Facebook, twitter, etc?  Heard of it?  It'd be nice to be able to share skins or what-have-you.

I know I'm running classic on this rig and it doesn't help but how about a better title and well . . not using a windows control?  U.G.L.Y and breaks teh whole look and feel you have going on.  

In the second panel down on the right there is a section for other skins of the same type . . but some catagories aren't skins . . . like suites.  

Sometimes it seems like the basics are forgotten. It all starts with this. There are two parts to customer experience: the customer, and the experience. The CUSTOMER is a person. A human being. Your neighbor, your aunt, your postman, your car mechanic, your librarian. This is a person who deserves to be listened to, not just "monetized" or reduced to a number in a database somewhere in the cloud. The EXPERIENCE is everything that happens to that person as they interact with your co...

Another Desktopx 4 beta has been released.  The standard and the professional version have both gotten the same updates   This build focuses the feedback that has been recieved after the initial release last week. Post anything that looks odd.  Make sure to give us system information like your OS (including 32 or 64 bit), and if it's hard to explain (or even if it isn't) a screenshot.

I heard on the news this morning that the lawyer that got gay marriages recognized in Massachusetts is bringing suit against the federal government to recognize legal marriage by the states and provide equal benefits. ( http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/us/03marriage.html?ref=us ) I support the suit. Over the past six years I've had the honor of officiating five weddings in Texas.  I firmly believe that the ceremonies I performed had very little to do with the state.  Each was a ...

I love Fences!   Fences is a one-of-a-kind program, allowing you to draw labeled shaded areas on your desktop, which become movable & resizable containers for your desktop icons. These groups can help bring organization and consistency to your computer's desktop, solving the "constant mess" problem that has plagued the desktop since its inception. Fences also helps you finally appreciate the wallpaper you have h...

Yesterday at the store I saw a package of Eggland's Best eggs labeled "From Vegetarian Fed Hens". On two levels I am disturbed by this. The first is that chickens would have to be force fed veggies or deprived of their natural diets to be vegetarian. I have a choice to be "unnatural" if I want; a chicken does not. That chicken is either getting supplements or is malnourished. I don't believe that most vegetarians would support either option. The other thing (and this invalidates ...

Fifty years ago Atlas Shrugged was a fiction of what might happen.  According to the linked editorial it's not so fictional anymore.   David Kelley, the president of the Atlas Society, which is dedicated to promoting Rand's ideas, explains that "the older the book gets, the more timely its message." He tells me that there are plans to make "Atlas Shrugged" into a major motion picture -- it is the only classic novel of recent decades that was never made into a movie. "We don't ne...

I must be missing something.  I know I'm not supposed to use logic when dealing with teh feds . . but can someone with a bigger brain help me out?   Fact: $700US was legislated to bail out the banks. Assumed (by me): that this was near the amount needed to avert the crisis Fact: the President and the Treasury want to use some of this money to bail out the auto industry Questions:  Did Congress approve more than was the minimum needed? Did the banks end up not ...

In light of the rash of bailouts that are in effect or proposed it's a good time to be reminded (and to remind your representation in the government) that the money they mananage is not theirs to give. Not Yours To Give Col. David Crockett US Representative from Tennessee Originally published in "The Life of Colonel David Crockett," by Edward Sylvester Ellis. One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distingui...

Last month I was involved in an email chain amongst some friends and I was led to respond. Alice has been having extra-ordinary bad luck; out of work, chronic pain, car troubles, kid troubles, lots of pain in her past. Bob thought his troubles were worse and was wondering how to be happy. Email is probably not the best way to answer you Bob, but I'm going to take a shot anyway. Alice has more faith in God than anyone I have ever known. I look up to her as a model for the kind I faith I w...

I've seen a number of posts and a heard a number of radio comments that suggests that the Republican Party needs to change. I believe that in the past election they failed to have a platform and a communications plan to convince the people who they are, how they represent the people, and what what they stand for. I've hear folks saying that the party needs to become more centrist if they want to win future elections. But how can they still be Republicans if they go too much the the center?...

So we are at the bird house at the zoo. A ladybug lands on my hand. Downbelow two workers are lettin out a bag of ladybugs. They are to eatpests on plants but are safe because birds won't eat foul tasting bugs. I ask the girls to eat one. I offer a dollar. As the bidding moves up to $10 the ladybug on my hand flies into my mouth and I swallow. Worst vegetarian ever. This is the pictrure my wife took to capture the moment. Laughing, crying, coughing, trying not to puke. &n...