Sirius Stuff

As a native Portlander, there’s a little bit of a thrill every time the Rose Festival starts. Every June, it’s a celebration of living in Portland.
There are 3 parades but the Grand Floral Parade is the big one. It’s a Portland tradition that people tape out space on the sidewalk to sit or […]

I love how easy FireFox makes it to enter passwords and forget them.  But sometimes it turns out to be a problem when I need to remember them.  Like when I’m using a different computer or want to change my password.
Today, I found Unhide Passwords, a FF extension that will show you your password when […]

Really liked the article Is Google Badly Designed? on Google Blogoscoped. He talks about the design considerations with Yahoo and Google and their home pages.
I thought it was interesting that Google was viewed as “friendly” because of its simplicity.  Clearly Yahoo puts a lot of information on its page but it also feels very […]

Just ran across two articles showing the graphical changes to the home pages - www.yahoo.com for Yahoo and www.google.com for Google - over the past few years.
It’s neat to see this. One of the things that I find personally frustrating about the real world is driving past a place … and seeing […]

Found a reference to Mozy in PC Magazine. If you are looking to backup a small amount of files - 2GB or less - it’s absolutely free. Even at 20GB, it’s only $40/year. That’s much cheaper than the competition.
They do require you to get a weekly newsletter that I bet […]