PatSine

For my first day back, I'm cleaning out all of my notes from 2007! One of the things people have asked is for better instructions for using del.icio.us. I really got the hang of this and used is extensively in 2007. So, my first offering for 2008 is these two guides.

For those who prefer text instructions, How to: Del.icio.us Part 1 from Benibshop.me.uk. There is no part 2, but this is pretty complete for starting.

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For years I taught about the differences between directories (Yahoo, DMOZ) and keyword search engines (Google, Altavista). Then last week I did a presentation about searching and declared that the world of directories was pretty much dead. Everyone goes right to Google or Wikipedia these days. Continue reading...

One thing geeks have really enjoyed over the past decade is debating which browser is best. Of course, this month with the introduction of Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7, we are just in hog heaven! These days, I'm splitting my times almost evenly between my MacBook and my desktop Windows XP machines. On my MacBook, it's all Firefox, all the time. On Windows, I jump from IE7 to Firefox and back and forth. Continue reading...

I started off on this tangent as I was listening to a podcast about biking. They were covering a news story in which a town council in Texas was trying to pass an ordinance to require all cyclists, of any age, to wear helmets. This led to a very loud protest and the ordinance was at least tabled. So that roused my usual knee-jerk reaction that "That government is best that governs least." I knew if I wanted to include a quote like that in a blog entry I’d have to attribute it. I had always remembered this as Thoreau, but I wanted to be sure so off to trusty Google. Continue reading...