I’m just starting to use XOBNI …. looks like a real winner

FYI, XOBNI is “inbox” spelled backwards.

Check it out

One of my favorite “forwarded” emails from a long time ago.  Enjoy.
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May 30th: Just moved to Arizona. Now this is a state that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! It is beautiful. I’ve finally found my home. I love it here. Read more »

Is it finally time to take control of your finances and start planning for the retirement that is starting to loom no-so-far in the distance?

Start here. Some great information about saving for retirement, getting out of debt, tracking your expenses and joining a Money Club. A great place for anyone to wanting to get a handle on their  financial freedom and retirement planning. So, get a moving! The first step is always the most difficult.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Nick Galvin
January 1, 2008

Think back to the days before the network we call the internet existed. Think back to a world before “google” became a verb, before a user-generated encyclopedia called Wikipedia replaced Britannica and before eBay turned the planet into one big garage sale.

It’s easy to forget that as little as a decade ago all these innovations that are part of daily life had yet to be dreamed of. The effect can scarcely be overstated and there appears to be no slowing in the number of new ways that are being invented to use this new connectedness. Read more »

By Michael Miller Article is provided courtesy of Que.

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YouTube is one of the hottest sites on the Web. YouTube 4 You author Michael Miller shares ten tips and tricks to help you better view and share YouTube videos.

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YouTube is a video-sharing site that lets users upload and view all sorts of video clips online. The site has become a repository for literally millions of movie and TV clips, music videos, home videos, and video blogs. But there’s more to YouTube than just clicking the Play button, as evidenced by these ten fun and useful tips and tricks. Read more »

From Joomla.org
Download Joomla 1.5

It is with great pride that the Joomla! community announces to the world the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5 Stable [Khepri]. As a community of contributors, we have been through celebrations and tribulations. We have had fun, and we have worked hard. We have learned from and helped one another. What started two and a half years ago with a letter to the community has grown into a great opportunity for both the Joomla! project and community to benefit from these efforts and to consider our future.

As an application, Joomla! 1.5 boasts remarkable advances over Joomla! 1.0 in the areas of extensibility, usability and internationalization. Building extensions is vastly easier and faster because of the comprehensive new API. The simplified user interface eliminates unnecessary clicks and context changes for site administrators and managers. Support for extended character sets, right to left languages, and translation of all static text in the front end and the administrator allows enhanced internationalization and worldwide use. New options for use of layout overrides and template parameters give designers total control over the look and feel of sites.

While this release marks a major milestone in our history, it also marks a new beginning. The next phase offers the opportunity to bring together the code created, lessons learned, and momentum gained, to build something truly great. It took us tens of thousands of hours, thousands of revisions, and hundreds of people to get to this point. It has been a remarkable journey filled with fun, discovery, and enlightenment where everyone has something to offer and anyone can contribute. Come join in.

A friend pointed out to me that I had not made a new post to my blog since … well, a long time ago … I think the Whigs still held a majority in congress.

The incongruous “current” post about San Diego wildfires caused him to have a TIVO moment — an out-of-timeline experience. His first reaction was … are they having NEW fires? Fortunately NOT.

It would be easy to blame it on the writer’s strike but what happened is that I accidentally hit the pause button … but all is well now. I’ve fast-forwarded through Christmas and New Year’s Eve, deleted “It’s a Wonderful Life” and the Rose Parade as well as 22 Oprah shows (my wife), 92 reruns of Hannah Montana (my daughter) and 114 hours of news programs (mine).

Previews for 2008 look exciting (don’t they always?) so check you local listing for upcoming programs!

It has been one heck of a week for all of us in San Diego — and a good time to learn lessons and be better prepared if/when we are faced with another wild-fire crisis or similar situation.

I’m refining the “must take” items I took during evacuation and, although I already have most of my critical information backed up online, I am filling in blanks that I became aware of.

I also registered my cell phone number with the city and county reverse-911 systems (you can do both)

City of San Diego Reverse 911® Emergency Notification System
Cellular or Voice over IP (VoIP) phone numbers are not currently in the system database. If you would like to be contacted on your cell or VoIP phone, you must register those phone numbers.
Register with City of San Diego Reverse 911 system

County of San Diego Cell Phone Registry for Emergency Notification
Alert San Diego, San Diego County’s mass notification system, provides notification to your cell phone on emergency information regarding evacuations, etc. This is in addition to the landline calls received by those that have landline phones. If you have registered on the City of San Diego’s Reverse 9-1-1 system, you may also register with Alert San Diego.
Register with San Diego County Reverse 911 system

A client of mine was having trouble with choppy web audio/video (streaming Flash) when viewing from their office computers.

Long story short, the culprit turned out to be their Internet connectivity –an expensive, legacy fractional T1 plan that was overpriced and underperforming.

We identified the problem using this great, free tool:
SpeedTest.net