Archive for July, 2006



Recently, Netscape decided to launch a competing website aimed squarely at Digg, one of many “social bookmarking” websites that rely solely on user-submitted items to deliver content. This blog post by ZDNet takes a look into just how much each user of these social networking sites is worth.
While traffic and usage numbers have grown […]

In southern Alabama, yellow jacket nests have been found that have engulfed entire cars, containing as much as 100,000 workers and multiple queens:
The largest nest Ray has inspected this year filled the interior of a weathered 1955 Chevrolet parked in a rural Elmore County barn. That nest was about the size of a tire in […]

Firstly, sorry for not updating this blog in fifteen days.  I have been dealing with some personal issues lately, and I have not been in a mood to write about anything other than those personal issues, which I would like to keep this particular blog free of.
However, I do feel about writing about the recent […]

A thought just occured to me.  In Windows Vista’s new Aero user interface (UI), all of the window titlebars and borders are translucent, and by default are a shade of silver, but can be changed to any color.  However, the taskbar and the start menu have a black color scheme.  No other part of the […]