The Internet - critical mass?

• February 9, 2006
• James Skemp

Having moved from items written in January of 2006, to items written in late-2005, then to 2001, and then back to mid-2005, I have realized for myself what many have already realized. There's a problem with the Internet.

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OpenOffice is still a processing hog

• February 7, 2006
• James Skemp

I like OpenOffice, I do. I think that OpenOffice is where things are heading in the future.

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.1

• February 5, 2006
• James Skemp

I just upgraded WordPress from 2.0 to 2.0.1.  If you see anything unusual, let me know.  I've also updated from Subscribe2 2.2 to 2.2.1, so if there's anything weird there either, let me know.

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January 2006 browser statistics

• February 1, 2006
• James Skemp

In January, looking at the number of pages that were viewed, around 63% of visitors used Internet Explorer to access a page on the StrivingLife.net Network, while 26% used Firefox.  After that, about 3.5% used Safari, followed by 2.9% using Mozilla and 2.2% using Opera.  Netscape?  1.4%. Of course, the Firefox numbers give it away pretty well - we cater to a more technologically literate group than the Internet as a whole.

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ColdFusion MX 7 - Developer's Edition

• January 27, 2006
• James Skemp

So. I took the next step and downloaded, and installed, ColdFusion MX 7.01, Developer's Edition, on my home computer. (I also picked up another 512 MB of memory from Crucial.com, but that's another story.)

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Without a Net

• January 25, 2006
• James Skemp

Without a Net - The Internet is vulnerable to viruses so lethal that they could gravely damage the online world — unless we upgrade law and technology now. By Jonathan Zittrain

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France delivers nuclear threat

• January 20, 2006
• James Skemp

What a headline … Jacques Chirac, France's president, has threatened to use nuclear weapons against any state that supported terrorism against his country or considered using weapons of mass destruction. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e805e2d4-88e6-11da-94a6-0000779e2340.html So, terrorists are everywhere, not contained within set land boundaries. States/governments/masses of people, on the other hand, are/can be. Are you punishing the 'terrorists', or are you punishing the common man in what-so-ever country is determined to be aiding the terrorists, in that some of it's most popular few are assisting?

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Old articles will be coming to this area

• January 10, 2006
• James Skemp

Over the coming months, you'll notice that the size of this area will increase. I'll be adding a number of older articles to this area (articles from http://strivinglife.net/articles/) in the interest of creating both a standard, as well as making articles easier to find. Since they'll be post-dated (new articles will not, of course), they won't be crowding out any current posts.

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The best things come out of Japan

• January 3, 2006
• James Skemp

Since I've received emails with the 'pen computers' twice, and both times in the same day, I had to check this out.

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Don't use ul when you should use blockquote

• January 2, 2006
• James Skemp

I'm sorry, but I hate it when people use <ul> instead of <blockquote>. <ul> is for list items, and should therefore be composed of list items (<li>s). If you're not going to put <li>s for each item within a <ul> block, don't use <ul>

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