http://idude.org My opinions, beliefs and other miscellaneous poooo... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:47:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am writing this post as a test of the Microsoft Live Writer software.  It installed quickly and easily and detected my blog settings without issue. I’m most curious to see how well it handles images and markup.  So I am going to insert some crap below. ... http://idude.org/2008/11/19/microsoft-live-writer-beta/ I posted a lot of posts earlier this summer about my debacle at Mosso which caused me to jump ship and switch my sites over to Slicehost...   Lo and behold, Mosso buys my new provider... *sigh*...  Can't get away! :-) From talking to a few Slicehost guys in their chat, they ... http://idude.org/2008/10/22/mosso-rackspace-acquires-slicehost/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go[/youtube] http://idude.org/2008/10/08/achmed-the-terrorist/ Co-worker showed me this... Funny stuff... [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-22EpQOm8c[/youtube] http://idude.org/2008/09/26/pc-vs-mac-vs-linux/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4fe9GlWS8[/youtube] http://idude.org/2008/09/17/support-the-fight-for-freedom/ Google released their new Chrome web browser shortly before the end of a video announcement about it at 11am PST.  I had the download page ready at the beginning of the video (http://www.google.com/chrome) and was only getting a "404 - not found" error.  At around 11:45a I hit refresh on ... http://idude.org/2008/09/02/googles-new-chrome-browser-released/ Later today Google is expected to release a new web browser based on Webkit (what Safari uses) and Firefox.   I feel that it will be a welcome addition to the browser wars. I used Firefox, but have notice a lot more browser crashes with 3.x than previous versions and it feels ... http://idude.org/2008/09/02/new-google-chrome-browser/ Sarah Palin is the best choice McCain has made. I'm not huge fan of McCain and have nothing in my mind for the Obama/Biden ticket, but Sarah Palin, I think, will take McCain over the top for the republican campaign. I'll have to be honest, I had only heard a ... http://idude.org/2008/08/29/mccain-chooses-sarah-palin-for-vp-running-mate/ Gotta love FoxNews! [caption id="attachment_325" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Mystery Science DNC 2008"][/caption] I love this Internet streaming that FoxNews is doing during the DNC and can't wait for the RNC version of it. Keep it up Fox! (And Shep, your commentary is priceless!) http://www.foxnews.com/video2/live.html http://idude.org/2008/08/27/mystery-science-dnc/ What a complainer... Sure, there are going to be bugs, lots of them sometimes in the case of a new product of this type... People should almost expect them. We all knew it was coming, it was just a matter of time. A lawsuit has been filed against Apple over what ... http://idude.org/2008/08/21/iphone-class-action-suit/