Almost everyone has heard of Mozilla. The Mozilla organization is the descendant of Netscape and is the producer of Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. One of the little known technologies behind the Mozilla products is called XUL (pronounced zool). XUL is a scripting language (and interpreter) that provides all the user interface for Firefox and…
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So almost everyone has seen the set of Apple commercials portraying a hip and friendly guy named Mac and a stuffy, geeky and very business oriented guy named Windows. Novell recently produced a few commercials adding a third individual. She is called Linux!
You know the saying… in order to make money, you have to have money. It refers mostly to making money in real estate and the stock market. But Japanese billionaire Genshiro Kawamoto sees it a little differently. He believes that you need money to help people.
Mempile, a company out of Israel wants to build a DVD that will hold one terabyte of data on a single disk. That’s the equivalent of 200 normal DVDs (not Dual-Layer, HD-DVD or Blue-ray). Wow! The technology is amazing and includes the use of “light sensitive molecules.” “…the technology allows for transparent layers where two…
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Some of you may remember a previous post on global warming. In recent weeks I’ve seen an enhanced interest in climate change and have experienced some additional arguments against the much trumpeted predicted catastrophic weather changes. Let me rephrase that… the weather changes could possibly be true, but the cause of these changes are far…
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Sometimes, incredibly profound things are said: When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. Now if we could just get the legislators to actually see this problem.
I’ve learned over the last several years that I’m more of an Independent than a Republican. I have almost always voted Republican based on moral issues, but in recent years I’ve watched the division of the American people become a drastic chasm with no apparent bridge in site. What has really frustrated me is that…
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I’ve never thought myself in need of The Seven Habits because I never saw myself in any type of management roll and assumed that it was specifically for business management. My new job is a much smaller company and there is more need for management at every level and so I decided to take the…
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Note: So after I finished Eragon, I grabbed a new book, and forgot to write this review. So it may be a little disjointed as my memory isn’t the type that can recall all parts of the story. Especially after a few weeks after the fact. Eragon is a wonderful book. I first saw the…
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So I’m a fan of Google (at least their online tools). I didn’t enjoy being partnered with them at my last job (they tend to push around the little guy). But their tools are unmatched and well done. The other day, I was looking to add new content to my personalized Google homepage when I…
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