Author Archives: Christopher Mark Brooder

Super Smart-Ass Phones (not of the funny variety)

“How did you update your site, at a moments notice, when you were on the beach before? You didn’t? Wow! Regale me with what life was like back in the olden days!”

Get Rid of IE… NOW!

Robert Vamosi, a writer with ZDNet, wrote a great little piece about leaving IE on Windows forever. Robert wrote this last Monday, November 15th, but I just read it today, Saturday, November 20th. I am so glad more and more people are loosening their affiliation with M$ (Microsoft), even if in this case it is [...]

Has Microsoft Lost Focus?

Is Microsoft too busy trying to gobble up shares of services they know not that much about and in turn forgetting about what made them #1 in the sales of computers in the first place? Their operating system.

Firefox 1.0 is Here.

Today marks a great day in history; Firefox 1.0 was released.

RTP Company: A Great Client, A Great Project

RTP Company said, “Start with a clean sheet of paper and see what happens.” So I did.

Damn! I am good!

Today I did something I never knew I could do, something that, for my entire life, I figured was beyond my grasp. Something so mind-bendingly difficult that few before me have ever been able to achieve; I replaced a window! Yep, you heard me, Christopher Mark Brooder, replaced a window. Let’s put this in perspective [...]

Ohida: The New State

So… did you vote? Voter turn out was higher than it has been in the past few elections, so I think you must have. Well good for you! Pat yourself on the back for a job well done. Well, for a job done anyway. We have another state in the union as of yesterday. Did [...]

Politickle

So, this is it. Today is the day we vote for our next president and a whole bunch of other people that we decide we want to lead us. This is perhaps one of the biggest elections in our history. What we decide today will effect us for not only the next four years but [...]

Microsoft: Infinite Wisdom

I wanted to turn off the built-in firewall in Windows XP (my test machine – I work on Macs) so I went to the Control Panel and clicked on Security Center. So far so good. When Security Center opens up you are greeted with a window, inside which has three main sections, each with a [...]