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Well it is Friday - we all need to relax a little bit.  So for today’s post, I am going to give you guys links to my favorite geek comics that can be found on the web.  Some aren’t updated as often as others, but I find all of them hillarious! 

Dilbert - this is a given for the office geek.  Just subscribe to the RSS feed.

XKCD - some are better than others, but as a whole dang good entertainment

Bugbash - Worked as a vendor at Microsoft for a little while, this comic was on the internal MS newsletter, and now also on this guys site.

Abstruse Goose - ok, a bit dry at times though

GraphJam: Pop culture for people in cubicles.

Cross-Posted on AxaptaSource.com

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This really isn’t much of a shock, but has taken the net by storm.  Google has released it’s own browser.  Before getting into any specifics, I will give some first impressions.  I use IE6 at work (requirement), and Firefox3 with various extentions.  (FF being my browser of choice at the moment.)  That being said - Chrome is impressive.  I have seen massive speed improvements in my normal sites.  (Google Reader being the most impressive speed difference, though I should have expected that.)

There has been some dissention out there.  Chrome is too basic, doesn’t yet support Extentions, new version of Firefox (3.1) will make this pointless, the Default EUAL, etc.  Some of these have a valid point.  On the other hand - it is a rock solid beta application.  How many other betas have we gotten from MS that crashed repeatedly.  FF has been pretty good about this in its newer versions.

Follow some of the links above for more information, I will also be posting some resources links below.  I would encourage people out there to try it for themselves and form their own oppinion.  I for one am looking forward to seeing what it becomes, though not ready yet to make a full switch from Firefox.  (The process per tab works really well.)

Google Chrome Comic Book

Google Chrome Download

ArsTechnica Review of Chrome

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For those geeks out there using Wordpress for their websites - get this plugin. It Automatically upgrades your wordpress to the latest code version.

The only kink I have run into with it is it has a habit of not reactivating your plugins, but really that only takes an extra second. I just finished upgrading the codebase of 5 different sites with it in about 10 minutes. That is about a tenth of the time it used to take me manually uploading the new WP files. I used to wait or delay upgrading site code till I was sure the kinks were worked out, till I got hit with a script attack that poisened every single one of my php files. After that I tried to be a little more proactive on keeping my site code up to date, but it was still a pain. This way, it was so quick and simple, even if there is a bugfix release tomorrow, I will be able to be right on top of it.

Highly recommended!

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Plasma torch garbage processing produces usable gas, electricity

Saw this one over at CrunchGear - it sounds neat. Yet I wonder what the net return will be on this. Are fuel costs factored in to ship trash there once the immediate local garbage dump is exhausted? Judging by the scale implied, the plant isn’t going to move from dump to dump, so in the long run trash will have to go there. While the number of trash we produce will easily fuel this concept - can we get it their cheap enough to make it a more viable solution?

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Check out Mark’s post on how to get your hands on XP. Officially it can’t be had anymore.

Windows XP has been retired but you can still get it

Mark has pointed out a source for us to try and get it. If you get a new machine with Vista on it, building a PC for mom, etc - might be worth the effort to try.

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This post is a follow-up to the initial post I did right after installing the Firefox plugin called ScribeFire.

I must say - I love this firefox plugin. ScribeFire has really helped me breath new life into my blogs. I have been working on posting more in general, but I find myself really making use of it. I read a good post, I link to it in a post of my own via the in browser interface. I find this to be a sharp contrast to when I had tested MS Live Writer a while ago. I just never used it. Maybe the key difference is this is in Firefox, my personal browser of choice.

Anywho - I do recommend it to other bloggers. My intial impressions were spot on. It is easy to use and so handy I find myself blogging more than I used to.

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American Airlines’ WiFi debuts tomorrow; Glenn Fleishman’s analysis - Boing Boing

Read the article, its starting tomorrow. It is a pretty good article and I would encourage everyone to go and read it.

I am still thinking personally I wouldn’t want internet access on an airplane. When I was traveling full time as a software consultant, I loved the few hours of being totally cut off. No calls, no emails, no internet. (So couldn’t guilt myself into working.) It was a nice peaceful time of paperback books and ipods. I am sure there are those out there who love the idea of being able to work or whatnot from the air, admittedly there are times I really could have used the net as well, but not having a choice made it easy to relax.

What does everyone out there think?

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I love blogging… I am sometimes random and lazy at it, but I really do love it. (If I spent less time reading other blogs and more working on the various blogs I run I might get more done.)

Anywho - this particular post I am trying from the Firefox plugin: ScribeFire. First impression, where is the catch? Is there a hidden charge or donation button somewhere? This addon so far is working exactly, even better than, promised. Linking all of my blogs and being able to select between them inside of the addon, writing this post, etc… all simple.

It took me less than a minute to install, configure it for 5 blogs, and start working on this post. I will have a followup post on this later after I work with it some more - however if you are a blogger and are currently logging in to post your work (ie wordpress create new post screen) I would encourage you to try this - it rocks.

ScribeFire
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A quick note - I have looked more closely on my RSS Aggregation experiment, and for some reason on this site it turned out to be a total failure.  I discovered that instead of headlines and a little post, it was pulling entire articles - which was most certainly not the intent.  The sites I like to (Lifehacker, Geeks are Sexy, TechDirt, etc) I would like to point out great articles, most certainly not draw attention from them.

I have erred on the side of correctness and just deleted all of the pulled in posts till either I can figure out why full posts are coming in - or just not even bother trying to set up automatic headlines.  Point being to draw attention to sites I think are great, not away from it.

So for now the issue is moot.

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