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Fedora 7

Fedora 7 is out now, Fedora 5 just went into unspported mode, and it’s time to start rolling the Fedora 6 systems on to Fedora 7. For those how might not know about Fedora:
The Fedora Project is a collection of projects sponsored by Red Hat (http://redhat.com) and developed as a partnership between the [...]

Am I too old for an iPhone?

The iPhone me feel very unhip. What I really want is a phone that has enough volume so I can hear who I’m talking to as I walk down the street and a noise canceling system so street noises are filtered out for the person listening on the other end. Thin enough [...]

Project Honeypot and Comment Spam

I’ve been using Akismet on this blog to filter out comment spam. So far, it’s filtered over 24,500 fake comments, over 100 on the typical day. I recently installed another anti-spam plugin, httpBL, which compares the IP address of the commenter with Project Honeypot’s database of spammers and spam harvesters. It’s been in [...]

SEO optimization

Uberdose’s All In One SEO Pack for Wordpress not only limits the indexing to the “real” entries, but creates all the necessary meta tags to make that listing fruitful.

Going to Realcomm?

Going to Realcomm? I’ll be at the CIO panel and OSCRE meetings.
Realcomm 2007
REmagination - New Technology, New Ideas, New Times!
June 3-5, Hynes Convention Center, Boston
For 2 1/2 dynamic days, real estate leaders from around the globe will discuss and debate the toughest challenges facing the commercial and corporate real estate industries and [...]

Remembering Hard Drives

Matt, the WordPress Wizard, reports on using a 32GB flash drive as his hard disk and installing Vista.

Best Computer Wallpaper Site, Ever

Get your computer wallpaper from NASA’s Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD) site.

One gMail to Rule Them

The Technology Evangelist asks “Why Use Marginal Email Programs When You Can Use Gmail?” He has excellent reasons, especially
4. Threaded conversations: The next time you find yourself in a long conversation back and forth with a zillion people copied on each email where before long, the entire first page of your inbox is [...]

Why wait for Vista: Cool Firefox plugin

If Vista’s flipping and flopping windows has your heart a-flutter but you don’t have the video card for it, check out the Tab Effect plugin for Firefox. (Unfortunately, it only works with FF on Windows.)
Listen to this post Firefox

Technology and Good Eats

The Thermapen is an outright necessity for anyone cooking meat. This will let you deliver meat that is consistently right where want it to be. (Take beef off the heat at 125 and let it rest 15 minutes to hit medium rare, every time.) It’s expensive, but you won’t have to chow [...]