• Trillian Pro

    Trillian has released Pro version 1.0. For a paltry $25 you get Trillian, but you also get added plugin capabilities, like an RSS aggregator, a POP3 mail-checker, a Winamp playlist builder, Stock checker, weather, etc. All of this right in your IM environment. It sounds pretty neat, I may just have to fork out the…

  • News items

    Couple of quick links to interesting things: Online Blog has the explanation for what’s been going on with Daypop. Turns out the owner is in Italy and is unable to fix it from there! Dan Bricklin presents us with The Recording Industry is Trying to Kill the Goose That Lays the Golden Egg. Good stuff…

  • Traveling

    Fred Langa has an interesting article on traveling with laptops and other assorted electronic devices. There’s some good points about airport security and how some people are using the increased airport security to try and get you separated from your laptop so they can walk off with it from the checkpoints. Or you could, like…

  • Interesting discussion

    Kevin and Scott are having a discussion about employee’s doing some personal surfing at work. As an IT person, let me add my 2 cents to the discussion. This is what I tell new employees. I do monitor what you’re doing and while I don’t have time to watch and track every website you visit,…

  • Technical Difficulties

    I’ve been told by Readyhosting’s Tech Support people that the current problems with the site will probably continue through the weekend. They are having a router issue, and the spare part they need to fix their router issue won’t be in until then. So this weekend you can expect random script errors and general unresponsiveness…