Archive for March 2005
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DDR Crazed
March 31st, 2005 |The DDR craze has arrived in my household. The kids’ uncle loaned them a PS2 and we’re kickin’ our heels with Dance Dance Revolution. DDR Extreme 2 is great. We wanted to get another to have more song choices, so I shlepped to a few stores and only one was available—DDR Max. I’m disappointed in [...]
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Spell and Grammar Checkers
March 30th, 2005 |Whoa, dude! I had no idea that we couldn’t rely on Microsoft Word to take care of the grammar and spelling problems for us. Oh man, all those yours, you’res, theres, and theirs have been wrong all this time. Theirs know substitute for people editing. I use the checker to catch obvious things, but not [...]
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Energy Boost Needed
March 29th, 2005 |I’ve returned full-time in my day job. The only problem I am having with the adjustment is extreme fatigue. I’ve been exercising, watching what I eat, ensuring I get the needed sleep, and taking vitamins. But I continue to trudge along and fall asleep whenever my body gets the opportunity (like resting on the sofa [...]
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Work Has No Meaning
March 28th, 2005 |We’re doing more with less. It’s a phrase that won’t go away and we have to accept it. Many are stuck in jobs longer than they wish because of the economy and highly competitive job market. It’s not surprising if many are at the point where they’re sleepwalking while working. In Part I of Work [...]
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Yahoo Ups Storage
March 23rd, 2005 |Users of Yahoo’s free email will soon receive one gig of storage, four times more than the current 250 megs. This move helps Yahoo! match up with its competitor—Google’s Gmail. SBC Yahoo customers will get two gigs of storage beginning in May. Two gigs equals “enough to hold up to 22 million pages of email, more [...]
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Adobe Reader for Palm
March 22nd, 2005 |I’ve used Adobe Reader for Palm for the last few years. But it doesn’t work well anymore. Whenever I try loading a PDF file to read on my Palm, it errors most of the time. I’ve been to the discussion forums and have yet to find an answer that works or others have asked the [...]
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Trust
March 21st, 2005 |How many times have you heard someone say, “Trust me”? Those are empty words unless the person has proven trustworthy through past actions. When you get a newsletter from the first time, it’s rarely possible to decide whether or not you want to continue receiving it. If it’s a bad issue—well, everyone has off days. [...]
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Spyware Comes from Blogs
March 21st, 2005 |Sadly, spyware distributors have found another way to infilitrate computers through what people perceive as a safe environment—blogs. You won’t get any from this one. It comes through bloggers downloading free music and media for visitors to their blogs to download. Another way spyware makes its appearance is through pop ups. Dodge these pop ups [...]
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Sapphire Intrigue
March 20th, 2005 |Sapphire Intrigue is a new blog with writings and poems. So far, three intruiging entries have been posted. Ms. Jones said she would like honest feedback. No, it’s not me.
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Acid2, WaSP, and Microsoft
March 17th, 2005 |CTO of Opera Software and father of CSS, Håkon Wium Lie, has publicly announced a challenge to Microsoft through a test suit known as Acid2. Lie and the Web Standards Project are developing a test page that uses features such as fixed positioning of elements. The purpose of this effort is to encourage Microsoft to [...]
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