Author Archives: Steven Hodson

No sour grapes for this new desktop metaphor

May 17, 2008 – 4:08 pm

I like GUI interfaces. For me the commandline is something that is better left off in the arcane past of black screens and blinking cursors. That said I have also maintained that the desktop we utilize today - regardless of the operating system - is basically a dumb idea of pretty little icons placed around [...]

Posted in Miscellaneous, Software |

Who is the sidebar for?

May 17, 2008 – 3:15 pm

The vast majority of blogs out there have a section of the blog called the sidebar. Some will have a single sidebar that can be located on either the left of right side of the main content of the blog. Others might have two or more with the placement of those sidebars either together [...]

Posted in Blogging |

Getting ready to say good-bye to Object Desktop

May 17, 2008 – 1:42 pm

For those of you not familar with Object Desktop from Stardock it is their package of all their different utility programs like WindowBlinds and Iconpackager which are among the tools available allowing you to individualize your desktop. I have been a happy user of WindowBlinds for a long time and I upgraded to Stardock’s [...]

Posted in Software |

A couple of suggestions for the Windows Live Writer team

May 16, 2008 – 11:20 pm

I am an unabashed fan of Windows Live Writer and along with OneNote I think it is one of the best programs Windows has made available in the last few years. For me blogging wouldn’t be as easy or even enjoyable without this gem of a program. Along with all the well written plugins [...]

Posted in Blogging, Software |

The end of the internet is at hand - seriously

May 16, 2008 – 11:00 pm

I know we have sites like LOLcats.com and icanhascheezburger.com and a myriad of other equally goofy sites that have cutesy captions but I think the end of the world is coming - or at least the Internet with the arrival of .. are you ready …. are you sitting down?
I present to you - LOLScobles
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Posted in Internet |

From the Pipeline - 5.16.08

May 16, 2008 – 10:46 pm

I’m sure that just about every blogger - well at least hose that trying hard to be heard above the noise and write good content - has a period where they wonder if all the effort is even worth it. Spirit and confidence can be a fragile thing. In the meantime though here’s a few [...]

Posted in Pipeline |

The slippery slope of free

May 16, 2008 – 9:46 pm

It is human nature - we love getting stuff for free. We love getting free stuff so much that we either don’t see or don’t care about the strings that come attached with all this free stuff. At the center of this freeconomy of course is the ever growing Google with more free products [...]

Posted in Internet |

$1 Billion to fight child pornography

May 16, 2008 – 4:53 pm

Every once in awhile governments do actually come out with something that is totally worth expending billions of dollars and huge amounts of manpower on in order to fix things that are the scourge of our society. Today Dominic Rivera of The Inquisitr (Duncan Riley’s excellent new blog) has a post about how the [...]

Posted in Internet, Miscellaneous |