Say it isn’t so!  After LUGRadio LIVE in the UK, the blokes at LUGRadio are hanging up thier microphones for good.  For details, listen to the latest LUGRadio.

Hey check out my review of the UltraLap SR from ZaReason.

Review: ZaReason UltraLap SR at Gear Diary

I have to say thank God the Ohio Presidential primary is over.  Now I get a few months before it all starts again.  What am I talking about??  ROBO CALLS!

Robo calls are when the candidates in yoru local elections use telemarketing firms to automatically call people to stump for their campaign.  It could be the party itself, the candidate itself or a special intrest group.  They all use this technology.

I, for one, believe most technology is good, but there’s always a way technology can be misused.  Take my beloved Internet, for example.  Many people have ruined families, themselves and even damaged others by their addictions to the internet.  The Internet can be and is used for a aweful lot of good, but it parallels society in that for almost evry good use of it, there’s a bad use too.  However, is this type of technology used in robocalls useful, or needed??   Do we really want our dinner time, our family time or even our sleep invaded by this?

Here in Ohio, the local Democratic party used a telemarketing firm to robo call voters.  Well, the firm they used made a mistake and people were called at glorious times like 2 am!  I assure you if I had received a call like this, I would have NOT voted for the candidate in the phone call.

I personally think enough is enough.  I think we all need these to end, now.   I have HAD IT with Robo calls.  This needs to end.  Now.

Over the weekend, one of my other haunts had a server crash.  It wasn’t the fault of Judie Lipsett, but really it was the hosting provider.  Anyway, Judie decided to move the blog to another host and of course some of the data was lost since the hosting provider didn’t do the backups and it crashed during a manual backup Judie was doing.  Anyway, thanks to Google cache, all of my reviews should be back up sometime tonight.

Thank you Google for providing a web history.

Finally I can post via my cell. The enV makes it pretty easy.

Earlier this week, I joined the Gear Diary team as a full fledged team memeber.  What does that mean for this Blog?  Not much.  What does it mean for reviews?  Well, I will get to do more of them! :D  So I will post links to the reviews here in cast you don’t want to follow the whole Gear Diary site but I suggest you do subscribe to the Gear Diary.  It’s a great site and led by a wonderful lady, Judie Lipsett.  Check it out at: http://www.geardiary.com

I am going to be reviewing a laptop for ZaReason.com. It’s their UltraLapSR. It’s a 13.3 inch laptop with a Core 2 Duo. That’s not unique. What’s really unique is the fact that this laptop as well as all other machines ZaReason sells all run Linux. In fact, none of them have the standard stickers from Microsoft. Even the super key has a Ubuntu logo on it vs a Windows logo. Be looking for the review at Gear Diary.

I discovered Drivel today. It makes it super easy to make blog posts when the bandwidth is at a premium.

How did I find it?? I just was browsing through synaptic and found it. Pretty sweet.

Check out my review of the Recon 400X originally made by Tripod Data systems, and made to run Linux by SDG Systems.

The Recon 400X Review at Gear Diary

Back in 1995, Netscape Navigator was the browser of choice.  Everyone used it.  It was one of the first web browsers that supported javascript as well as inline images.  Everyone used it.  It was the internet in the mid 90’s.  Well, thanks to Microsoft it’s gone.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wrote a excellent article for eWeek that outlines it’s history.

I say, the spirit of Netscape lives on today in Mozilla Firefox.  In fact, Mozilla had it’s roots at Netscape first.  Firefox is now gaining strength over Internet Explorer and it’s now my default browser on ANY OS.

For as much as I live in the browser, it’s funny that there’s only one company that has it’s business solely based on it’s browser.  That would be Opera.  And even Opera is free with the company relying on it’s mobile phone browser to make it money.

Anyway, RIP Netscape…..the Firefox has already risen out of it’s ashes.