I must say, there’s a lot going on today around the web. Instead of posting a whole slew of entries I’ll just recap what I’m seeing:

• The history of the personal computer in TV commercials
  - Being somewhat of an old-timer (my first exposure to a personal computer was in the late 70s), I’m really digging this article. You have to check out these old commercials. Fascinating stuff!
• Flickr Users Are Mad as Hell About Today’s Yahoo News - Everyone I know online has a Flickr account. So, us old schoolers are going to be resigned to logging in via our Yahoo accounts! I’m a little peeved myself, because apparently we’ll be giving up some free features like unlimited tags and contacts, etc… oh pooey!
• 23 Ideas for Finding New Readers for Your Blog - This might be useful for bloggers who’ve just started a brand new blog (or two) like myself. Btw, I’ve started another new blog over at Vox.com!
• Vista News: What REALLY happened when Bill Gates was leaving The Daily Show set! - Any Vista users out there yet? Anyway, here’s Bill Gates being interviewed by Jon Stewart. Here’s the original video footage.
• Bush Administration Turns Up The Heat on Iran - And the United States of America could be going to war against Iran, in addition to Iraq, and let’s not forget we have troops in Afghanistan.
• The Last Minute HD Super Bowl Party Guide - A great read about HD-TV and HD-related toys, for those who want to make an excuse for getting a brand new HD-TV Home Theater system… Super Bowl time is coming!
• Digg.com: The Real Story - A bit of sick humor, but funny. A mock video by Heywood Jablome about Kevin Rose and the Digg.com story.

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How many of you are using Linux? Or have used it in the past? *raises hand*

One of my goals this year is to get Linux running on a dedicated box. I have Mac OS X which has Darwin (a flavor of UNIX called BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution). But I’d like to run Red Hat, Mandriva, or Ubuntu distributions on it’s own computer.

Anyway, this is a great introductory article to the world of Linux, which explains the various “distros” one can download:

“Linux is an operating system that is available for free. It is what is known as open source, its source code is freely available for anyone to modify and as a result the operating system is very flexible; it runs on a variety of different platforms. It is commonly used in machines such as mobile phones and ATM’s and it’s now becoming quite popular.“

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Is it my imagination, or is there somewhat of an epidemic out there?

My nephew was sick and didn’t go to school for 4 days. My niece was sick for 5 days! My youngest son was sick for 2 days last week, and had a relapse and has been sick again for another 2 days.

Plus, I’m reading on various people’s blogs that they have been or were sick with flu-like symptoms! Hmm… I have to watch out because I have a very busy week coming up, and can’t afford to call in sick. Working musicians (as far as I know) don’t get paid sick leave.

I will be the first to admit that historical, I’ve been a big spender rather than a spend thrift… and I do have a bit of credit card debt I need to pay off. I’ve been going to this site, GetRichSlowly.org, because the author has amassed a ton of helpful articles and links to help get one out of debt and truly save. Read more

It was a pretty quick and easy upgrade. So in the month of January many of us have upgraded to 2.06, then 2.07, and finally to 2.1. *whew*

Um, no more upgrades for a while, okay?

Anyway, Suki and Pat have pointed out some error code that shows up at the top of my page. I’m hoping that with this upgrade, that problem will disappear. I activated about 3 or 4 new plugins and I’m guessing it’s one of them that’s causing the problem. So, I hope it’s gone.

If you haven’t already voted, the polls are still open and here’s the scoop on the deadline:

Voting will close at 10:00 PM EST on Friday, February 2. The winners will be posted on Monday, March 12.

Here’s the link to vote: http://2007.bloggies.com/