IM Alternatives

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

I’ve been using Trillian on my PCs for about three years now. I started cleaning up my contact lists across the different IM protocols and realized one of my biggest pet peeves: contact grouping. Contact grouping is local to the computer; they are not synced with the protocol servers.
I use Adium on my [...]

Goodbye Mozilla Thunderbird. Hello Apple Mail.

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

I was an early adopter of Mozilla Thunderbird for many reasons - but mainly due to Microsoft Outlook’s miserable and pathetic handling of the IMAP protocol. While I continue using Thunderbird on my Sony VAIO (Windows XP) laptop, I have transitioned to Apple Mail on my PowerBook.
Why?
Apple is Apple. Apple has style and [...]

American Idol Simpsons Style

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

This clip from Idol Gives Back always makes me laugh.

Classic American Idol

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

American Idol did it again.
Towards the end of the broadcast, the traditional recap of performances was shown. The funny thing is that the recap of Jordin’s last performance wasn’t really a replay of her last performance.
Got that? American Idol must have pre-recorded the recaps or something.
It was obvious since Jordin was in tears at [...]

Web 2.Oops

Monday, May 7th, 2007

The web host I use for hosting this website, Dreamhost, recently released an updated, Web 2.0-ish control panel. It’s definitely an improvement over the previous design, but something struck me funny about it and I finally remembered what it was.

Hmmm.. Dreamhost’s control panel looks vaguely familiar to Midphase’s.

10 Reasons Why It Doesn’t Pay To Be “The Computer Guy”

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

I came across this article at digg and had to repost since I’m an “IT” guy.
Reason #10 - Most Of Your Accomplishments Are Invisible
The computer guy never hears anyone tell him, “I just want to let you know … everything is working fine!”
The reality is that people call the computer guy when something is wrong.
As [...]