JR did a nice job of describing how easy it was to install the security patch for Firefox, so I won’t try and repeat what he said, but I do have some additional comments. This is exciting. This is the way a browser should update. This changes a lot for Firefox. I don’t know how…
A rather interesting piece that I came across over the weekend over at Adam Barr’s blog has had me thinking quite a bit about the term IT Generalist and the “persona” created by Microsoft’s marketing department. The first thing that popped into my head after reading it, and all the comments, is that some of…
So you know how I setup a quick link blog using my bloglines subscriptions, right? There is one definite drawback, just using the one-click “Link blog this” on items in Bloglines creates a link not to the original item, but to the item in the feed that bloglines has pulled and left on their site….
As discussed in the comments, using Bloglines might be considered a better way to limit the bandwidth I use in checking on feeds, since it checks once an hour and shares the feed with all of the subscribers to that feed. So I decided to give it a try. It’s better than I thought it…
Some more discussion of the RSS “problem”, and the real answer to the problem, quit pulling feeds once an hour! Trust me, I update once, maybe twice a day, during the week and hardly at all on weekends. I’d be willing to bet most of the feeds you are subscribed to are similar. For more…
Asa, from mozilla.org sent me an email that both thanked me for linking to and talking about Firefox, and asked me to link to them using a button. I haven’t decided on whether I want to start the trend of using a lot of buttons to link to things, I already have enough issues with…