Putting in some time at Dad’s office this week, now that I’m Stateside again. Among the many software related issues I’m dealing with, I’m finally upgrading to Firefox 2 (thanks to FrontMotion) and rolling out Thunderbird (thanks to ZettaServe) for the first time. Still not giving out IMAP access, but switching from Outlook or Outlook Express to Thunderbird is a huge step towards easily moving a user to a new machine and brining all their mail along for the ride. Now if I could just get some freaking ADMs so I could automagically configure their email accounts without going over to their machine…
Should have bought a bike
Posted by chetan
on February 08, 2007
I originally decided to hold off on getting a bike since winter was quickly approaching and I hate biking in the cold, but it’s been about as mild a winter here as anywhere else. Even the last few weeks, with a cold wave blowing across the US, it’s been a moderate 40-50F here, with maybe a few flurries mixed in.
Now I realize I should have bought one, even though it would have cost me about US$150-200. There are no walmart style discount shops here, but $200 over 4 months isn’t bad at all. I could easily have gotten $50 of use a month out of it and probably much more than that. Especially on a day like today, when I’m working from home and don’t want to walk 20 minutes into town to get some real food. Not to mention saving money on my commute to the office.
Oh, snap!
Posted by chetan
on February 07, 2007
Looks like Amol discovered Snap Previews. I just don’t see what purpose they serve. A screenshot of a page will never help me decide if the content is interesting. For one thing, fifty percent of the thumbnail is generally useless logos and menus that tell me nothing of value.
The only thing worse than mouseover image popups are those horrendously annoying, double-underlined mouseover ad popups that so many sites are using now.
You call that content management?
Posted by chetan
on February 07, 2007
A large part of my job here at ICAR has been wrestling with various so-called content management systems (CMS). In an effort to build various applications I’ve been evaluating many popular opensource CMS projects and I’ve run into the same basic problem with just about all of them: I don’t want a blog, I want content management. They all claim to be flexible systems with all the latest doodads but in the end, they’re just glorified blogs. Case in point, almost every system sets itself up as a blog out of the box, and, in general, that’s the most complete part of the system. Other areas are sorely lacking.