We now have another web standards compliant option for browsing in Windows– Safari! And I like it, so far.
Apparently there was some bug infestation the first few days, so I waited a couple weeks after launch to download, and yes, there were some bugfixes since it was initially released. The specs require WinXP, but I’ve […]

Cringely has a great Microsnot Giggle over at InfoWorld. Read about the MS project that’s creating the Biggest Hole so far seen at Microsoft . . .
Technorati Tags: Hole Enchilada, Microsoft

Just got an email from IEntry with a great piece from one of my favorite writers there, Jason Lee Miller. He talks about the uproar over Google’s Street Views and its displaying of some things people might not want other people to see, as well as some reaction from folks on the web. “The street-level […]

Well, it’s now guaranteed that you’ll see ads in your rss reader wherever a site has used Feedburner for its feed. The monetizing of rss has stepped up a notch with Google’s acquisition of Feedburner.
I’m just glad I resisted the urge to switch my feeds over to Feedburner like all the Successful-Blog Tuesday night […]

According to the NY Times today, Google is lobbying the FCC to introduce web innovation into the incredibly IMPORTANT auction of UHF spectrum that is scheduled to take place in February of 2009. For why this Spectrum Auction will be a pivotal event in Internet History, for good or bad, please read Harold Feld’s Analysis […]

Congrats to the folks of SaveTheInternet.com for winning two Webby Awards– Best Activism Site, and Best Public Service Video, both under the People’s Voice Category.
In an ironic twist of fate, the sponsor for the People’s Voice Category of the Webby Awards is Verizon. Yes, that Verizon.
I can’t wait to read the Save The Internet […]

A friend sent this to me in email, and it was funny enough to share –
For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the
way computers have enhanced our lives, read on..
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Pricing on Domain names in the dot com and dot net tlds is going up, as we all predicted when ICANN settled its suit with Verisign. Because of the sweetheart settlement Verisign was handed by the US Government and ICANN, no regulatory oversight or approval of this increase is necessary. “The annual levy for ‘’.com’’ […]

I swear, the April Fool’s jokes are getting WAY out of hand. Every year this time a slew of spoofs hits the net. This year saw a spoof of a recall on the NVidea GEForce card most popular with Gamers, a Cellphone that gives new meaning to the term Reach out and Touch Someone, Mozilla […]

MIT Technology Today has posted part two of their look into where the future of the Web is headed.
The article goes into a lot more detail about how the Semantic Web allows researchers to build the tools that organize information that is currently unorganized, using Artificial Intelligence that can actually correlate bits and bobs of […]

After our interesting discussion yesterday about protecting the future of the Web, it’s kismet that I would run into this article from the MIT Technology Review that speculates the future of the web, aka Web 3.0, and the groundwork being done now by the transition to the Semantic Web.
The article posits that the Semantic Web […]

There’s a great post over at All things Daniel Haggard about the reason the powers that be are fighting so hard against Net Neutrality. To make a long story short– The internet is Changing The World.
These telecom companies are all preparing to evolve into media companies. What is a media company? It’s a company that […]

For all those who don’t know about the new crop of Gotcha’s that have been thrown against us hapless devs by your favorite demon and mine, Microsoft, the new version of Outlook (2007) will be rendering html email using the incredibly broken Word html rendering engine instead of the newly improved IE7 rendering engine. Which, […]

Liz, I did warn ya! A clock watcher I’m not . . .
For those of you who want to push your blogs to the next level, and you’re going to be in or near Chicago on the weekend of May 11-12, you might wanna check out the SOBCon ‘07. It starts on Friday, May 11 […]

Since I had to move my other domains off below10host when they started to majorly screw with mod_security settings in a way that was so detrimental that my sites were breaking all over the place, and since hostgator, their replacement, had a little problem with double billing, I ended up on MediaTemple’s grid server, hearing […]