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The Catch Up

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When you spend hours laying around unable to move one thing you do manage to do is catch up on the tech world. With that, here are some of the neatest things I’ve been following in tech lately:

  • Check out MaximumPC’s Top 50 Web Sites list. You’ll find some of my favorite daily clicks including Wunderground.com, DrinkHacker, and What The Font.
  • If you’re as confused as me about the whole FaceBook Farmville and Vampire sim thing, there still may still be online multi-player gaming hope yet for the nerd community as a whole– Civilization is coming to FaceBook by 2010!
  • Remember a few days back I told you about Verizon’s new Droid phone and how both open availability of both the Moto Sholes hardware and the Android OS itself could lead to other things? Word is Dell is working on a mobile Android hand held of its own right now.
  • The US FCC Commission has unanimously declared Net Neutrality as a top mandate in regulation for online access and that is great news for consumers as a whole.
  • If you’re into on the go computing like me, be sure to check out Portable Apps. They rock!
  • The BK Windows 7 Whopper is amazing, but only sold in Japan.
  • Kudos to the US Executive Branch IT team for moving the White House site over to an open source CMS saving all tax payers money and developers’ time. Excellent job!
  • R.I.P. to GeoCities. Your wealth of poorly designed sites may have not been much to brag about, but being the first to offer the masses free web space is not only notable, but changed the way web content hosting would forever be offered to the residential market as a whole. There would be no MySpace, AOL, or Facebook had there been no GeoCities.
  • At the end of this month, Ubuntu’s latest OS (9.10) will be released. Looks slick. Why would I pay for an OS again? Windows who? iPhone what?

Right arm is still sore and 95% unusable, but the intense pain has died down. Able to take a sponge bath, which is nice. You forget how much you take simple pleasures like bathing until you can’t do them.

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The Long Road Back

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We’re out of Alpha on the web site and into public Beta, which is a good thing. Mostly because now the majority of you can see the site. The longest delay point in the project has been working on some blogging features that are taking way too long in development. I’m shifting forward though on the main site and focusing on restoring the previous areas. If you see something broken feel free to drop me a line and I’ll tackle it from there, but at this point about 60% of the site is running the way it should be. The next major phase is rebuilding the Albums section and shortly there after restoring Pirate Radio to its webcasting availability. Expect an update when we hit that milestone.

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Classic DF – A BIT OF TIME TO CATCH YOUR BREATHE.

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treeDigitalflood Pirate Radio will be on hiatus for the next few weeks. This was not an easy decision for me to make, but due to the continued frantic pace that my professional and personal life continues to move at something has to give. That something is the weekly upkeep of the show. I have become very busy over the past several weeks, but please understand this is by no means a bad thing. As work and home needs more attention I simply cannot keep up with my hobby at this time. By giving up the show for a bit though this will allow me to focus more on important things like my daughter, family, and friends. In the end, as I said before, this is a good thing. It gives me a chance to recharge. Perhaps a chance to refocus. Then, when time allots itself, we shall give it another go and continue where we left off. In the meantime, over the coming weeks, I will be reposting some classic episodes so you can catch up. As always, I thank you for listening and checking in. Please be sure to do so and continue to follow my other projects.

Thanks for the memories,

Chris Welch

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