For you Firefox fans out there, read this:
Blake Ross has the new Firefox tag line The one that blocks all the schmutz.
Funny!

Watch out! Globetechnology reports that it takes 12 minutes for your PC to become infected.

If your Windows computer is not properly protected, chances are it will take all of 12 minutes before it becomes infected, a major security company says.
The speed with which machines can become infected has shortened, virus-watchers at Sophos, based in [...]

Neat little website to check out when you have some spare time: storTroopers - make yourself!
Basically, you start off with a skeleton and are given skin, hair, clothes and other options that you can use to create an image of yourself or whoever you want. Good for creating avatars… If you make [...]

Boy, can I agree with this!
From Yahoo! News - Programming Jobs Losing Luster in U.S.
As tens of thousands of engineering jobs migrate to developing countries, many new entrants into the U.S. work force see info tech jobs as monotonous, uncreative and easily farmed out — the equivalent of 1980s manufacturing jobs.
The research firm Gartner Inc. [...]

I’ve found myself a new hobby - Geocaching!
A year or so ago, I briefly skimmed over an article about geocaching. It seemed interesting at the time, but I didn’t follow up and eventually forgot about it. A couple weeks ago, there was an article in Kentucky Living about geocaching which again sparked my [...]

Are You Addicted to E-Mail?
U.S. residents are so hooked on e-mail that some check for messages in the bathroom, in church, and while driving, a new survey sponsored by America Online has found.
The average e-mail user in the U.S. has two or three e-mail accounts and spends about an hour every day reading, sending, and [...]

Interesting, but a little scary too…

Elwood “Woody” Norris pointed a metal frequency emitter at one of perhaps 30 people who had come to see his invention. The emitter — an aluminum square — was hooked up by a wire to a CD player. Norris switched on the CD player.
“There’s no speaker, but when I point [...]

Can’t find the time or the finances to take a road trip or vacation? How about some Google Sightseeing instead? Okay, it’s not as fun by any means, but it’s still interesting. This site lists interesting images from Google’s latest addition to it’s mapping service - satellite images from Keyhole.
What are your [...]

Finally, the next installment of the “What Is…” Series. If you haven’t already, read the previous article - The “What is…” Series: RSS - as I will allude to it in this write-up. I didn’t get much feedback on the last article, and I’m figuring it was too long and not many people [...]

Google has doubled the amount of storage space for it’s email service, Gmail, to 2GB. I don’t think I’ll ever have to worry about that account getting full. Gmail accounts are great for sending photos and large files.
Read about the increase in storage as well as other new features on the What’s New [...]