July 2005
Erased from existence!
MSN has erased Apple from existence. Their map service fails to show Apple’s HQ, where Google‘s map service shows it in its full splendor. What’s going on?
Vista
Microsoft has officially named their new OS, “Windows Vista”. I think it’s the worst name you could possibly come up with. It must have been decided by a committee, because in my experience that’s how really bad ideas come to exist.
500,000,000
Amy Greer from Lafayette, Indiana, USA purchased the 500,000,000th iTunes song on 7/17/05 at 2:44 pm. The song was “Mississippi Girl” by Faith Hill.
Developer Guide
I’ve been reading the Macromedia Certified Developer Guide for Coldfusion MX 7 by Ben Forta. So far it seems like a great book. If you’re an intermediate developer this might be a good book for you to keep on your desk.
Flash Embedder
Shockwave Flash Embedder is a useful resource for embedding flash files into web pages. It allows you to set options which are automatically coded into the page for you.
Dual core
IBM finally came out with a dual core processor. A month after Apple kicked them to the curb. Two little, “two” late. Apple will probably have a few machines with this processor in it but in the end, it will probably end up in some gaming box. Too bad… Will IBM suffer from not having […]
Sogo
I just went to Google and got some search engine named SOGO. I can’t believe it. I think Google got hacked! Or maybe their dns got hacked. I went to http://google/news and that seemed to work. Blogger is working… I wonder how long it will take to fix? This is weird…