Jim Lynch: Off the Top of My Head…

Definitely nice to see this, puts more pressure on Yahoo and MSN to add more free storage to their services.
On the one-year anniversary of Gmail, Google is doubling the storage limit on e-mail accounts to 2GB and keeping the service as an invite-only beta.
The increase, going live on Friday, is the first of a [...]

Release candidate for Ubuntu is out. I’m looking forward to checking this out and seeing what they’ve done since the last release (which was pretty darn good on its own).

Interesting thread over at Slashdot about the impact of work on somebody’s health.
I just got a new job where I just sit in one place all day and work for 12 hours at a stretch. This goes on for 4 days a week and I get 3 days off. The journey to and from my [...]

I think this is going to get worse before it gets better.
Chasin expects this first-generation phishing to move toward pharming, which involves Trojans, worms, or other technology that attack the browser address bar. Thus, when users type in a “valid” URL they are redirected to the criminals’ Web sites.
Another way to accomplish the same [...]

It’s out.

America Online’s Netscape team has opened its doors to the public, releasing the first beta of the revived Netscape Web browser. Based upon Firefox, Netscape version 8 focuses on security and user privacy, and supports rendering with both Mozilla’s Gecko and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser engines.
Does anybody care though? I’m not rushing [...]

Good post over in PCMag’s forum by a satisfied Mac Mini owner who seems to be moving away from Windows over to OS X.

As a PC user of 20 years who bought a Mac Mini, here are a few thoughts after reading the entire thread here:
1. Many PC switchers probably already have what they need. [...]

I’ve been playing World of Warcraft and I’m totally addicted! :mrgreen:
I’ll try to update it this weekend. :oops:

I like this idea. I like it a lot! Keeps jobs here in the United States and keeps people here employed.
What’s not to love?
Silicon Valley, Boston and Austin may have some new competition–and not just from Bangalore, Shanghai and Singapore.
The latest kids on the tech block are places like Twin Falls, Idaho; Oklahoma City; [...]

News.com has a look at possible mini mac buyers and what the impact of it might be. I think it’s going to be great for parents and grandparents especially. The lack of viruses and spyware plus the small size and good looking design, along with OSX works very well in its favor.
The main question [...]

I’ve been very bad lately. I haven’t been blogging at all and the guilt has finally overwhelmed me.
:shock:
So…I guess I better get off my rear end and get writing again…

Works for me, the more the merrier. Tivo could use some competition and a good kick in the rear end.
Despite all the hoopla around fiber to the home, video DSL and all, SBC instead of twiddling its thumbs is jump starting its triple play efforts by bundling satellite and DSL in one box, which [...]

In honor of the holidays, I’ll be taking some time off. I’ll probably be back sometime in January, most likely at the beginning of the new year but maybe not. I may put the blog to sleep for a while. We’ll see, I think I’m in need of a blog snooze for a bit.

If you’re [...]

Damn, not a bad idea. But what happens if the kid turns it off?

Franks will be the official face of Teen Arrive Alive. The organization aims to get teens to carry a cell phone containing a GPS chip that sends out regular signals letting parents know where they are and how fast they’re going.
If [...]

Pardon the way the left nav strip looks right now. I’m trying to tweak the CSS and I’m having some problems. I moved some stuff over to the left that was way at the bottom. But the CSS is giving me a headache.
I want it to look the way the text does in the [...]

Thunderbird is out. You can get it for your favorite operating system here.

Can’t say I’m surprised. I hope the employees that were laid off are able to find new jobs quickly.
About 750 employees at America Online were laid off Tuesday as part of the Internet giant’s efforts to cut costs and to realign its business units, a company spokesman confirmed.
As previously reported, most of employees [...]

Very true.

A study by analysts Jupiter Research suggested that broadband was challenging television viewing habits.
In homes with broadband, 40% said they were spending less time watching TV.
The threat to TV was greatest in countries where broadband was on the up, in particular the UK, France and Spain, said the report.
I know in my [...]

Very sorry to have to do it but the spammers have forced me to set up a validation system.
When you go to post a comment you will have to enter the validation code displayed in the comment post area. Hopefully this will eliminate the flood of spam that has come onto my blogs recently.
Thank [...]

This is just too weird for me. Thanks but no thanks. :roll:
The Netscape prototype is built upon Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3, which means it utilizes the same user interface toolkit and Gecko browser engine. The browser’s theme has been redone to match Netscape’s traditional green style and, as expected, customized Netscape-specific extensions have been added to [...]

If you post a comment, be aware that it will go into a moderation area before appearing in the entry that you posted it to. I’ve gotten way too much comment spam and what looks like test comments by the spammers. So I’ve set everything up so that all comments are moderated before being released. [...]