Online bookmarks are a Good Idea™. At least, so I’ve found, and plenty of other del.icio.us users seem to confirm the sentiment.
Del.icio.us does a great job of handling this task, and the newly minted Ma.gnolia seems poised to do a great job also; the problem is, at some point you really need to choose one or the other. There’s simply no point in keeping a list of bookmarks in two different locations; one or the other will wither into disuse (unless you have way too much time on your hands, in which case — more power to you).
So, let’s compare features:
Continue reading ‘del.icio.us versus Ma.gnolia’
If the site looks odd, (possibly even unreadable) that should be resolved shortly. I’m tweaking (read: changing) the CSS Yet Again, since I simply can’t leave well enough alone.
Edit: Well, I’m not totally happy with it, but my lunchtime is done, so I guess it will look like this until sometime tonight. I wanted a pretty different look, but I’m not sure this is exactly right. Not that anyone cares… ;-)
Yes, you read that correctly. The anti-spyware definitions as of 2/10/06 give a false positive detecting Symantec AV as PWS.Bancos.A Password Stealer… if you remove that (and who wouldn’t? That sounds like bad news!) then Symantec becomes inoperable, and the remaining AV process starts eating up close to 100% of your CPU resources.
Or, in a nutshell, Microsoft Anti-Spyware breaks Symantec AV.
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Num Sum is an online spreadsheet. It works well, and is shareable. I believe it’s been around for awhile, but I had no need for an online spreadsheet, so I’d never investigated further.
It just so happens that I recently developed an itch to do something like a spreadsheet, and keep it online so both my wife and I could access it; I was going to code up something very simple (just a private app, nothing complex) but I thought I’d check out the existing spreadsheet apps, which would also do what I needed.
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If you’re in the tech support business, you have really only one measurement to figure out whether you are succeeding or not — and it isn’t how many tickets you can close. After all, if you were to have no tickets called in, then you would close zero tickets… but you would be clearly succeeding, since no problems being called in would indicate that systems and network are all working spectacularly.
On the other hand, if you have a lot of tickets called in, but you solve them all in a reasonable time period, you’re also successful. Ticket count is not necessarily going to give you a good measure of how successful you are in the area of tech support.
The question you want to be asking is: Are my users able to get their work done?
Continue reading ‘The Work Matters’
The Gloose Control Center attempts to answer the question, What is Gloose?:
Gloose is International Search Engine and Web Directory - The world’s most powerful hybrid metasearch engine in any language.
* Gloose.com Search Engine uses an unique very fast metasearch algorithm. It queries simultaneously in several other search engines or parallel a few search engines and shows the first received search results as soon as possible and thus reaching fastest possible metasearch speed and returns their top results
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You may have noticed some bugs in your web 2.0 apps and sites. Web 2.0.1 is the patch you need.
Tragic domain names should serve as a reminder to us all; be careful when you choose that domian name. You don’t want your significant other asking why you were visiting “expert sex change”.com…
I was going to call this “Why I am a conservative,” but that seemed somewhat hackneyed. It’s a rant, and it’s been building for awhile. If politics (economics might be a more accurate topic, I suppose) is of no interest to you, you probably want to just skip it.
People talk a lot in the US about how it is a country divided; blue and red, left and right, never the twain shall meet, that sort of thing. For some reason, the depth of this difference of opinion is recently becoming more marked, to me.
The thing that stood out to me is the difference of opinion on who is stealing from whom.
Continue reading ‘Been caught stealing’
