Five Acres with a View

Google celebrates the invention of the laser.

Google has a special Mother’s Day Logo.

Make Link is a Firefox add-on that allows you to copy links in a variety of formats, including those you specify yourself.

It was 30 years ago this Saturday that users of Arpanet, a U.S. government-designed precursor to the Internet, logged onto their accounts to find what is considered the first piece of unsolicited commercial e-mail ever sent.

On Spam’s Birthday, Three Cheers for ‘Delete’ - washingtonpost.com

Created on April 16, 2008.

Kaleidoscope is fun drawing toy that requires a fairly up to date browser.

I have had almost no personal experience of Windows Vista, and having watched my manager struggle with it on her laptop, I am quite content to keep it that way. Randall C Kennedy of InfoWorld decided to compare Vista versus XP and Windows 2000 on the same hardware and produced this chart.

Not only is Vista and Office 2007 the most bloated desktop software stack ever to emerge from Redmond, its system requirements are so out of proportion with recent hardware trends that only the latest and greatest from Intel or AMD can support its epically porcine girth.

Read the complete article.

I’ve made a change to ljxp to work with Wordpress 2.5 according to these instructions.

In the default install of Firefox, new tab open at the end of the list of tabs.  The Tabs Open Relative :: Add-ons changes this behavior, so that the new tab opens after the current one.  I strongly prefer this behavior, and really miss it when I use a version of Firefox without it.

…Mandigo.

Here is a useful link: Down for everyone or just me? When you go there, it will tell you if a site is down for everyone or just you. (via Download Squad)