Until recently, I didn’t use RSS feeds, but decided to look into it further as the number of blogs and websites I’ve been trying to keep up with has grown exponentially in the past year. I could probably devote 3-4 hours daily doing nothing but checking for updates and reading blogs. Until recently, I did this the old-fashioned way – by going through my bookmarks and visiting site after site. Not every site updates frequently and this was inefficient use of time. So I turned to …

I really wish laptop designers would’t make power buttons so darn easy to find. I don’t know how many times one of the kids has decided to push the biggest and most obvious button, usually when we’re right in the middle of Something Important. I never thought I’d be nostalgic for the days that you had to reach behind a computer to turn it on. Of course, if the laptop’s on your laptop, maybe an obvious button on the back would be a bad idea. I’d …

We’ve been using WordPress 2.0 for a little over a week now, and I feel comfortable enough to give an assessment of our experience thus far. First off, we both enjoy using it because writing a post is easy. With our previous system (Joomla), it involved logging in, clicking a button for content items, clicking a button to make a new entry, being limited to one category and clicking between a couple of other pages to do stuff like upload pictures, edit tags (to circumvent the single category …