It is a race to see who falls out of the spotlight faster now that their “15 minutes” is up.

So who will disappear quicker?  Joe Wurzelbacher or Joe Lieberman

Honestly I don’t care as long as they both go away.

This will mark the end of politics on this blog (your welcome).

Those that may from time to time want to see the political talk, I will be starting another blog just for that purpose, The Daft Dem.  Because I don’t believe yesterday was the end… it was only the beginning.

But I will be happy to bring this blog back to a more cheerful and stop be “sooooo serious”  (see Liz, I’m trying)

Next Week will mark the Return of TechParent Tuesday.

Is there anybody that is Happy with the 2.5 upgrade of WordPress. I have heard very little happy chatter, and after installing it on my test server, I have to say, I am quite concerned.

So, Happy? Unhappy? Wait until 2.5.1?

What say you all?

If you have had a problem viewing or commenting her previously, I apologize.  Apparently the Plug-In Bad Behavior started acting… well badly and causing problems.  Everything now should be fixed.

(If you should happen to have Bad Behavior on your site, you may wish to get the latest update if you haven’t already)

Please stand by.

Apparently something went awry with my recent WordPress Update (2.2.3), as it added a boatload of “” characters to all my posts.

Please bear with me as I beat my head against the wall.

Is it just me, or is Yahoo! Mail sending everything from GMail accounts that aren’t in your Yahoo! Contacts into Spam?

I have noticed this both from the GMail side, where people have not been getting e-mail from me, and then later discover that my e-mails are now routed to Spam, and in my Yahoo! account, the same thing applies, as now all the GMail I get is automatically relegated to Spam.

Considering how much spam my lightly used Yahoo! Mail garners per day, this is a daunting task to constantly go Dumster Diving into the Spam folder for valid e-mails when that little used account seems to garner somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 Spams a day.  I can’t even imagine what people who actually use or publish their Yahoo! Mail account take in.

So is it just me?  Or has anyone else noticed this sudden turn against GMail?

I need to know.  Do you answer your comments, IN commen, or do you e-mail replies.  Always the same way?  Or do you answer some in comments and some in e-mail depending on the reply?

Do you prefer the same?  Or do you prefer differently than what you actually do on your own blog?

What do you think about the option to “subscribe to replies” on a post?

Is anybody actively using CoComments?  Thoughts on it?

What is the migratory path of a Swallow?

Another Day, another attempt at a theme. I can’t wait until I can find some time to really work on one of my own rather than depending on tweaking existing themes.

In the mean time, if you have any problems with this new theme, please let m know.

OK, so I have moved to WordPress.

So far though, this is like a house that has the frame, but still hasn’t been made into a home quite yet.

Please excuse the dust as I remodel and make things a bit more comfy.

Thanks for coming along

I have listened for quite some time now from bloggers, and technology pundits, how IE 7 wasn’t going to live up to the hype. How it would still not be as good as Firefox.

Now I use Firefox, but I am not particularly in love with it because of its slow speed and rather sluggish performance. Sure there are some tweaks and Themes that help it load a bit faster, but there always seems to be some trade off involved.

So, I anxiously awaited the new Internet Explorer. And now it is finally here. I installed it, and after only about 10 minutes with this browser, I am here to say to all those naysayers:

All those things you feared, and mocked in the new IE7 Browser? Not only are they true… it is even worse than that.

IE7 is the most incredible piece of junk I have ever been stuck with. Because of security fixes and the like, and because it is so tied into things such as Outlook, Office, plus other parts of the OS, that I have no choice but to install it, and keep it.

But as my everyday browser? Microsoft has finally done it. They have made me a dedicated Firefox user. And at this point, if what I fear is true, this is only the beginning of the end with my relationship with Microsoft.

In what I can only assume is their idea to get users used to the idea of their stupid new ribbon idea that is set to appear in the Vista version of Office, Microsoft has not only redesigned the layout in a most horrific and unintuitive fashion, but they lock you into it. By default the Menu ribbon is turned off. Turn it on, and it appears BELOW the navigation pane (and relocated back and forward buttons). The command toolbar is on the same row as your tabs. And there is no way to change it! So if you have a lot of tabs open, you are forced to choose between having the toolbar fully visible, or being able to read the tabs which wind up getting small real quick because of the lack of space.

I don’t know who did the usability study on this piece of junk, but they should be fired.

Internet Explorer is officially dead to me.

Why? Because I can. Standing here, waiting on my bus home (while it is still light out to boot), and thanks to wireless technology, I can still post. Of course this probably puts me up there on the geek scale, but at least I am not one of those people I used to work with that would be standing at a stall taking care of “business” in one hand while reading or responding to e-mail with the other. I mean seriously, what can be so important that you can’t wait until you’re finished using the facilities ?

I am still tinkering with layout and such until I can create a template that is more me.

Your patience is greatly appreciated.