Lead, Follow, or Get Off the Internet

First things first: I was at WordCamp Kansas City this weekend where I listened to several very good presentations, and gave two presentations myself. I was generally very pleased with the developer track, which was where I lived. Without a doubt the worst presentation in the developer track all weekend was mine on widgets. Not [...]

Chrome OS First Impressions

My family has spent a couple of evenings now with our Chrome OS notebook (CR-48), so it’s probably time to give some first impressions.

Merry Christmas to Me: Google Ships Me a CR-48 Chrome Notebook

My first impressions about the CR-48 Chrome Notebook from Google.

Here's a Nerd Word Everyone Should Know: FUD

A quick examination of the acronym FUD and what it means to you.

Canon: Get Your Linux Drivers Done… For Free

An open letter to Canon and other hardware manufacturers about getting their Linux drivers done for free.

A Free Idea for the Folks at Pandora

I would like to see Pandora integrated with a lyrics engine.  Most people are probably going to think of some link in the user interface where they can click it and see the lyrics for the song.  Not me.  I want something much bigger. I want the ability to exclude a song based on a [...]

Kubuntu 8.10 is Official: Color Me "Meh"

I don’t personally know many people who are bigger fans or proponents of KDE than I am.  I think it’s fantastic.  I love just about everything about it. Except KDE 4.  It’s just not that exciting to me.  The new features aren’t that important to me and as a whole the desktop performs rather pitifully [...]

Far Future Expiration and File Versioning: Change the File Name or Add a Query String?

If you’re wondering what far future expiration is then odds are you haven’t spent much time looking into web delivery best practices.  Take a moment and read up.  I promise it won’t hurt and it will probably do you a lot of good. We’ll use this blog as an example.  It has a total of [...]

No BS: Which Software Licensing Model Leads to the Most Secure Software?

We’ve all read the comments and seen the posts.  “Open Source software isn’t secure.”  While that may be true, I’d like to revise that statement by removing two words: “Software isn’t secure.” The licensing model of a piece of software will have almost no effect on the quality of that software in the early stages.  [...]

Some Thoughts On Internet Explorer 6

I have a serious question for the 10% of you who visit this site and are still running IE 6.  I’m not trying to mock anyone, nor pass judgment.  I’m simply curious. Why are you still using IE 6? I get that about half of you seem to be running Windows 2000, so IE 7 [...]