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Dead to me: Jared

Jared, the self-proclaimed “Galleria of Jewelry” is dead to me.  Their commercials are too annoying for me to handle.

Umm… Do you mean Pepsi?

My Sierra Mist can says “From the makers of Pepsi”.

New WordPress Stats plugin

Automattic has just published a cool new stats plugin for WordPress.  It uses WordPress.com’s statistics API, so your blog’s performance isn’t affected at all by calling internal scripts.  The idea is a lot like Google Analytics, but it’s geared specifically toward blogs.  I’m giving it a try on this blog.  We’ll see how it goes [...]

Drive

Alex Tully wins the race and saves his wife and the Fox television network swoops in and shuts down the illegal, underground, secret road race forever.  The end. Thanks Fox.

GAIM is no more

The first beta version of Pidgin has been released.  Because of trademark reasons, the popular open source IM client GAIM has decided to change their name to Pidgin.  They’ve taken this opportunity to do a little re-branding while they were at it.  It looks good! http://pidgin.im/

Monster by Mail Boinged

Mark Frauenfelder (German for “Fields of women”) has blogged about Len’s Monster by Mail.  Len’s halfway through his second phase.  If you haven’t gotten a monster yet, go order it soon.  Len may or may not keep up with the monster theme next time around. This is the third time something I’ve been involved with [...]

Trying Feisty on for size

I’ve installed Feisty on my desktop at work. For now, I am going to have both Feisty and Windows Vista on the machine, so that I can evaluate which one will work better for my needs. I was already using VMWare for some of my applications which need to run on XP, so I’m not [...]

Thank you, Mr. Vonnegut

A tribute by Jessica Hagy

OSS Hosting

Why hasn’t anyone made good centralized hosting for open source software projects? SourceForge has a crappy interface (especially on the project admin side) and Google (ironically) has a terrible search. I’d completely host my projects, but I like the download mirroring of these systems.

Happy Easter!

I know Easter is almost over here in the Central Standard Time Zone, but here’s a little easter joy from George Stanton.