Is It Possible To Be Happy?

Yes, as is revealed at Is It Pos­si­ble To Be Happy?

  • Don’t fear god
  • Don’t worry about death
  • What is good is easy to get
  • What is ter­ri­ble is easy to endure.
 

Twenty not Two-Thousand

In case you were won­der­ing, the cor­rect way to say the year that starts tomor­row is “Twenty Ten”. At least, that’s what the peo­ple at twentynot2000.com believe. I guess I agree. They seem overly con­cerned that we will be stuck lis­ten­ing to peo­ple say the cur­rent year the wrong way for the next 89 years.

Hitch your wagon to a star, folks.

What do you think?

 

Resurrection: Geekamongus.com

I decided to res­ur­rect my old Geekamongus.com site. Instead of fill­ing this per­sonal site with loads of tech­ni­cal blog posts no one cares about, I thought I’d ded­i­cate a site to com­put­ers, the Inter­net, secu­rity, and any­thing else geeky. It made sense to use Geekamongus.com to do this.

So, look for­ward to more posts about per­sonal things and what­ever I’m think­ing about here, and head to Geekamongus.com for the geeky stuff.

I intend to keep the new site on a ‘lay per­son’ level, pro­vid­ing arti­cles to help peo­ple with com­put­ers and the Inter­net. I fig­ure there are a lot of peo­ple who could use free advice, and it makes it ful­fill­ing to think I might be help­ing someone.

So go tell your friends!

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I can’t count how many times I’ve heard peo­ple laugh about how Al Gore said he cre­ated the Inter­net.  Not that I’m stick­ing up for him or any­thing, but he never really claimed to have invented the Inter­net, so it irks me when peo­ple per­pet­u­ate that myth.

As this cool Neatorama arti­cle enti­tled 10 Things You Should Know About the Inter­net explains, Gore actu­ally had a hand in help­ing to leg­is­late ini­tia­tives that allowed the Inter­net to pro­lif­er­ate, though he never claimed to have invented it.  The arti­cle is well worth the read, as it explains a bunch of neato things that you should know about the “infor­ma­tion super­high­way” (a term that Gore actu­ally <em>did</em> invent).

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Thingitudes

Some ran­dom good­ness to fill up your Sun­day afternoon.

Ever won­dered what this RSS stuff is all about? Ven­ture over to Mashable’s “Ulti­mate RSS Tool­box”, then learn how to keep tabs on just about any­thing on the Inter­net as it happens.

And speak­ing of get­ting orga­nized, I’ve been toy­ing with Essen­tial PIM the last week or so, and have found it work­ing itself into my daily work­flow. Even the free ver­sion is very robust, but I’m con­sid­er­ing a pur­chase of the ver­sion that will let me run it off a USB drive.

I was pleased to find out that Sitescore thinks rel­a­tively well of this web site. Plug in your URL to see what might be keep­ing you from reach­ing as many peo­ple as possible.

If you find your­self with a nag­ging itch to play video games, then you must visit 100 of the Best Legal Free Full Ver­sion Games You Can Down­load Online.

Sim­ple Spark is a nicely orga­nized cat­a­log of online web appli­ca­tions, rang­ing from free to sub­scrip­tion. It is easy to find an appli­ca­tion to help you do any­thing from word pro­cess­ing to account­ing to chat­ting with friends. Pretty slick in and of itself, and it leads you to all the fresh Web2.0 good­ness (or crap­pi­ness, depend­ing on your point of view).

Enjoy.

 

Links and News

Accord­ing to W3Counter, which main­tains a pretty good cross sam­pling of web site users (from what I’ve hear, any­way), the use of Fire­fox for web surf­ing has risen to an impres­sive 25%. That is so great to hear, as Inter­net Explorer is and con­tin­ues to be the bane of web devel­op­ers and design­ers every­where. Good rid­dence, another 10% of IE users!

I have long been a scav­enger for the best deals on items I am seek­ing to pur­chase. I was pleased to find one tool that encom­passes many of the bargain-hunter sites I am used to vis­it­ing. Before you buy any­thing online, be sure to stop at Dealighted.com!

I dis­cov­ered an excel­lent stream­ing radio sta­tion at pigradio.com. They play a delectible sam­pling of alter­na­tive and indie music. If you are into that sort of thing, then check it out.

More to come…