A simple database

Friday, April 1st, 2005

I really like Gmail. One year ago today, in what many thought at the time was an April Fools joke, Google announced an email service with a gigabyte of storage and the search capabilities of Google built right in. They chose to grow the service gradually by making it invite only. I was lucky enough [...]

A day of links

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

Consumer Reports: Complaint Rates for Cellular Providers The Best of Photojournalism 2005 Apple’s OS X 10.4 Tiger available for pre-order The Mobile Music Blog Oh No! TiVo tests pop up ads What’s Next For Apple? A fantastic show of live acoustic music from Nugs.net Robert “Douchebag of Freedom” Novak says we’re pulling out of Iraq [...]

We’ve reclaimed ‘Geek’

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005

Approximately 38% of the time when my phone rings it’s someone asking for help with their computer or other personal electronic device. This is actually a trend that began before college when my grandfather – a man who worked for alternatively Hewlett Packard, Hughes, and NASA – began deferring to me for computer advice. Sometimes [...]

Firefox on the Mountain

Friday, March 18th, 2005

Recently I’ve been telling everyone who will listen that they need to stop using Internet Explorer and get on the Mozilla Firefox bandwagon. Besides better security, rendering speeds, and features like Tabbed Browsing and Live Bookmarks, Firefox also offers Extensions which just make everything great. Here are the ones I can’t live without. AdBlock – [...]