The Death Clock - Personal Death Clock
Morbid fun. Whatelse can I say about a site with the sole purpose of reminding us of our mortality? It more fun than CNN. Check out the site. Put in your stats and the computer will give a personalized countdown to your own demise.
Don't think death is something to be talked about, just look at all the words we have dealing with the concept of death:
afterlife, annihilation, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, eternal rest, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extermination, extinction, fatality, finish, finish, future home, grave, grim reaper, heaven, loss, mortality, necrosis, obliteration, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, passing over, quietus, release, repose, ruin, ruination, silence, sleep, termination, tomb
I for one am not afraid of death. Come on grim reaper, I'm ready. Take me now. Well, first I need to finish up my will. Oh, and I wouldn't mind catching next weeks West Wing first, so if you could hold off for a little while longer. Yeah, and I've got to work on my sense of humor.
Apple
Apple vs. PC?
This debate has raged on for years now between the cultist followers of the Apple and the large segment of PC users. Until recently, I've never considered the question seriously. Apple only has five percent of the market share on computer use and you can't use Apple programs on the Mac. Two major reasons I've never thought seriously about becoming a convert.
The world has changed significantly. Especially for Windows users. With weekly security exploits revealed in Windows XP, I've been prompted to ask the question, is Mac better?
This is only the beginning of my research into this topic. I don't want to throw down at the least, two thousand dollars on a system that doesn't do what I want. If anyone has any good resources to measure the pluses and minuses of PC vs. Mac please feel free to e-mail me. As a techie I'm severely uneducated on the Mac and could use any help you're willing to give.
mozilla.org
Tired of Internet Explorer or Microsoft products in general. Maybe, you're like millions of Internet users worldwide who hate Spam and Pop-ups. If so, then clearly, it's time for a change. And Mozilla might just do the trick. It worth at least a visit to their website to learn what this open source Internet Suite can do for you.
Currently, I'm working with Mozilla 1.5 instead of the standard Windows products. Primarily, I'm using it for e-mail and browsing. The Pop-up blocker has worked seamlessly since I installed it. As well as the Spam filter software. I receive well over a hundred e-mails a day from readers, friends, colleagues, and my share of unsolicited commercial crap. Thus far, it has worked splendidly.
The Mozilla browser has a great tab browsing function allowing multiple pages to be run from tabs located around the border of the browser. Saving relevant bookmarks allows users to pull up a host of web pages with the push of one button. Instead of having a handful browsers each running separately as with Internet Explorer, these tabbed pages are easy to access.
At this point, my only concern is over the speed of the browser. It does it's job but it doesn't seem to work as smoothly as Internet Explorer. With Explorer I rarely see the image placeholder while a page is instantaneously downloading. I can't say the same for the Mozilla browser. This may be an issue with my set up or a bug they are working on, only time will tell at this point. However, as I said, it does it's job. If you are a power Internet user this is worth a test drive.
