A Bit of This and That Blog

I have heard of software that certain social networking sites are built upon, one of them being Ruby on Rails.
So far, two social networking sites, twitter.com and tribe.com have Ruby on Rails as their platform - and both sites continually crash, are down for “maintenance” or simply do not work, or are very slow.
Needless to [...]

I recently read a rant by someone on MySpace regarding how fake online friends are, or, as they put it, how they are only interested in increasing their friends list. Of course!
I tend to use the term ‘friend’ not so loosely. There is a difference between a friend, and an acquaintance - now this isn’t [...]

Finally, one of the top spammers in the world has been nailed! I am so sick of clearing out spam and getting the same crap everyday from different e-mail addresses and such.
But at least there seems to be some progress. Read on…
Courtesy of Yahoo!
SEATTLE - A 27-year-old man described as one of the world’s most [...]

Open Source software has become more popular and more readily available than ever before. Open Source software is free and public software that has only one requirement - share and make available any code changes.
Now, in order to maintain his monopoly, Bill Gates of Microsoft fame is claiming that the free open source software is [...]

Who out there owns an iPod? I have never seen the need to own one - until I won an iPod (already out of date) in a raffle. Then, I started to use it and download music. Woah.
Ok, so I love music, and why didn’t I get one before? Partially because they are so freakin’ [...]

This is going to be a test…a test to see who remembers The Electric Light Orchestra! Oh…and to see if us old people are out there…yep…I am dating some of you!
I recently found a couple of CD’s of ELO to put on my iPod and it really brings back memories! They have been my favorite [...]