Archive for July, 2005

IE7 will help Firefox?

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

I was reading an interesting article from linuxpipeline.com about the implications of Internet Explorer 7 on the popularity of Firefox. Specifically, it ties in several very important pieces of knowledge:

While Firefox has spread rapidly among personal users, its adoption in businesses has been significantly slower. Much of this is attributed to corporate decisions [...]

Clutch Hitting

Monday, July 18th, 2005

I was reading an article on Retrosheet.org and that got me thinking about the much discussed debate about clutch hitting in baseball. For some reason it always seems to bother me when people make broad generalities like “So and so never comes through in the clutch.” For example someone has tried to convince [...]

Ubuntu Linux

Sunday, July 17th, 2005

I must say that I am becoming increasingly impressed with Ubuntu Linux as a legitimate desktop distribution that anybody could use.
Before we get into that though, I suppose I should elaborate on my recent operating system history. Up until two years ago, like most people I used Windows as my main desktop environment. [...]

Yet Another Blogger

Saturday, July 16th, 2005

So my new home on the web, owenkellett.info, is now live and fully functional. Now that my life is moving into a new chapter (life after college), I thought I’d try my hand in the blogging community. Those of you that know me might think that this is an uncharacteristic venture for me. [...]

New Webhost!

Saturday, July 16th, 2005

I signed up for a webhost and my domain!
I migrated the site so it all appears to be fully functional. And now it’s time for bed.

First Post

Friday, July 15th, 2005

owenkellett.info is born!
After drowning in the endless selection of blogging software out there I’ve finally settled on WordPress. At the moment I have it set up on my own personal computer running Ubuntu Linux with stock installs of apache, php, and mysql. Since this computer is my main computer and a laptop, I [...]