2005
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By Robin Monks on December 31, 2005
I think Christ Messina finally did one interview too many…yup…he’s lost his marbles. (sub-link) Of course, this was predicted months ago when he became the official “hand waver” at CivicSpace Technorati Tags: Flock, ChrisMessina, Messina, off-the-deep-end Note: The typo in Chris’ name was completely unintentional…mabey the craziness is catching?
Posted in Gossip | Tagged Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird |
By Robin Monks on December 31, 2005
The Guardian has posted a story about gene-enhanced weeds that are resistant to herbicide (although the short description on the article says “pesticide”, which is noticibly wrong) poses another question, gene-enhanced bugs, or anything. Government testing of genetics editing is obvousily out of control, I’m not a “sky is falling” kind of person, but this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized |
By Robin Monks on December 24, 2005
It seems the perfect gift this Christmas is gossip. Poor Opera has been rumored to be bought so many times to be humorus. Like this quote from OperaWatch: Given the recent surge in acquisition rumors (first Google, and now Microsoft), I thought it would be nice to see which company Opera Watch readers think will [...]
Posted in Gossip | Tagged Opera |
By Robin Monks on December 20, 2005
Dell, one of the largest PC makers, has begun to put Firefox on their UK PCs. The Inquirer posted a article suggesting it might be true, which was later confirmed by Blake Ross, with a promise of more information later on. (See also: Netscape on HP) This could further push consumers away from Microsoft products, [...]
| Tagged Microsoft, Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird |
By Robin Monks on December 16, 2005
Remember my post yesterday with the opera->google rumors (1,2)? Well, it looks the the gossip has gone even further. As I predicted, the ““I want to get slashdotted
Posted in Gossip, Writings | Tagged Google, Opera |
By Robin Monks on December 15, 2005
The web is full of mixed up messes and messages. Take this story from the highly gossipy techwhack (who might deserve a wack), and the counter story from the countering Opera Watchers. It demonstrates just how far people will go just to get some publicity. The “I want to get slashdotted” syndrome. Seen some more [...]
Posted in Gossip | Tagged Google, Opera |
By Robin Monks on November 30, 2005
Lots, and lots and lots and lots of news about the new Firefox 1.5, but they all boil down to one thing…. GET IT!!! But wait! Don’t go to mozilla.org quite yet! The older Firefox’s can update themselves remember . Just go into Tools -> Options… and look under the updates stuff. You’ll find a [...]
| Tagged Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird |
By Robin Monks on November 28, 2005
Come and get it while it’s hot!
Posted in Free Software Magazine, Writings |
By Robin Monks on November 23, 2005
Ad-supported applications: just say no by ZDNet‘s Phil Wainewright — The CEOs of NetSuite, WebSideStory and WebEx all agree with the majority of TalkBack posters — ad-funded on-demand business applications make no sense at all. Sounds like Microsoft would have some opposition to it’s plans….again. Really, who would think a business would want it’s work [...]
| Tagged Microsoft |
By Robin Monks on November 23, 2005
Anyone that’s heard the hype (C|Net, eWeek, BetaNews), or read the sepc on Microsoft’s “Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML”, aka. SSE, will realize that it also adds lots of complexity to RSS.The real question is, why RSS? Microsoft’s “extension” is more like a whole new XML beast than RSS. Why? Publicity. RSS is [...]
Posted in Email and RSS, Standards | Tagged Microsoft |
