BTW, I’ve been on a business trip to Langley Research Center this week, hence my absence. Sorry… heading home now though… have a good weekend!
P.S. I got to fly a Boeing 757 and try to land it. That is hard to do!
There’s something interesting going on over at There’s something interesting going on over at one of my daily haunts for keeping up with the everchanging world of IT.
I really like the administrator of the site (Digital Dave) and by and large the site has been a fun resource. Some of the less advanced Windows users hang out on there and they do get help. However, an interesting thing has started to occur over there.
Mac Mojo : a love letter to Entourage
A Microsoftie in the MacBU has crafted the above article on MSDN, where she describes her love for the PIM creme-de-la-creme (cough) Entourage.
It would be nice if the MacBU would stop patting themselves on the back for the useless My Day application and spend their time on application compatibility in a mixed environment with Outlook and Entourage.
Sadly though, they aren’t doing much in that area.
So finally, it looks like the Evolution team is sitting up and paying attention about their buggy code. Evolution 2.10.1 on Feisty Fawn actually works without issue so far. It’s laggy, but it works even against our monster of a mail system. I’m impressed.
GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative
So this was GNOME’s big announcement today. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this. I suppose that if GNOME is getting the industry behind their desktop initiative enough to get some wider open source adoption, that’s a good thing. However, I have mixed feelings whenever I read about the GNOME folks getting their fingers in other pies when they still release some seriously buggy shit. I often feel that they should step back, hunker down, and really spend some quality time with their source before opening up other rabbit holes.
“It would be great if we could say to the whale, Say “ahhh” and stick your tongue out”… classic!
Okie, I took a cue from Jennifer and changed the permalinks. She’s right – I should fix it before it gets out of control.
If you linked to this site, please note that the /index.php/ stuff has been removed from my permalinks.
I made some decisions on conversions for Galaxycow (as you’ll see if you visited /blogs or some of the other blogs that haven’t reimported yet).
The biggest decision was changing from multiple disparate WordPress installs to a single WordPressMU install.
HOWEVER, I have discovered that my old permalinks used the screwy /index.php/ workaround to get you to a page. Looking over at Aqua’s blog, I discovered the old permalinks were that way… and this blog wanted to get rid of that. I’ve put the /index.php/ silliness back in to avoid breaking links to this site. Oh well.
So, I’ve decided Drupal just isn’t the way to go on the home page of Galaxycow.
I’m considering a “backpedal” of sorts and going with just something like RapidWeaver to create the website and maintain the podcasts, but it presents a bit of a problem. If I choose to open a forum or whatnot later on down the line, then that’s Yet Another Disparate Database. The WordPress blogs linked in from here are on their own separate databases and so would the forum. You’d be registering multiple times for this website.
Some of you who may be hitting the front page of Galaxycow (www.galaxycow.com) may have noticed that there’s a basic site up there with the ability to register. This shouldn’t surprise you.
I’ve been wanting to grow Galaxycow for some time, but I didn’t have a focus. I’m starting to develop one based around the ideas of several podcasts and a blogging/forum community for just about anything and everything. However, one thing that is set up right now that I do not like is the separate blogs.
