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West Wing ends its seven year run in May

January 22, 2006

NBC announced a shake-up in it's lineup as its shows continue to ail in the ratings. West Wing had been scrapped prior to John Spencer's death late last year. The network also killed Will and Grace and announced it wasn't sure what it would do with twelve episodes of the ill-fated Friends spinoff Joey.

One of the benefits of giving up on current television in favor of watching those worthwhile shows on DVD is that I'll still have two seasons of West Wing to go. That is if Netfilx will ever list them in the directory so I can add them to my saved rentals.

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Colorado State in the road to the Superbowl

January 22, 2006

This afternoon's AFC championship game brings a couple of Colorado State University alumni back to the Centennial State. Pittsburg has two outstanding linebackers in pro-bowler Joey Porter and his CSU teammate Clark Haggans.

Better yet as a partisan 'Stater' although three of the Steelers have Colorado schools in their college days, none of them are from the home of the Buffaloes.

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Drupal.org Down?

January 20, 2006

Is it just me or is Drupal.org down? Of course I need to start a new project quickly and wanted to get the latest beta.

Update: Must have been because it is responding now.

Update too: There is a post explaining the outages.

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Giving up on SOHO Organizer

January 18, 2006

So what is to be done when you get around to releasing an incredibly buggy piece of software much later than promised just to get it out the door? Evidently if you're Chronos you close up shop and head out to the industry trade show. As if that weren't insulting enough when people post about it in the discussion area evidently there is time request people take posts down but not to address the concerns.

Chronos produced a great set of tools Group Organizer and Personal Organizer for several years. As all around personal information managers they ruled the Mac platform with little competition. Personal Organizer suffered some competition from Apple's iCal and Address Book but had enough features to make it valuable. The interfaces of both programs suffered from never making the jump to the new Aqua design of OS X.

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The problem with photocasting

January 17, 2006

Lots of hay has been made this week over the Mac only nature of photocasting. Apple is being bashed from all sides for using photocasting as a marketing ploy for Safari. It seems, however, that a few relevant facts may be left out. Here's what I've been able to determine.

In addition to working with the Safari and iPhoto duo, photocasting also works well with Thunderbird on Windows and on both platforms Bloglines has no problem reading the feed and showing it.

Apple is checking for an RSS capable browser and if you don't have one you'll see a message suggesting Safari works well. What are they supposed to suggest instead? A competitor's product? Safari has some of the best river of news style RSS display of any browser on the market. Sure you can do the same thing with NetNewsWire but it eats CPU cycles and spits them out to get warmed up.

What is being overlooked is an interesting new setup. If you come to visit a feed with a non-feed reader why should I not set my web server to show you the content you will be able to see? Browser detection has been in use for years to accommodate mobile users with their WAP browsers. Why not do the same with web feeds on the desktop. Something to take a look at once the Drupal 4.7 release hits the streets.

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Decline and fall of the Slashdot empire

January 17, 2006

Jeremy Zawodny comments today that "Slashdot is going out of style in 2006". I agree with his commentary that it will take some time for Slashdot to eventually go the way of Altavista, but he's completely right on with his prediction. In the article he notes that it is difficult to judge what the few in control over at Slashdot will find worthy and quickly one decides it's not only worth posting but you're so unsure what you'll get if you read that there are better feeds out there to spend time on.

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Slowdowns using IRM on Safari

January 15, 2006

For the past few months we've been working with Information Resource Manager at work. It seems to be one of the best open source/freeware database managers for tracking assets and help desk functions for small teams. The lingering annoyance had been slow performance. The more I experimented it turned out the slow performance was only when using Safari/OS X. A quick trip to the /Applications/Utilites/Java/J2SE 5.0/ folder and opening up the Java Preferences allowed me to change the Java settings from 1.4.2 to J2SE 5.0 and all is well.

The latest release of IRM (Yesterday) adds some great functionality for moving printers and other non-computer assets into their own categories.

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