The SpreadFirefox site has just announced that they've passed 20 Million downloads since November 9th. I know I'm one of them and I hope my site's button has helped a tiny bit. It feels good to know that a much better alternative to Internet Explorer is available and people are actually trying it out. Awesome!
January 2005 Archives
I got my copy of the new iLife '05 from Apple on Friday. I installed it after work and I'm highly impressed by the new features and the new things it lets me do. iMovie is especially nice and the program I've used the most since Friday. iMovie in general really makes it easy to move DV video onto DVD with full editing, effects etc and finishing it off in iDVD. I can't make a proper comparison though because I've never used any video editing software on a Windows PC before. Take that for whatever it's worth to you. I hope to dig into iPhoto more this week.
iDVD is also nice, lots of new menu themes and things like that.
I am SO glad it's Friday. Being off for a couple days is always nice in my book, escpecially when I'm not on call :)
In other news, at lunch today I went with some coworkers and a former employer of mine, Steve. I had talked to him a while back about wanting to take a trip to Japan at some point in the future. Well, since then he's bought a set of language tapes to freshen up on his Japanese that he hasn't used much in many years. Anyway, he was wondering when we're going. I'm not really ready but I'm not going to miss the opportunity to go to Japan with friends, escpecially one who can do the language. Hopefully we can get a time frame sooner rather than later so I can be sure I'm prepared in time.
Also, I need to get a Passport. Will have to look into that ASAP. Like right after I finish this post.
We are currently in need of rebuilding our backup server here. We have six 200GB hard drives in a hardware RAID array that we do all our backups too and then it backs up off to Ultrium tape. I have sitting here six brand new Hitachi 400GB Drives that I need to upgrade it to. It's not been easy to figure out the best and/or easiest way to do it but we've decided on a solution. Now it's getting it ready for the upgrade. I was going to try today but now I'm not sure I'll have time. We'll see
OK, it's official. Awesome new products available from Apple have been announced and start shipping soon. The new Mac Mini, iPod Shuffle, iLife 05 and iWork.
iLife 05 and iWork for sure caught my eye and I'd order them in a second if I had the funds. That will have to wait for payday I guess :)
The new Mac Mini starts at only $499! It's just the computer, have to have your own monitor, keyboard mouse etc but wow!
Check it all out at the links above and share your thoughts.
Was browsing the latest Internet rumors on Snopes and came across this one about an anti-seatbelt advocate who died in a car crash who likely would have lived if he'd been wearing his seatbelt.
I suppose I feel sorry for him but he should have been wearing a seatbelt. I know in my vehicle people wear their seatbelts or they can walk.
It's late, going to bed nowI've been working on getting a workin bugzilla server running now for a while. I downloaded the Fedora Core 3 from Redhat because I figured it really needed a Linux platform to work right. Went through three PCs trying to get a working Fedora and once I got a machine working, I did all the installation stuff for Bugzilla which all worked great. However, I can't access it at all. I get access denied and nobody has been able to help me so far.
However, I'm starting anew on a Windows platform and we'll see if that works better today.
First thing that I saw wrong today when I got to work was that our Internet was down. Firewall was OK but I hoofed it to the server room to check the router and met up with my coworker who had just barely fixed it. Everything good now! :)
GM has started a new series of blogs from corporate leaders they're calling FastLane. Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has the first entries. Check it out if you're interested in such things.
Came across a blog entry from a gentleman who was fired for blogging. Supposedly for “divulging company secrets in a public space". You can check out the link for the full story.
However, it makes me wonder what the "official" policy is where I work? I rarely talk about work and we're a pretty close-knit department, I'll have to ask the boss about that...
I don't have a clue how one goes about taking pictures like this but it really looks pretty cool. It's all himself, not multiple actual people.
Excellent news for fans of the show from TechTV called 'Call for Help'. It is now returning to Australian airwaves, it has already been airing in Canada and now we just need to get it back in the States so it's biggest fans can enjoy it again. Leo Laporte also is hosting it again in case you didn't know previous. All good news in my book. Will keep an eye on it for when they decide to air in the US again. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
As of right now all entries from Blogger are imported. I havent' had time yet though to correct allt he categories. So right now they're all just in the Blogger category till I go through them all and change them.
Woke up this morning. Looked outside. There was snow on the ground, just a little bit more than we already had when I went to bed though. I took a couple snapshots because the snowplows left me a nice hill to back out through and I have no snow shovel right now. *sigh*
It was a little funny though, after backing out of the driveway, it's a slight incline up my street and the car wouldn't go. Just sat there not going anywhere :)
I had to back up, turn around and go down a different street, hehe. On my way to work the stupidity of Man never ceases to amaze me. I was driving along on a little winding road, going a crisp 25 mph when this moron in a blue chevy comes barrelling up behind me going way too fast just before the street starts going downhill to where you have to stop to get on the highway. He was really pissing me off, I didn't feel like being hit so I slowed way down, waved him on to pass. Let him push somebody else out in front of a semi on the highway. The rest of my journey to work was uneventful.
However, I just got off the phone with my mother who is wanting me to take her to lunch, so that means driving in this stuff again but the roads should be much better. TTFN!
A coworker of mine just dropped of Lasagna for me at home. A couple weeks ago I went to his house and setup his wireless network and he felt this would be a good payment for that. I agree! It looks delicous and can't wait to dive in.
There is a pretty big storm here where I live. Looks like it could get nasty. Accuweather says "Heavy snow tonight" and we've already have heavy snow so far today. It's been a while since we've had much of a snow storm here.
As of today all entries will be in the new MovableType blogging system. I will maintain an archive at http://blogger.mrdigital.net until I either figure out how to import everything or decide I don't like MT and go back to Blogger :)
I hope everybody is having an awesome new year so far.
