http://www.grokker.com is a site that provides a visual representation of search results. The searches are powered by Yahoo Search.
The search results are grouped, and then elements in site of them can be hilighted, and a preview of the page will be displayed. You can then click on the link to go to the direct page the search has identified.
A person in a recent conference (RTPnet conference) was inquirying about the future of IE; when it was recommended that Firefox be used to avoid the various exploits due to the “active x” support in IE.
The following article highlights the fact that Tabbed browsing will come, and also references an blog regarding IE development.
As we played last night, my daughter found a “ring” and decided that she should have a “nose ring”.
We then played, “toro toro” as she acted as a Bull.
Kids have such wonderful imaginations:
I attended the 6th Annual RTPnet conference. The conference caters to non-profit organizations, community technology centers, vendors providing solutions for these groups, and discussions and networking of agencies and IT professionals.
The conference split the workshops into three topics, and I attended a workshop from each of the topics::
Technology Volunteer: What do we need: volunteer, consultant, or staff?
Technology Infrastructure: Creating a technology plan
Technology Innovation: An Introduction to blogging and podcasting
The first session provided insight in making the decision of what type of “person” you might need for the job. A matrix and other information was provided to assist in this decision making process.
The technology plan session went into depth of things “not to overlook”, as well as the value of a technical plan committee. Some of the major things discussed in the “not to overlook” category were backups, restoration (testing backups), emergency funds in case you have to hire an consultant or other expert, maintenance (what happens after the technology is deployed), and finally how are things going to be supported.
Of the three, I enjoyed the “innovation” topic of blogging and podcasting the most. The presenters Ruby Sinreich of Lotus Media and Brian Russell of AudioActivism.org, provided a gentle and understanding introduction to the topics.
The use of aggergators such as http://www.bloglines.com was discussed briefly to help manage, reading a large number of blogs.
Brian actually did a brief illustration of “interviewing”, and taking the audio from a voice record and uploading it directly to the computer to be used as a “podcast”.
Wikipedia has a general definition of blog/weblog and podcasting, if you are not familiar with the technology/term.
Jim Buie was in attendance of the conference as well, and was actually blogging during the event.
Time to update software.
phpBB has been upgraded to 2.0.15
wordpress has been upgraded to 1.5.1
At least one knows with open source, that bugs are being fixed 
With all the press about the available exploit against the Firefox browser, the mozilla team has released an update.
Visit mozilla.org to download the latest version