Among The Jumbled Heap

WordPress Upgrade

Hurrah! I have upgraded to WordPress 2.7 . I've also installed WP2.7 on my local machine with the help of XAMPP and intend to build my own theme as soon as time is available...which is rarely. I'm tired of the damned red, white, and blue.

Free Stuff!!

PC Magazine has a list of recommended free software. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2271644,00.asp It's freeware, but not necessarily Open Source. I would not have picked all the things they pick. I especially hate the Google Toolbar. I've found it to be clunky. It takes up too much memory, slows things down, and is always, ALWAYS, collecting information about how you behave online. That's the part I hate the most about it. I intend to check out the Maxthon browser right away ...

Be Kind Rewind

Are you the Key Holder or the Gate Master? --Wilson in Be Kind Rewind Critics of Be Kind Rewind range from tepid to hostile. Those critics who enjoy the film label it as "cute,""goofy and endearing," or "a heart-warming story." Those who hate it scream "undeveloped," "ameteurish," or "a thick stew of awful" (see Rotten Tomatoes). Many of the critics----both pro and con----refer to the story as "fairy tale." The far-fetched narrative, the flat, nearly caricatured, characters, the si...

The Year of Open Source

This is my year of OpenSource. Since last December, I have: installed Ubuntu on my Desktop, reconfigured my wife's laptop to dual-boot MS-Windows XP and Open Suse, reconfigured my mp3 player (a Sansa Sandisk 250) to run RockBox, initiated a web project at work that uses the Joomla CMS played around with Django, a web-development platform that uses Python set all the library computers up with Firefox, and recently created what my coworkers are calling the "Ubuntu Lounge", a com...