A second attempt at podcasting. I promise they won’t be serial like this–soon it’ll be “a podcast about [insert subject here].” =)
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You arrive at work and the first message in your voicemail is from one of your users saying that the webserver is “behaving strangely.” Your first thought is that it’s luser time, but you haven’t read your first ticket yet this morning so you figure you might as well take a leisurely stroll through the [...]

I still have to get the particulars down regarding the podcast format, but I think this was a decent first go at it. I’m using my new iRiver T10 which my wife so graciously purchased for me yesterday during a Black Friday blowout sale at Best Buy.
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So this morning I was greeted by a message from AOL’s system when I booted up Gaim:
AIM added a new AIM Bots group to your Buddy List. Send IMs to moviefone and shoppingbuddy for great holiday flicks and gift ideas. (To remove ‘em, just right-click and delete! Learn More)
I messaged shoppingbuddy and got a menu [...]

If you’ve updated to the bleeding edge release candidate of Firefox, you may notice that a lot of your plugins have been disabled. An article by LiewCF.com posted by Lifehacker.com provides a nice workaround.

At my gym there’s a banner on the wall with the ad slogan: “Think of a personal trainer as a tailor for your body.”
That’s not a bad way to think about it, really. I don’t have my clothes tailored 5 days a week, but if there’s been significant change in my measurements, I’ll have an [...]

This story over at Digital Media Minute got snagged up in my Feed Demon watch for ‘firefox’. It’s a free software called CSS Vista that lets you design CSS while viewing it in a split pane for firefox & IE.

Have you ever forgotten to log off AIM when you left for work in the morning only to be forced to fight for control of your login once you arrived at your desk?
It seems AIM has gotten that sorted out. If you log onto your account more than once, you’ll get a smart message from [...]

There’s nothing quite as maddening as being told by Windows that the file you want to delete is in use, and well, there’s nothing you can do about it. What’s worse is when rebooting your machine won’t release the operating system’s death-grip on the file you so desperately want to eradicate.

Enter: Unlocker by Cedrick Collomb
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Woohoo! Firefox has their first v1.5 release candidate! Of course I backed up my configuration and snapped it up. I’ll let you know how it goes, but I expect good things. Check out their changes page. Pretty exciting stuff!
When I installed, it puked on some of my plugins, but not all of them. Of those [...]