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I never thought I’d say this but…
Aug 19th
I USE FIREFOX
I have officially migrated my primary web browsing to FireFox. I am one of the old salts on the internet and was using mosiac when it was first released from UIUC, then I started using netscape from "Mosaic Communications Corporation" before they changed their name to netscape. I didn't care for them converting netscape to a commercial product so when Microsoft released IE and it started to become the browser of all browsers, I switched to IE. I thought Netscape was on crack when they developed mozilla.org and the first mozillas were still slow and bloated and IE browsed circles around them. But now, after resisting and resisting waiting for the next "new and improved IE" and having the IE7 beta BLOW UP on me, I decided to 'test' firefox. Well it's funny. One of the things that made netscape superior to mosaic was that it loaded pages so much faster and soon mosaic was no longer the browser of choice, netscape was (even if it was a commercial software program). Eventually IE loaded pages so much faster than Netscape and netscape was no longer the browser of choice. Now comes FireFox and Firefox is without question the fastest browser I've ever used and with the number of extensions available for it I have some great features that even IE7 doesn't have. So I guess we've gone full circle returning to an open source browser once again. Interesting this technology of ours…
It’s been a full year and now a major change .. now blogging in WordPress
Aug 19th
I just realized that my blog has been active for over a year now. Can't believe I'm still blogging, I thought for sure I would have quit by now. Well after much research I've decided to migrate my blog from Community Server (a dot net based blogging application) to WordPress, a php and mysql blogging application. CommunityServer is a great application developed and backed by a commercial organization, unfortunately as a commercial organization they want to make more money and have released many add-ons as commercial plugins. Since this is a personal blog and I make no money from it, it doesn't make sense to purchase these add-ons. So I looked for an alternative and really wanted a dotnet based application but when it's all said and done, WordPress won. WordPress is written in PHP & MySQL and contrary to what the linux drones would have you believe PHP & MySQL run without flaw on Windows thanks to good developers and a little talent from the system administrators at AppliedI.net. One of the features I wanted from my blog was the ability to create blog entries via email, with community server you have to purchase this add-on, with wordpress, you have to simply enable it. I wanted a better theme system and with wordpress there are hundreds of freely and commercially available themes. With CS, it was a hard hunt. Finally, I just wanted a change. So here it is. I have to say wordpress was quite easy to get up and running and migrating from CS wasn't the easiest possible as I had to move each entry manually, but alas it's online.
There’s a new way to shop on the Internet
Apr 12th
It's at Jusmon's crazy online outlet mall: http://www.jusmon.com/. Great outlet products at 'outlet online' prices. Outlet online prices, what's that you say? Well, think about it. Online prices are generally less than retail right and outlet prices are generally less than regular prices right? So it would stand to reason that online outlet prices (TM) (and I'll coin the term) would be evenl less than regular online prices and FAR less than retail. So swing on by Jusmon's outlet mall and have a look.
No my blog is not in error!
Apr 7th
The error message in the entry below is not an actual error, It's simply a post to help explain a potential error.
