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A good while back I tossed a post up here about the fact that I thought Google would be releasing a browser. It ended up on the front page of lockergnome and then link swarm picked it up as well. In a matter of a few hours, my server went up in a plum of smoke. Fortunately, It was down only briefly as my host was nice enough to reset my bandwidth for the month.

At the time I was actually pretty much certain the the browser was just the first step. Others, even Scoble, thought the idea that Google would release a browser was ridiculous, yet alone an OS!... I guess the reserving of gbrowser.com was just to thwart the domain squatters or maybe a smoke screen.

Hmmm. Seems hindsight truely is the only perfect vision. Seriously though, I think it is kinda kewl that we are going to get a sneak peak at Google Chrome OS today. Least that is what this Tech Crunch Article says. Personally, I am pretty hooked on Chrome as my browser at the moment.

Previous to Chrome, I was a die hard FF fan, and I still use FF on my Linux machines, especially on my Atom CPU and my dual Core machine. I do, still use FF.

FF, for me, was always about the extensions. Then there were more and more extensions... Then it ran like bloatware... Now, I have not gotten around to playing with any Google Chrome extensions as of yet but the large browser area, combined search and address bar and super clean look have serious appeal to the minimalist in me. Google Reader, is better for me in Chrome, not that that should shock us.

The rumor mill is buzzing about it being geared for netbooks (like this little Eee1000 I have?) and a lotta hoopla about "speed and efficiency"... Now why the heck is there now hoopla about exactly where to go today for this sneak peak.. Come on someone clue me in on where to see just a little snippet And Google don't wait till 2010, be a good Santa and release it before Christmas!!

Good Day Readers,
I seem to have many many links that i wish to share and they are stacking up quickly. I thought I would reduce the list by simply doing a few quick and dirty posts.

• Topping the list is an important reminder from the DogReader over at Lockergnome. It seems that about half the surfers out there are at risk because of security flaws in thier browsers
• Alex over at the same super blog notes that the ValueSoft package of Ubuntu Linux is, more or less, a simply paying for something that is free
• This falls under "you gotta be kidding me" category. Some drunk decided to join a team of firemen!
• Over at Furl Dog I discovered that these missile photos may have well been poorly doctored. This however, was noticed only after> many major newspapers published the photos.
• Over at AdRant, they point out why translation is still best left to humans and not software.

I found this via my My delicious Network. Not only is it furniture but functional.. Thought it was worth a quick post.

Certain things can happen to anyone, other things only happen to me. Is my Google Reader angry because I am trying FeedDeamon 2.6?

Two days ago, I was rading my feeds with Google Reader. Check out the summary for this head line. This hiccup was gone by the time I came returned from work. It effected not all the feed but only a few. The headlines and summaries are scrambled up. I had no luck figuring out where the summarries actually belonged. The headlines go to the relevant post. Is anyone else having this problem? Does anyone have any explanations?

I thought it might have been a little glitch or such. I tried refresh and restarting the browser but nada. The issue remained for the same feeds. I have been using Google Reader for a good while now and have never noticed this before. Other than both summaries having a spelling error or typo, I see nothing in common between them. Has it been doing this to a few feeds right along and I have never noticed?

2007 was a year that was less than kind to me. I was ill and posted little. I thought I might take a moment to clean out my rather large starred items folder (683 items to be exact) in Google Reader. In the process I thought it might be a good time to create another list of links. Old links, nonetheless, but that allows me to be more selective.

• Number one on this list happened on day scant of a week before I was born. Nonetheless, the 100 greatest music events in history, certainly changed my life. Although, I don't know if I would put the "nipplegate" incident on this list.
• Having already given away my age, I can now also confess to remembering the total kewlness of easter eggs in the Atari 2600 games. Did you know they are in linux as well?
• Wanna put your favorite gadgeteer to shame by showing him or her up with a really neat gadget? This knife will do that. (I hope it comes with a crowbar to pry my wallet open; the 499 dollar price tag is gonna need it.)
• My ToDo list just got longer by 40, I must check out Top 40 Linux Blogs.
• Even though I am a Ubuntu lover, this is a well written How To on Suse deserves a mention here.

There is more if you wish to read on...

I am in love. Not the typical, usual, I "met her at the club and she swept me off my feet" love. No this was far from that. I have seen this apple of my eye around for a long while. I thought nothing of her at first. However, for many a years I kept hearing about her.

I heard good things, like she moves very fast and does not demand much and she, amazingly given the subject matter, is very stable. I heard about her often enough to keep looking her up once in a while. Each time I "checked her out" she looked good, usually somewhat different but always more appealing than before. Each time I yearned though I had to flee. I'm shamed to admit, she still wasn't "easy" enough for me.

I know I shouldn't have been afraid. There were times when I made attempts to conquer her by putting forth an effort. I always ended up aborting and quiting because I could not get her to perform as I wished. Too much work... I wanted effortlessly Easy. Rather than digging in and trying harder at what I could master and for free, I found it easier to spend hard earned money to achieve the performance I desired.

Some of these links are not from this week but the week before. I still thought them of merit. It is very likely that you will not see a post here for a week or so. I must deal with some tweaks on the server side. Too much to write and too little time.