Monthly Archives: March 2005

This isn't good

The past few months my laptop’s fan has been making a loud vibrating noise. Seeing how the fan seemed to be working fine as well as everything looking ok from what I could see inside the laptop, I didn’t do … Continue reading

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Zombie computers

Neil has a good breakdown on what needs to be done to stop a growing epidemic in the computer world: zombie computers. All of his suggestions are great, but I think he left out a few things: I would these … Continue reading

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Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 out

Mozilla Thunderbird, the best pure e-mail client out there, has a new version out. The release notes state that this release has stability improvements and security fixes. I have just installed it on my computer and so far everything went … Continue reading

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Slashdot Armageddon

Apparently there is a serious effort to convert Slashdot to a XHTML + CSS-based layout (via Neil). Talk about the end of the world! Wonder what will be completed first…Duke Nukem or Slashdot (XHTML/CSS Edition)?

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Flickr bought by Yahoo

Flickr has been bought by Yahoo. Sounds very interesting. I like Flickr a lot for my limited tryout of their free account, but I never went to pay for the Pro account. Interested to see what improvements Yahoo does to … Continue reading

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Nifty corners

Neat way to do rounded corners on a web site (via Photo Matt).

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Wireless security tips

Best article I have found online on wireless network security and what is the best way to set things up.

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Beyond belief

I never knew the police technically can’t enforce a restraining order. What is the point of taking one out if it can’t be enforced? Let’s hope the Supreme Court fixes that issue. What a sad story.

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Why not us too?

Except for a brief resergence around 2001-2002, the Boston Celtics have been pretty much out of the picture in the Boston sports scene since the end of the Larry Bird era. I watched a lot of games during those years, … Continue reading

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Firefox TV ad

Eric Edwards, a student at the Savannah College of Art and Design, has created a cool TV ad for Mozilla Firefox. He is going to enter the ad into an Adobe design contest. Pretty cool stuff! Thanks to Gerv for … Continue reading

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