Entries from March 2005

birthday boy gets toys

Date March 28, 2005

march 20th, i turned 31 and my wife showered me with gifts

sick again

Date March 22, 2005

well i’ve been sick over the past couple of weeks. again. it seems my earlier sickness was just the beginning of something ugly. the doctor diagnosed me with severe bronchitis and gave me some pills and an inhaler to clear my lungs. believe it or not, i’m back on the road [...]

google desktop released - with new features

Date March 8, 2005

it’s soft of odd that that a product can come out of beta with new features, but who’s to question google? google desktop was released to the public with the following new areas to search:

Netscape Mail / Thunderbird

Netscape / Firefox / Mozilla

PDF

Music

Images

Video

i’ve installed it and its been indexing my drive for about 3 hours [...]

total fark

Date March 8, 2005

since i read fark.com so much, i decided to pay $5 this month to check out their premium service, totalfark. so far it’s not bad and the amount of links submitted is a bit overwhelming. i’ll probably catch up on it tonight.
braytek, fark

daily flickr-broke-us

Date March 4, 2005

my daily flickr/del.icio.us aggregator seems to be broken and i haven’t had much time to fix it. i’m going to disable it so you guys will stop getting blank posts every night.
braytek, flickr, del.icio.us

secure your operating system

Date March 1, 2005

for those of you on the internet, you need to read this article “how secure is your computer“. we hear every day about viruses and worms infesting computers without the users knowledge. this article did their own tests of computers “out of the box” without doing anything but connecting it to the internet. [...]

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