Quote of the day – heard in the office on Sept 29th 2008

“Sometimes you got to get knocked down in order to get knocked up again” -  by Dylan on the state of the U.S. Economy.

5.8 Quake hits Los Angeles – Phone services dead, internet works

So much for a robust telephone (land and cell) infrustructure. 5.8 Earthquake hits, I’m 29 miles West of it at the office and I can’t get through to my family at home. Tried the regular phone line at the office… negative. Tried my cell phone with T-Mobile and no luck. Even tried the company issues [...]

Facebook Phishers

I knew it. I knew that all these recent “friend requests” on Facebook from people I completely don’t know are bogus. I received two requests within a couple of weeks from women I don’t know and have no common friends with. I then received another request from an Agent person in New York that has [...]

Firefox 3 set to be released on June 17th

Now that Firefox 3 has an official launch date of June 17th people all around the world are getting in line to download the newest edition of the Mozilla browser. A campaign has been launched by SpreadFireFox.com to set a Guiness World Record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours. Based on the turnout [...]

Plaxo – Review of new features

I was looking around Plaxo the other day and stumbled upon some new features that I hadn’t seen before. These are features that were newly added with the launch (beta) of Plaxo 3.0. You can read the full details on their Blog post “Introducing an All-New Plaxo”.

The functionality that I thought was a nice touch [...]

What to do with an old laptop that has a wacko LCD?

I have an HP ze5385us notebook whose LCD backlight went unreliable 1 month after the warranty expired. I’ve been tossing around ideas as to what to do with the notebook but have not settled on anything.
Originally I wanted to give the notebook to my wife so that she could use it for her own use [...]

Settled on a platform

After 3 false starts at converting from a .NET based platform to something else, I’ve finally settled on WordPress. I was originally working with WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. After letting the original 3 implementations sit idle on my dev server for 6 months I finally realized that Joomla and Drupal were overkill for what I [...]