On January 3, 2005, I received a computer mouse from IT to go along with my first company laptop. I call it Microsoft Optical Mouse Version 1.0 because I cannot remember whether there is any other more basic model than this one: This model was probably one of the first upgrades from the old mechanical [...]
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Another New Home
My personal blog has hopped around several homes over the years. In high school/pre-college, Live Journal was the new thing for people to have a free online journal. In those days, blogging sites were fairly primitive so there weren’t too many options to choose from. Next came Xanga for the majority of college, which became [...]
The Essentials
What would I do without Google products on a daily basis…? GmailGoogle TalkGoogle Maps (Street View is very cool)Google ReaderGoogle CalendarGoogle Docs (Document, Spreadsheet, Presentation)Google GroupsPicasa Web AlbumsiGoogleBloggerGoogle TranslateGOOG-411 The respective Yahoo counterparts aren’t quite up to par in my book (except for Flickr compared to Picasa). They work, but not as well. I simply [...]
RSS what? who?
One word to describe this clip: awesome Click To Play There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don’t know where to start.
Information Overload
Thinking back to my initial usage of the Internet, I was amazed that even a site like Yahoo existed as I slowly surfed the web with my 14.4 kbps modem (1997?). It was neat that more and and more websites were forming for different organizations, newspapers, and personal homepages. Instant messaging was a big hit [...]