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I would be a happy camper if/when this happens.

Talking on the phone - meh. Maybe 10% of what I would use it for. Killing time on the commute surfing Wikipedia 90%. Now, let’s talk bandwidth charges before I sign anything….

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So, after 11 intense weeks of class, I hang up the coding goggles for a bit, and check out my old haunts on the web. Lo and behold, there’s buzz about Flock again/still. I checked it out last year, but wasn’t quite sold. This time around, it makes sense

Visually and functionally, it reminds me of  Konqueror, which I like. What Konqueror does for files, Flock does for WEb 2.whatever content. FYI, Konqueror could be described as the Swiss Army knife of Linux apps. It’s not for for everybody, and it’s not what I’m raving about  at the moment, so I’ll shut up about it.

I’m thinking of Flock as a social web management application, rather than a generic browser. I’ve set up my fave feeds, enabled blogging, Facebooking, and Flickring.

So far, I like what I see.

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Tags: Flock, Facebook, Flickr, Konqueror, Web Tools, Blogging, Web Browser

The Spam Dance - Second in world wide popularity, right behind the Chicken Dance.

Today is a momentous occasion. My trusty Akimset spam filter has blocked 3000 instances of time wasting, bandwidth hogging garbage.

I think I’ll celebrate by taking a cocktail of cialis, oxycontin, and ritalin (all purchased at the lowest possible price, nad deliverd within 24 hours, naturally). This will help me get my head on straight and prepare me for buying foreign currency at below market rates. The profits from this, I will of course use for my much needed Florida state home insurance.

I love the delete key.

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With Quicktime release 7.2, my flash video support in Firefox became an on again - off again affair.
Vista is….well, everybody knows what’s what with that beast.

so often, new software seems like a marketing hook for a hardware upgrade, and that bugs me. My G4 lappie is just fine for what I need it for and until it starts belching smoke, I’m keeping it.

The long and short of it is that I figured it is time to hunt for an alternative OS.

I’m running a dual boot Osx 10.3.9/Ubuntu7.04 at the moment, but figured why stop there? From The Live Cd List, I link hopped into the outer realms of the open source solar system and found this ftp site: ftp.belnet.be

It is an absolute motherlode of open source distros.

If you can’t find an intriguing distro here, your name must be Bill….

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A few years back my inbox was inundated with golf jokes and fwd: material by recently retired relatives. I put forth a theory, half jokingly, that with the looming boomer retirement wave, these folks would cripple the internet with their social spam. Looks like xkcd has my back on this one:

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So, I caved in and joined facebook.

It took a couple of invites staring at me from my inbox, but I did it. As a technology, it intrigues me. I mean, who doesn’t enjoy a nice database?
I tried myspace and just didn’t have the patience.

Maybe this’ll be different.

Then again, it might be like maturity and responsibility and I’ll lose interest.

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Truemors, discovered via Fimoculous, looks kinda neat.

To be honest, rumours and gossip are of less than little interest to me. However, the inclusion of off line submission via SMS, voice, or e-mail is clever.

The comments on the Techrunch post are refreshingly honest and informative, as well as being relatively balanced between the pro/con factions.

It interests me as a platform more than an information source.

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