February 2005 Archives

I have just been diagnosed as a stark raving lunatic. If I were not insane, there would be no explanation for why I agreed to taking 9 credit hours of graduate school courses this semester. I suppose that this alone is not suicidal, but if you couple it with working 40hrs, clearly you have a very volatile situation. Someone did an analysis that states that you need 3hrs of study for every credit hour. So, doing the math I actually need 27 hrs of study for the 9 credit hours that I am maintaining.

Where's the small padded cell and straight jacket? I'm fatigued and confused.

If you were wondering when I'd update the photo journal, stop the guessing. Alas, I've updated it with some recent pics and some not-so recent pics.
Should give you an idea of what I have been doing these past few months.

Apparently I'm late in my discovery, but I just thought I would share this with you anyway.
As I have mentioned previously, Google is the most powerful search engine on the internet. Not only is it capable of doing the more mundane search duties, it now offers a method to index all of the files on your hard drive.

No longer will you have to search for that elusive filename, simply type a few characters that describe what you want. The speed is exceptionally good, and the accuracy is remarkable.

Please be advised that Google Desktop is a beta program that only runs on M$ windows. Because Google is Linux friendly, I'm sure that the company will eventually release the desktop search software for other operating systems.

Recently came across a very funny article by a M$ engineer. It was particularly amusing because I know dozens of other people that have experienced the same issues. Hence, the reason that I became a Linux evangelist many years ago. How secure is your Windows installation ?
Don't Try This At Home

I'm still amazed that people haven't yet discovered the virtues of the Firefox web browser. I suppose that I could classify the article below as clueless pundit of the week, but to be fair, I believe the author is genuinely interested in exploring (pun intended) the benefits of the browser that soon could become ubiquitous.

Bottom Line: IE is a very poorly designed browser. It is full of security vulnerabilities and is classic bloatware. I seriously doubt that M$ will be able to add the very neat features that Firefox and earlier Mozilla browser have employed for quite awhile.

elizabeth grigg: using firefox