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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It was late Wednesday afternoon when it happened. My ‘to-do” list was long, time was short, and my computer unexpectedly died. There was a puff of smoke, and everything went black, and that was the end of it. Honestly, [...]

You may have heard of the “semantic web”… it’s a method of classifying information on the web, usually via human supplied tags, in order to help make pages and posts easier to find. Today found True Knowledge, a UK startup that is creating a smarter search engine.
For example, if you were to ask Google, “how [...]

Cheese has always been a bit of a Christmas tradition in our family. That, and 12 year old Scotch Whiskey. So I thought that this year, instead of hunting around for that last cheese basket at the back of the store shelf, I would try and find a “Cheese of the Month Club” that I [...]

I’ve been playing with an online tv viewer called miro. Now to be fair, I honestly thought that watching tv online would subject me to a ton of YouTube style junk, but this could not be further from the truth. Miro is a free, open-source media player that has over 2600 channels available for your [...]

My grandfather passed away recently, aged 102 years old. His passing, as is the way of all passings, caused me to stop and think. As I contemplate his life, and especially his last few years, I find myself asking what legacy will I leave for my family? How will I be remembered? Will I be [...]

Turn on the news these days and you are likely to see anti-war protests, anti-globalism marches, and anti-bush demonstrations. In fact, if there is a cause to be had, there is likely to be an anti-movement of some sort to “fight the injustice, tyranny, (insert descriptive here)”. The thing that gets me about all these [...]

News.com is reporting that Netscape will be pulling the plug on it’s own Digg clone. On Netscape’s own blog, the stated reason for the shutdown is, “…we specifically heard that our users do have a desire for a social news experience, but simply didn’t expect to find it on Netscape.com.” Netscape is apparently returning to [...]

Just a quick note: I found this excellent little online utility called the Wordpress Theme Generator that allows you to rapidly create a custom theme for your wordpress powered blog, without any knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP, or any other variety of alphabet soup. Playing around with it was fun, fast and easy. I created [...]

Well, the Thirty Day Challenge is over, except that it isn’t. For anyone interested, you can go to the site, sign up, and take the Challenge during September. Or October. Or whenever you feel like it, actually. For those of us who did it in August, the Challenge continues in two ways. First, there will [...]

I have been falling further behind with my thirty day challenge materials, my best efforts to keep up to date waylaid by an insidious stream of diversions, distractions, and distressing detours. But that’s ok, because I work from home, and can make it up whenever I feel like it, right?
That’s exactly what I was doing [...]