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Firefox 3.0 Download Day

June 18th, 2008 at 10:57 am » Comments (2)

I use the Firefox web browser when I have a choice. I’ve tried Safari and it’s fine once I turn off the horrible fuzzy text, but whatever I try I always come back to Firefox. Today, FireFox 3.0 is released and the Mozilla people are hoping to set a world record for downloads. I’ve done [...]



Blogger? Journalist? Whatever!

February 29th, 2008 at 2:09 pm » Comments (1)

Roopinder Tara has raised an interesting point about how different CAD vendors treat journalists and bloggers. Ralph Grabowski has responded with a “Who cares“. Now you have more CAD blogger navel gazing to put up with as I have my say on the matter.
As a traditional magazine journalist (Cadalyst, 1995 - present) and now as [...]



This blog is ugly…

February 29th, 2008 at 10:42 am » Comments (1)

…if you’re using Internet Explorer 7. Thanks to Rick for pointing this out. It looks fine in other browsers, including IE6 and my own preferred browser, Firefox 2. Now I have to try to work around the IE7 bugs (which include splitting and misplacing images) to get the blog looking reasonable for everybody. Sigh. Thanks, Microsoft.
Anyway, [...]



Thinking of registering a domain name? Just do it!

February 26th, 2008 at 1:49 pm » Comments (0)

If you are thinking of putting yourself or your company out there with your own domain name (e.g. cadnauseam.com), there are many, many sites out there that allow you to enter a domain name and see if it’s available. Don’t use them.
Why not? Because some of those sites will then immediately register that domain. You [...]



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