Posted on April 29, 2009 by foggytown
As the media pounds the drums of fear regarding this latest outbreak of swine flu, and the right wing establishment uses it as an excuse to demand the closing of the border and further limiting legal immigration and even free passage, it is worth pointing out that this is just the flu. The US has [...]
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Posted on April 26, 2009 by foggytown
When I quit pirating (stealing) software, I needed a photo editor that was both full featured and cheap. Gone was Photoshop, and testing of others began. After trying virtually every editor out there, I settled on Corel Photo Paint. I bought version X, upgraded to X1, and then upgraded to X2.
I found the DRM distasteful, [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2009 by foggytown
When I say advice for Safari developers I mean Apple employees not web developers targeting Safari. As regular readers know, I’ve been somewhat tough on Safari since its release for Windows (see here and here for examples.)
With the release of version 4, Safari seems like much more of an option for Window’s users. It seems [...]
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Posted on April 10, 2009 by foggytown
Just a couple of brief things relating to Linux Mint 6 KDE CE and a new (to me) distro called moonOS.
Let’s start with Mint. On Wednesday, Linux Mint 6 KDE CE was released. Based on Ubuntu Intrepid and using KDE 4.2, I think that this is the first usable KDE 4.x distro to be released. Mint [...]
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Posted on April 7, 2009 by foggytown
…surely, it would be an Australian Cattle Dog.
MSNBC has an article about an ACD who fell off a sail boat, swam over 5 miles to an island, then survived for 4 months on its own before being captured and re-united with its owners. The dog went wild to survive, they called her vicious and ferocious; [...]
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Posted on April 5, 2009 by foggytown
I’ve been using Foxmarks for sync of my Firefox bookmarks for a few years, it has mostly worked well.
But as more modern browsers are released, and Firefox seems to be falling behind, I looked for other solutions. I’ve mostly been using IE8 lately, the Foxmarks beta for IE works, but it gives frequent errors. And [...]
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