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Many times before I’ve expressed how impressed I am with the Ubuntu distribution(s), and how well they’ve accomplished making an easy to use, fairly slim, Linux distro. Back in my first dealings with Linux, I was always hopping from distro to distro to find one that annoyed me the least. Eventually I had [...]

Blatantly copied from Browser Wars Declared Over? on Slashdot:
Luke Spyglass: “You fought in the browser wars?”
NCSA Mosaic: “I was once a web browser the same as your father.”
Luke Spyglass: “My father didn’t browse the web. He was a finger server at the community college.”
NCSA Mosaic: “That’s what your Uncle told you. He didn’t hold with [...]

I have mentioned in the past how impressed I am with Google Docs. Well, just yesterday they announced an addition to the Google Docs family: Presentations. While the post doesn’t go into much detail, you can find out more on the Google Blog:
Well, we tried to keep it a secret as long [...]

While getting ready for my incredibly early morning, I double checked my email and saw a message from my Wordpress blog that I hadn’t seen in a long time: A comment moderation notice. I actually figured it was a real comment, however my enthusiasm was quickly curbed when went to moderate the command [...]

A friend of mine just posted a couple of great blog articles about the things he has learned, and the things he loves, about the perl scripting language:
By The Grace Of Perl
…First, the map function is the best example of simplicity. Here is an example of some code that just makes map the absolute [...]

I can’t exactly place why this annoys me so much, but when ever I see themes where the banner takes up a significant part of the web page, I feel like they are purposefully making me have to do more to see the rest of the content that I have come to see.

Admittedly, my theme [...]

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana