Instead of doing the normal weekly “Cool Links” post I’m going to try something a bit different - random thoughts. In a nutshell, random thoughts posts will basically include some links I find interesting, as well as my thoughts of current news and trends. If you have any questions or whatever just contact me and ask. Odds are I’ll answer it.
So, let’s get started, shall we?
A New Computer Shop
One of my long-time online friends has started a computer biz called Claudio Izzi Computers up in Montreal, and I agreed to give a bit of free advertising. Truth be told I’ve thought about starting something similar here in upstate NY, hmm how does “Steele Computer” sound?
Anyway, good luck with your new biz!
CAPTCHAs And The DMCA
Apparently bypassing CAPTCHAs can be a violation of the DMCA anti-circumvention laws. This is really interesting because you could technically go after spammers who use software to bypass CAPTCHAs. Unfortunately this will probably be abused if it holds up in the courts.
Login Required!
Digg is so unique - it links to Apple news, Linux Junk, and panties with login screens. What’ll they think of next?
I’m curious though… what happens if you get the login wrong 3 times… does it chop something off? 
Blog Reviews
Someone IMed me and asked why I’m always so negative with the blog reviews. Well, simply put - giving positive advice really doesn’t help at all. Which is more helpful? “Great site” or “well… it could use different colors… maybe be skinnier… etc” You be the judge.
It Is Snowing!
Yep that’s right - we got about 3-5 inches of snow yesterday, and today we are cleaning it all up. Don’t know why but I just love winter. I guess it is because I don’t really mind cold that much - I can go outside in -20 degree weather with shorts and a t-shirt and be perfectly fine. In fact, I did that 2 winters ago when I shoveled my driveway by hand. Kept sweating so I said to hell with it and got on some shorts and spent about half an hour in freezing cold temps. And the experts claim you get frostbitten in -20 degree weather in a few minutes… liars.
My poor cat stuck one foot out the door into the snow yesterday and came running back in… then he sat by the sliding glass door and looked out… then looked at me with sad puppy-dog eyes and had that “I just want to go out!” look on his face. Then last night he was sitting up on a chair and looked absolutely bored to death. Poor little cat.
Safari 3!
I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.4.11 and thus got Safari 3. All in all I am really pleased with it, I especially love the new “inspect element” feature! It is great for grabbing .flv files 
Basically you do “inspect element” and it pops up with a kickass DOM view of the HTML page and then selects areas on the web view that you have selected in the element viewer. It is really really awesome, and is by-far the best feature I have seen since tabs. Here’s a pic of it:
The only thing that ticks me off with Safari 3 is it still hasn’t fixed a bug with clearing all cookies (you have to do remove all cookies, close preferences, then reopen preferences for it to save changes and remove the cookies), and it has an annoying “you are about to close a tab with text entered” alert if you close a tab that has text entered into a text box on the page. It is nice and all, but they need an option to disable it.
Another cool this is it works with WYSIWYG editors - which was greatly needed. It also seems a bit speedier and doesn’t slow down when I open my long bookmarks menu (has around 200-300 bookmarks. The last Safari version (2.0) would slow to a crawl - the new one opens it without a problem.
Just in case you doubt the fact I am a geek - just reread this whole section and you will understand the extent of my geekyness.
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