Now we can add yet another item to the "wish I'd thought of that" list. A company called RAZZ is offering bloggers the ability to place voice recordings (with mixed in background effects) to use on blogs, MySpace, and pretty much any web page. The flash-based RAZZ player gets embedded on a web page, and can either play from some pre-recorded messages on the company's website, or you can record and mix your own. This definitely has potential! (more…)

I recently decided to sell my 65 gallon saltwater aquarium. The first thought that came to mind was to use the classifieds section of the local saltwater hobbyist forum that I'm a member of.

On a whim, I also thought I'd post the identical ad on Craigslist, and see which performs better. Intuitively I expected a much higher response from the marine aquarists' forums.

Surprisingly, here are the results: the ad has been on the forum for almost 4 months. I've received 3 replies via the forum, and 2 emails. The ad has been on Craigslist for about 12 hours now, and I've received 3 emails already! Perhaps it's just a matter of the greater traffic beating out the highly targeted in my case…

For the longest time, there has been a wide chasm between Firefox and IE. At its inception, Firefox was able to capitalize on many of the features and functionality missing from the lethargic yet ubiquitous IE. Microsoft woke up, and implemented many of those features in their latest release; IE 7. Firefox of course was not be outdone, and has released version 2.0, with some significant improvements to previous releases.

Now that I've downloaded and run both, I'm in a position to make (and share) an informed opinion. (more…)

After much deliberation, I finally took the plunge yesterday, and bought myself a MacBook! The much anticipated announcement yesterday of the upgraded Core 2 Duo processors left me hanging, as only the Pro line were upgraded. It could be at least a month until the MacBook line are updated, and possibly even as far out as January. Not only that, but I want to buy a re-certified laptop to save the money, and I can't imagine any of the new models will be re-certified for many more months. So I decided to go ahead with the purchase now. Besides, if I want to upgrade down the road, I can always sell the one I have!

If you try to access Apple's online store, you get the message: We are busy updating the store for you and will be back shortly. This can mean only one thing, THE NEW MACBOOKS ARE ON THEIR WAY!

Update: the store is now live, and only the MacBook Pro line have been updated. That stinks, I want the MacBook.