I wish everyone used del.icio.us to share bookmarks. It’s such a great service that I’ve been thinking of doing a few posts on some of the more useful features.
I never understood why I might want to save my bookmarks online as the browser does a great job. However, once I discovered the del.icio.us extension for Firefox my eyes were opened to how easy it was to quickly save a bookmark for future reference. Bookmarks are saved and a tag is assigned to the link in order to categorize it. As with Flickr, it’s tagging that makes del.icio.us so powerful and easy to use.
Andrea and I send each other links and it’s great. See a site you think might be of interest to your buddy? Save it with the for:username tag and that person will see it on their personal del.icio.us page. Very handy and easier than sending an email.
So, take the above video as entry 1 in the del.icio.us series. To get started browse to the Popular page and get your feet wet. If you already use del.icio.us, send me your username and I’ll add you to my network.
October is turning out to be an excellent month for new operating systems. Ubuntu 7.10 is being released on Thursday. I’ve been using Ubuntu at work for a while now and I can’t wait to update. Price is free.
Apple has finally announced the release date for Leopard 10.5 is October 26th. I decided to do the pre-order thing and that means I’ll have my copy on the 26th. Well, hopefully. Purolator are not exactly good at delivering things which is odd given that is what they do.
Bonus points to Apple for charging Canadians the same price as they do ‘Mericans. Now if only they would do the same thing with their hardware… I also took advantage of my educational discount to get it for $115.
So Ubuntu is free and Leopard is $129. What does Microshaft charge? $499 And it sucks… If you decide to go with the 5 year old XP Professional, you’re still looking at $440
To be fair, my Media Center runs Vista and Media Center works just great. I’m sure my happiness has a lot to do with the fact that I never actually use Vista. Anyway I needed to bank an October post plus I’m all excited about the new OS’s coming out. I hate to miss a chance to slam Microshaft
Nothing much to report here… I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my week off and am really looking forward to starting work next week. Most of the days were spent catching up with people though not all (Dan, I’m on it! Carmen, you too). While the balance of my time was spent doing nothing and/or shopping for a much required wardrobe update.
The Shnewt’s have graciously offered to let me borrow a spare G3 that they have which I’m tres excited about! Seeing that I’ll be working on a Mac project and have basically zero experience, this will help me get up to speed. I’ve been curious about Apple but the entry price is way too high to experiment with one of my own. I’m happy to have Linux around but
Apparently I got distracted by something shiny while composing this post back in August of 2004. That seems so long ago, mostly because it was. I recall I had just been hired by Schemasoft and was about to take a big drink of Apple Kool-Aid. We all know how that turned out…
A very happy birthday to my bro who is celebrating his birthday today. Wish we could have spent it with you but that would have involved planning, organization and stuff.
What does the cockpit of an Airbus A380 have to do with my birthday wishes? Nothing. Nothing at all, but it is very cool apart from the whole browser re-sizing business…
