Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
With all the holes and security problems found in Internet Explorer lately, people have been looking for alternatives. Wired has an article on alternatives to IE. PC Magazine also chimes in. Personally, I use Mozilla Firefox.
You can enhance Firefox by installing extensions to add new features.…
Here is another post of interesting but mostly unrelated things. First off is Serenity, the web site of the big screen sequel to Firefly, Joss Whedon’s cancelled sci-fi/western series. I own Firefly – The Complete Series, on DVD and am really looking forward to the movie.…
I have been engaged for one week. I asked Stephanie to marry me last week. We were camping with the John 23rd young adults group at Fall Creek Falls State Park. The wedding date is Friday, June 10, 2005.
In other news I’m headed back to Knoxville next month, but first Stephanie and I are headed to Arkansas to see her parents.…
This article from the BBC says that satellite imagery has revealed the location of Atlantis. Nope, Atlantis is located in the Pegasus galaxy and can only be reached via a one way stargate trip.
But just in case Atlantis really is on this planet and near water, you can sneak up on it in a stealth ship.…
I haven’t blogged at all this month, I’ve been pretty busy. But a friend sent this link to me and I thought it was pretty funny. It kinda boils Bush vs. Kerry down to its essence.
Update July 20: The original site is down, view “This Land” at AtomFilms.…
SETI@home is transitioning to BOINC. Last month I mentioned BOINC and how you could run several projects with one client. SETI’s client was getting a little long in the tooth, and BOINC lets new calculations be done on the data without totally rewriting the client.…
Here are lots of mostly unrelated things I have found recently that I thought were interesting. A site explaining the history of Moof the Dogcow, a little image used by some programs to show page orientation for printers. This is a site about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide, (H20).…
Slashdot is reporting, from various sources, that work on Internet Explorer has been restarted. I think Windows Longhorn is going to take longer than expected and Microsoft realized they can’t let their web browser stagnate that long.…
Well actually, I’ve got Gmail. librarymonk@gmail.com to exact. Gmail is Google’s new webmail service, currently in a closed beta test. What makes Gmail special is spam filtering, a fast interface, and oh yeah 1 gigabyte of storage space. Feel free to sent me email at this address, it’s not like I’m in danger of maxing out my storage quota anytime soon.…
New licences have been announced for Movable Type. The biggest change is a new Unlimited Personal Edition for $99.95. It allows “for an unlimited number of authors and weblogs for personal use”. This is really what people wanted, and why there where huge complaints about the new licence.…