hotmail.com: Dear Friend, Better days greetings to you and your entire family and i pray that may the almighty lord guard you and your family. In our search for a trustworthy individual to work with us on a very important and confidential project, we came across your esteemed…