I just love what these people do for computing!
Further research yields this: Google Labs. These cats are always up to something!
The Blog of Peter Filias
…a self-proclaimed Computer Ninja
Monthly Archives: November 2003
Amazing!!!
Check this out!!! It looks like the wheels are moving. Now…stare at just ONE of the circles, you’ll notice that it stops!
Excited for the Thanksgiving Weekend!
What can be more exciting that spending time with your moms, dads, brothers, and sisters? NOT HAVING TO GO TO WORK FOR TWO DAYS!!! That’s about how I can sum it up. The older I get, the more I would like to just stay home and rest, and do my own thing, galavanting around town, having a dandy old time. Possible? Sure. Probable? Not really. Gotta work for the man. It’s okay though, builds character! Yeah, right!
Duck Computer
So, tomorrow, Michelle and I are going to go over to the Duck house for Thanksgiving Dinner. Michelle is going to learn how to prepare the “traditional” meal, while I’m going to rehab their family computer, which is actually the SAME computer I built Michelle for Christmas about 4 years ago! Can you believe it? Those people are so low-usage on their computer that it’s never broken down, or anything. All I’ve done is upgraded the processor from a Celeron 400 to a Pentium III 450 (I think). I’ve run virus scans and spyware checkers, but besides that, it’s been churning away with Windows 98 (in due need of XP) for all these years. Heck, I even threw a DVD drive in it that I had laying around, hoping they’d watch a movie on their PC, since they don’t have a DVD player for their family room (at least not hooked up). They never did. Who actually watches DVDs on their desktop computers? Nobody I know. I think, sometimes, people watch DVDs on laptops, mainly for the sheer portability factor, but that’s about it.
Computer Lifing
I’ve been computer lifing the past few nights until about 1 am. Although I pay for it the next day, and night, it has been quite fun. I MISS my computer. I’ve been using the laptop during the evening hours if I’ve got some things to do, but I haven’t actually used my Shuttle this much in a very long time, not since we moved to the house at the end of May, at least. I’m looking forward to having a good Winter with the Shuttle. It’s got a new (now external) DVD Burner, and it’s ready to rock and roll!
Stony Creek
Did I mention that Michelle and I ran six miles this weekend at Stony Creek? It’s been quite some time since we ran outdoors, since Oct. 5. It felt great, too. I was a LITTLE out of shape, but not so much. I almost wish I lived close enough to Stony so that I could just jog in, do 3-6 miles, and jog back home. Maybe one day!
Funny picture!
This rocks!
Conversation with Dan about popup ads!
Dan and I like to talk, sometimes debate, about varying topics, usually to do with technology and computers. I always try to share the things I run across with Dan, and others, and my latest push has been to tabbed browsing. Although the following quote is about pop-up ads, it stemmed from my push to use Mozilla or Firebird, which comes with a built-in popup blocker. Read below!
Dan: I know you hate em, and I hate em too (pop-ups) but tabbed browsing, pop-up blockers, etc. aren’t a plus to our career field. If the blockers were completely successful to get rid of a large portion of ads (a portion will still occur directly on the page itself) the internet would slowly start to dwindle away from it’s free nature, it already has. Just as in a similar but extreme example of taking away commercials on TV would lead to all paid prgramming. Instead of free shows, Like ER, Friends, and Smallville, your left only with HBO type shows, which are good, even great, but in terms of dollars to quantity there’s no comparison. Which leads to less content, which leads to less content providers (us the developers in the Internet version of this example). Therefore I’ll always support pop-up ads, and even click on them once in a while, not because I’m interested in the Ad but because of what it stands for and perpetuates. Just like TV commecials, I’ve never bought anything because of one and only like the ones that are funny, and even then I don’t know or care what they are peddling I just like the creative humor behind it. And that sir is my Diatribe for the Day. If I was geeky enough I’d put it a blog,but that’s just gross 
An Article about ads from Ars Technica, one of OUR favorite sites!
