A mouse peeks quietly from behind the g in Google … what is next? Tomorrow will tell. I love the Google Doodles.

Continuing to lose market share of MAC browser users, Microsoft is throwing in the Internet Explorer towel. Do it now, if you use a MAC, dump IE. It has not had an update of consequence in three years anyway as explained here on C-Net.

This is an interesting site: GoodStorm. Their digital printing method may allow all of our fans (I know that there are at least two of you out there somewhere) to buy a shirt with our logo. That would be cool … to see our t-shirt out there somewhere. I made the request to be added, now we’ll wait to see.

Microsoft at one time threatened to make it’s own rss symbol and avoid the uniformity already existing in the RSS arena. Thankfully, C-Net cites some Microsoft employees as saying they will now adopt Mozilla’s RSS Logo. Thank you Microsoft.

I often run with my phone in my pocket. Sometimes it rains. I wold love to have a waterproof cell phone, and it appears that they are on the way. Japan always gets the best stuff first unfortunately for me.

OOo is short for OpenOffice.org. Since Massachusetts decided to pressure the MicroSoft Office folks by insisting on an open standard for document format for the state business, things have gotten interesting — and political. The most talked about article currently over at C-Net is this article on that very subject. Has everyone tried the new Open Office 2.0? I have and it looks very nice. I am currently reading a book called Point and Click Open Office. I’ll review the book in a few days probably, but it looks very good so far.

What I really like about Open Office for starts is that it seamlessly creates pdf documents. WordPerfect (I highly prefer this program over Word) will also make pdf’s pretty well. Not so with Word. After using Open Office for that, however, I find I am using it for more and more things and using Word less and less.

A big part of the argument over at C-Net is that Open Office — and open source software — is not really free because it lacks support when used as a free program. Now lets think a minute …. if I can buy a product at say $100 a copy and I need thousands of them, or I can get the same product for free, won’t it make more sense for me to train my own support person anyway? I don’t need the companies support if I have my own as any organization of the size of Massachusetts for example. Even in a smaller business, buy the book above for $20 and you are off to the races. It is an easy to use program.

This is an interesting article over at C-Net about how a research firm gathers comments from the Internet in an effort to determine how much buzz there is surrounding a television show. The theory is that a good show (meaning one that will be popular — not that it will have great artistic quality) will generate positive buzz. The problem is that if advertisers catch on to this, then how long before NBC starts paying people to hit the chat rooms, start blogging and so forth? I know, I’m a cynic … but am I right?

The show with the most buzz this year was “My Name is Earl”. I have to admit that I watched just one episode and found it hilarious personally. If I was looking to watch any more TV it would definately have been an add to my mix, but we watch exactly three shows a week — all on tape delay. I didn’t need another one.