Fetus With a Blog

Our little baby girl may perhaps be the first fetus to ever have her own blog. Be sure to check out her website at http://gabriellablog.com. She'd rather have her very own blog rather than clutter up my site with the hodgepodge of posts that I tend to make. She'll be posting pictures up on her site as well as updates on what is new in her life.

Google Maps at Night

Stumbled across Google Maps at Night today. I must say, this is a pretty cool albeit somewhat useless Google Maps hack.

Random Thoughts

The other day some friends of mine and I started a new blog on just random things. Although much of the content is video-game related, we also mix in a lot of funny, odd, and interesting things we see from day to day. Be sure to check it out, you might become a fan.

Chat in Gmail

There are some interesting new features coming to Gmail that integrate Google Talk with it. You can now save chats in Gmail and soon will be able to chat from Gmail. I'll have to fool around with this today and see how it works.

GAIM

Those of you that use AOL's own AIM client, you may want to refrain from installing the latest update, AIM Triton. In typical AOL fashion, it is very bloated and filled with crap that you may not need or want. It is difficult to decide what is the most annoying thing about AIM Triton.

It takes forever just for it to draw a frickin' window. When a program fails at something as fundamental as that, you know it is time to unistall. It also installs extra programs such as Plaxo and AOL Explorer without giving you the option to prevent the installation. I've uninstalled it and installed GAIM instead.

I last used GAIM long ago, when experimenting with Linux desktops. Since then, they have developed a Windows client as well, and so far I'm quite pleased with it. It is very simplistic and through plugins gives you all of the functionality in AIM and more. Like Trillian it also has the ability to connect to multiple networks, so if you like it you can make it your sole instant messaging client. If you're an AIM user, I would highly recommend you abandon AOL's client and go with GAIM.