Latin (tem-pu̇s-ˈfü-git): Time Flies
Like anyone still needs a reason. Today, the helpful Microsoft updater offered to upgrade IE7 to IE8. Always a sucker for some new software and always forgetting the more that occasional pain associated with installing new software, we let it do it’s thing on the home computer. Not a good idea. After the update, IE8 Read More …
Goggle Reflections A little more Photoshop practice. The manipulation that you can do is quite surprising the first time you do it. Even though I knew what was going to happen, the first reflection in the goggles gave me quite a jolt. I hear the little inside voice say, “You’ve got to be kidding!”.
Since when did they start offering rewards? Group launches strategy to block Conficker worm from .ca domain CIRA said Tuesday that it is taking a number of steps to stop the Conficker worm, also known as the Downandup worm, from using the .ca domain to perform malicious actions on behalf of those who control it. Read More …
Phone, PDA, touch screen all in 1992! IBM Simon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The IBM Simon Personal Communicator was the first attempt to market a commercially viable smartphone and was a joint venture between IBM and BellSouth. Simon was first shown as a product concept in 1992[1] at COMDEX, the communications industry trade show Read More …
I saw this via Twitter to a fellow employee’s blog. It’s quite an interesting accumulation of facts. Then, the question gets asked, “What does it mean?”, but there are no answers.
The latest from Apple, you just have to have one of these. Be sure to watch it to the end. 😉 Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
Take the world by storm- bell.ca The new BlackBerry® Storm™, coming soon from Bell. The Storm — the first ever touch screen BlackBerry® smartphone — features a high resolution screen so you can surf the Internet in full HTML format. And, its 3.2 megapixel camera has built-in flash and autofocus capabilities so you can capture Read More …
You’ve probably seen this or heard of this Internet video phenomenon. The thing I didn’t know when I first saw it a couple of years ago, was that the music is TSO and they ROCK! After seeing them live last year in Fargo, I’m hooked and we’re going to the Winnipeg show on Nov. 3rd. Read More …
Ubiquity, was a hot recommendation from and internal IBM blogger that I followed up on. It certainly looks like it has great potential, so I’ll be trying it out and tracking it’s progress. Have a look. Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
en route to serving up my blog to twitter via twitterfeed, I succumbed to OpenID. Seems like a great idea and I hope more sites start using this kind of technology. I really have way to many userid/passwords already and anything that will simplify this plus increase security, I’m all for it.