I would guess that about seven years ago I tried to start blogging.  I started with the earliest version of a blog suggested to me by a friend called Radio Userland.  It was extremely difficult to set up, but I labored for hours to configure it to work.  However, the complications in the early days [...]

Microsoft released a beta of Internet Explorer 8. I confess this summer I have moved exclusively to Firefox for 90% of my activities. I was curious about the possible changes to compete with Firefox. I foolishly installed Internet Explorer 8 on my computer to evaluate. The first tragic problem of evaluating IE8 beta is that [...]

Mozilla recently released a prototype add-on called Ubiquity. It’s a difficult add-on to describe, because it has no single use, and it’s a work in progress. The best way to describe it is a command line interface in Firefox to perform a number of frequently used commands over the course of browsing. It manages to [...]

The Trouble with Twitter Don’t be surprised to see advertising on Twitter soon. It’s about the only way the service can generate revenue. But will it be enough? I have to confess I’m relatively new to using Twitter, within the last month during my vacation. I can definitely see the appeal. I don’t use it [...]

If you haven’t heard, the LA Times, and newspapers nationwide, are in trouble. Due to competition from online news providers, blogs, and new media, the advertising dollar has dried up and fewer people are subscribing to the print edition of the newspaper. This does not surprise me. I’ve subscribed on and off to the newspaper [...]