Too Cool!Need to start a fire and only have a coke can and a chocolate bar?  Here ya go:http://www.trackertrail.com/ survival/fire/cokeandchocolatebar/ Russian Flying Saucer? This boy can carry the weight!http://www.ekip-aviation-concern.com/ If you are a PVR fan (such as Tivo):http://www.pvrblog.com/ Sony to beem computer displays and sound directly into your brain?http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=8105317& src=rss/technologyNews Humor: If you think it is wrong what happened to Terri Shaivo, you might enjoy this!http://crystal.typepad.com/crystalclear/2005/04/shiavo_3.html Cartoon humor: Old West April fools joke http://gregspseudoworld.blogspot.com/2005/03/april-fool.html Chicken Horror Moviehttp://katesworldblog.blogspot.com/2005/03/ joke-of-day.html Take me out tonighthttp://cantkeepquiet.com/?p=276 Justice? New bill take your free weather data away?http://www.betanews.com/article/Bill_Proposes_Ending_Free_Weather_Data/1114178376

It seems like it was just yesterday that Microsoft owned the Internet browser market.  Actually, it was only a few yesterdays, but their lead is being crushed rapidly! While browsing the logs on my sites, I was surprised to see just how much of a bite FireFox/Mozilla is taking out of the browser market. The Stats for the type of browser used by people visiting my HintsAndTips.com site, back in August of 2004, showed:   85 % MS Internet Explorer 5.4 % Mozilla .01 % FireFox As of today (Jan 19, 2005) the browsers used by visitors to the site this month: 72 % MS Internet Explorer 8.7 % Mozilla 13.2 % FireFox It seems that Microsoft...

 I recently read a rumor that Google is attempting to track people and link all their search queries along with other information, which they supposedly retain forever (or at least until some time in the future).  The site http://www.google-watch.org/gcook.html) has many different thoughts about Google and their practices along with other entities.  While I do not agree with the notion implied that the Internet was degraded by commercialism (as I see it, the commercialism of the Internet is what pays for interesting things to be online), I am concerned about the possible Google tracking, if it is true. Google is unlike...

While reading a post about members of the MozDev opening a new venture called MozSource, which focuses on custom Mozilla projects for commercial purposes, I noticed a link to Nvu, an open source WYSIWYG web site editor based off o the Mozilla Composer. One of the programs I felt I could not live without on Linux is FrontPage. While Nvu is no FrontPage, it is usable for simple sites and is start in the right direction! Another thing I found out in the past week (actually found out a while ago but was reinforced this week) is that open...

Even we old dogs can still learn some new tricks .  This last week I posted a message in the CodeProject.com lounge about the relevance of adding RSS feeds to my sites.  While it was not a large number of replies, it was enough that insisted RSS was here to stay and worth the effort. After a few days pounding around the net, I found a slew of information about RSS feeds, even an article from Forbes that called 2004 they year of RSS.  Once I began to look it seemed like the majority of major sites had RSS feeds...