Category Archives: Rants

Outlook 2007 Dropping IE for Word Rendering Engine

For years, Microsoft has used Internet Explorer to render HTML-based mail in Outlook. That’s all about to change with Outlook 2007. In an effort to increase security, Outlook 2007 will now be using Microsoft Word for HTML rendering. This change means Outlook users will no longer be vulnerable to the exploits that IE suffers from. [...]

Apple Takes the Mac Out of This Year’s Macworld Keynote

This year’s Macworld keynote was, well, different. With rumors flying left and right and the next generation of operating systems right around the corner, this keynote had the potential to be the biggest of them all. Now that they keynote is over, I feel a little disappointed. Not one product I can run out and [...]

Bloglines Has Stopped Updating Feeds

Is Bloglines working for anyone right now? For the past two days Bloglines has completely sucked at updating my feeds. I’ll check Bloglines after a few hours and none of my feeds have updated. Hard to believe since I have feeds like Digg which is updated almost every hour. Over the past two days, I [...]

Waiting in Line for PS3 Worth It?

Sometimes I’m just amazed by people. Who in their right mind would wait in line for days to purchase a PS3? Apparently crazy people who hire homeless people, start riots, or subject themselves to robbery.
All that for what? A chance at buying a PS3. You’re not even guaranteed the system. Sure, if you score one [...]

Digg Growing Pains, Part II

As you may remember, I used to have a problem with Digg. At one point I stopped going to Digg for a while, but then things changed and I returned. While I wish I could say things have been fine since then, I can’t. Digg has reached yet another growing pain.
This time it has to [...]