I love this. Totally trying this out. Just need to wait tell my brother gets a kinect.

http://gizmodo.com/5565595/how-to-piss-off-an-xbox-360-kinect-user

Oh, there is my rant for the day. Thanks for listening.

Link to PC World about the news.

Go check it out for yourself ->

The ‘MythBusters’ discuss their top 25 moments.

It talks about how Google Chrome, and Safari are probably taking it’s place.  I hate to say it, but I do like Google Chrome, and in fact it is my default web browser on all my Windows machines.  Though Firefox is still the best browser on Linux for me.

To help bluster my browser, I wanted to point out the changes that are coming.  Sort of a Mozilla Firefox 4.0 look and compare to current Chrome.

Extension

The one thing I love about Chrome is the way it does extensions.  I don’t necessarily love the extensions that Chrome currently has.  They have a long way to go before they have Firefoxs library.  But it’s simplisted is wonderful how they install and work.  Simple, clean, and interactive.

So what about Firefox.  Well they are going to solve that through an update call Jetpack.  Jetpack extensions work just like Chrome extensions.  In fact I don’t think it would be that hard to port a Chrome extension to Firefox Jetpack or vs versa.

Check out Jetpack here.

SCREEN SIZE

While I do like how the extensions work in chrome, chromes greatest feature, is browsing screen realistate.  It does a a great job of showing more of the webpage and less of the browser.  Again though Firefox is working on that two.   Check out this picture though to see Firefox 4.0 mockups.

As you can see Firefox has great potential.

STABILITY

The last thing that is great about Chrome, is it’s stability.  If my flash crashes it only takes down that one tab.  Not the whole browser.  But again, this feature is going to also be built into Mozilla Firefox 4.0.

CONCLUSION

While Firefox my be behind, it is close to playing catchup, and I think I will be able to switch back to my browser baby as my full time browser on all OS soon.

I just wanted to point this article out because of how important it is to secure your personal wi-fi.  You never know who is using your internet and what for.  Plus don’t use your neighbors wi-fi, it is still illegal in the States.

I have always enjoyed watching Germany play during the last World Cup’s.  This new game, just goes to show they have the stuff.

For all you other people out there who have other opinions….Let the Flame War Begin.

Now you may be saying wow!  Eight years and it never broke on you.  Hey I didn’t say it never broke, it did, I was just able to always fix it.  But this time, it was the main mother board that broke.  Just wouldn’t connect to the computer any more.

I replaced it with a Brother MFC-295CN.  I have to say I really like Brother printers.  This is my first one at home, but we used them at work and they are great work horses.  I was a little worried as all the printer’s at work were laser,  this is the first inkjet Brother I’ve ever dealt with, but it is trumpeting on fine.

One of the main reason why I love Brother printers so much, is because of their Linux support.  I plug it into the network and every computer can use it.  Regardless of OS.  I can even scan form it in Linux or Windows form any computer.  Plus it is a fax machine.  Not that I will ever really use that feature.

The auto-document feeder was also an added bonus.  It has already come in handy.

It is not really that good at photo printing, but hey anyone who is printing photos form home is wasting there money.  Send it to Costco or Walgreens.  Better prints and cheaper.  Though the ink on this baby is only around $12 dollars.  My old HP cost around $40 to replace the ink.  Though it defiantly probably held more ink.   Again that old printer was a monster compared to this one.

The upside to all of this, is that I only spent $69.00 for it.  Crazy how things change in 8 years.

Complex society and complex plot.  I’m amazed this is for teen readers.  Brand new look at how fantasy could be.  But I should of guess it would come from Garth Nix.  If you want adventure and a new sense of magic you should read this series.

The story is set in a world that has been cast into darkness and you have two classes of people.  Those who live in the castle that is tall enough to escape outside the darkness and those who live on the ground cast into darkness to live.  The two main characters come for the class one from each.  As there world collide they have to find a way to save each others families.

I know I’m terrible I should give more detail.  Here is the review from amazon:

Tal, a Chosen of the Orange Order, is having the worst luck lately. Just when he is getting ready for the Day of Ascension–a day when all the 13-year-old Chosen from the Castle of Seven Towers enter the spirit world of Aenir–his father disappears with the family’s only primary Sunstone, which Tal needs for the ascension. Without it, he cannot enter Aenir and bind himself to a Shadowspirit–a kind of guardian being that serves as a friend and protector to the person it is bound to. And without a Shadowspirit, Tal will lose both his Chosen status and any hope of finding a cure for his mother’s mysterious wasting illness, a cure that can only come from Aenir. Tal tries to beg, borrow, and even steal a Sunstone. But his attempts fail, and in his final act of thievery, Tal is thrown off the Castle of Seven Towers by a powerful Shadowspirit Keeper and into an adventure beyond his imagining. –Jennifer Hubert

Here is a direct link to amazon for the first book:

http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Seventh-Tower-1/dp/0439176824/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276539884&sr=8-1

Why bit.ly.  It just seemed the simplest to use with great features.  Check it out for yourself if your interested

http://bit.ly

During that entire time, I ignored the world.  I didn’t post to my blog.  No twitter updates or facebook updates.  Though i use twitter to post to my facebook page, cause I hate logging in.  Thought that my change.  I finally found the hide button (I know it was really hard to fine). So now I don’t have to hear from you people about all your cows on farmville or how many people you’ve killed in mafia wars.

But the moral of the story, is that seclusion is great.  I might do it again.

I am a computer geek so it only took me 10 minutes to fix the problem.  But no wonder they never did it themselves.  I would hate to even see them try.  AOL get your crap together.