JT on February 28th, 2007

http://www.joeanderson.co.uk/google/
Homage to OS X dock, but not as shiny as I expected. That must be the Google part of it showing through.

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JT on February 27th, 2007

The Register reports that VMWare is ramping up the bad P.R. against Microsoft’s competing product - VirtualPC. This kind of marketing is probably good at this time of the year - it gets me prepared for the next onslaught of advertising from our presidential candidates.
Microsoft realized it was getting left in VMWare’s dust so they [...]

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JT on February 24th, 2007

Google has had their cross hairs on Microsoft for a long time. They claim to not be interested in what Redmonds’ up to, but they’ve been successfully picking off their weaker products like strangling tourists in a jungle of lions. This week, though - they took a shot at the leader of Microsoft’s pack, Exchange [...]

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JT on February 24th, 2007

I’ve officially made the switch away from Windows today. The R52 Thinkpad I use as my primary computer is now running Ubuntu. I haven’t the heart to compile Gentoo on it yet… but I hear it’s a smidge faster and lot lighter.
So far so good - I’ve got wired and wireless networking up and [...]

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JT on February 22nd, 2007

Every once in a while, I’ll run into a problem that my current collection of tools just can’t do efficiently. I get to thinking, I wonder if someone out there was annoyed at this problem and developed something for it…
Well my dilemma today was picking the exact color of an area, like the vertical column [...]

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