I'm very excited by the experimental Mozilla project, Ubiquity. It's absolutely the next step the web needs to take and is by far one of the most powerful things I've seen to date on manipulating browser content. I have long been a fan of Greasemonkey and I love the ability that it gives me to view the web as I want to see it, augmenting sites when they don't quite give the uses that one wants. Ubiquity augments this ability by making it easy to join sites together. The ability for individual mashups is endless and probably the most exciting aspect of this new technology. And, since it's open source I can contribute back. I've put up a ubiquity page for new scripts and ideas that I come up with. Hello world is there for now, so I'm hoping to add more in the near future. A quick introduction into what Ubiquity can do for you is here.

I've often wondered why more sites don't take advantage of language preferences defined in web browsers. One site that I noticed recently, but not the only culprit, has an impressive array of languages in which documents have been translated. This landing page could be generally avoided by using the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANG passed by almost any web browser of recent date (last 10 years). So, I think it's impressive to see how many languages are available, but I think it would be less overwhelming if the site was easier to use. I can always click on a link to see how magnificent the work is at another time.

Yeah, you are. I signed up for Proquo.com and I think I have less junk mail because of them - and maybe not.

I just believe that I am getting less junk mail and want to plug this as a good service - i like how they helped me manage junk mail I receive and made it easy to opt out of things that require sending in forms or other documents.

I think it's services like this that help consumers and since I am one I'm for it.

How can I concentrate with this going on outside my window?

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I have been thinking a lot about loving what you do. I wonder sometimes if people just do things because of a paycheck or if they do it because they really love doing it. I think it's impossible to love what you do without succeeding at it (probably part of the reason you love it). I also think it's hard to really do your best at something if you don't truly love it. Is it possible to learn to love something and is it immaturity if you can't learn to have that love?

Working in technology sometimes I've had the great fun of working with time and manipulating it for various time zones. After thinking through this one time I wondered why we can't just go to UTC for all our time?

Pros:

1. One time everywhere in the world
2. No changing clocks each spring and fall for Daylight Saving Time, we'd just get up a little earlier or go to bed later.
3. Programmers wouldn't have to write as much complex time conversion code.

Cons:

1. People would have to figure out the new time.
2. Programmers wouldn't have anything to do.
3. Countries would need to be convinced it would be worth the switch.

I like macs and I like visiting stores that sell macs so I can check out the latest gadgets and overpriced mac toys. Expercom is a store that sells macs and mac accessories, but you wouldn't know it by the name. In fact, I only know about the store because of a friend that knew about them before the Apple store set up shop. I think they could get a lot more business with a name change. Mactopia? AppleMania? BSD Killerz? Maybe not that last one. Good luck ExperCom.

Yeah, I guess I'm sort of welcoming myself back into the blogging world. I really never left, but this site has been rather dead for a while. I've been blogging just under different accounts. I'll start updating here more regularly so I can keep my mind active and just share a little bit of what I learn as I go through life. I'll try and keep you posted as to how things are going. Cheers to the future.