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Linux is a great system to use. It does things efficently and cheaply (referring to cost). It would be nice that the rest of the world play nicely with something so wonderful and ahead of the game as Linux.

Bussiness practice is to develop something and then make it a secret so that particular company alone can benefit from it’s special product. That’s fine and dandy – everyone needs to make money.

How about some industry standards thought? Eh? What if there was one format for a word-processor document that can be read cross platform and be manipulated in any way ensuring feature rich abilities? The world would be a better place, wouldn’t it?

I know, I’m ranting…. but someone’s gotta do it.

This stems from me wanting to install the off-line version of Google Docs, but unable to because I don’t have the right version of Firefox. When I did get the right version, it didn’t work! BUG!!!

As much as I love Google, I demand that they do the following:

• In their Calendar App – include handheld support (ie. Palm OS, Pocket PC…)
• Linux support for offline apps
• Optimize for speed in their apps
• Have gmail import any email message
• Upload entire folders/directories at a time

I think if those features were developed, I would be happier than anything… until then I will remain a faithful user/critic.

Kevin

Alot has been goin on in my world this week. I’ve been sick for a day, had Armagedon, school’s about to wind down, I’ve switched to the KDE desktop instead of GNOME, made great multimedia projects for school, and I fixed numerous computers too!

(Linux user talk) I’ve decided to switch to KDE because I was getting used to GNOME. I don’t really like to stay with one thing all the time, because then it’s boring. This switch will hopefully rejuvinate my computing experience. It seems a lot smoother and sleeker than GNOME, but that’s at first look. If it was like anything before, I ran into a lot of bugs, then I will probably just go command line! (Just kidding!)

I hope everyone has a safe Memorial Day weekend.
Kevin

Sorry for the downtime of the server and this site…
there was a power outage yesterday and I forgot to turn my server back on… oops!

Kevin

I know, I am against paying exuberant prices for things, but I would shell out dough for an Apple computer. Why?

• They are stable machines with little or no problems.

• They are easy to use.

• They are based on Unix. (Stability, reliability, and strength.)

I’ve been using my dad’s computer that he just bought – a MacPro. It is awesome and I want one for myself.

If they could make an open source verison of the OS X operating system… the world would be a better place… until then… I will use the next best thing… Linux.

-Kevin

One thing that is constantly changing is computer technology. We are now able interface computers with virtually anything. Scientists are working on integrating computers into our human bodies. Is this right? I don’t know. But the Church will soon need to decide whether or not computing infringes with God’s plan.

Computers were developed as a numeric computation tool, data storage, or communicational tool. The same principles are found today, however it seems more natural – more excepted than it was even just 10 years ago.

The Internet is now a major form of communication with social networking sites such as Myspace or Facebook. Information can be passed within a matter of seconds. Voice and video has become even more popular than traditional text-based sites as faster connection speeds enable us to send much more data over a line than imagined before at such a reasonable price.

The physical shape and size has changed over the years. Upon it’s invention, a single computer would take up an entire room and only have a fraction of the capacity of a standard desktop computer today. Now we have laptops, mobile devices, and tablets – enabling us to access information in more remote places or while we are on the move.
The industry tendency is to create a more natural interface. For example, a touch screen, a human interacts using fingers or a stylus. Maybe in the future, we will rely less on the keyboard, but actually revert back to pen or simply dictate what you want to write – a much more flexible way of communicating.

I want to see how this field progresses, and I actually want to be part of this field. I want to design the latest and be on the bleeding edge of it all. I want to really know how this technology works.

As with all things, technology must be used in a responsible manner… so use my motto – “Don’t do anything stupid.”

Kevin

Yes, I know it seems impossible, but I am in love with Google. After a recent tour of the Chicago location, I now better understand the vision of the company and see that some of it’s tools actually are very useful.

From day one, I’ve used Google to search what ever I needed to find. It does it very well. Several years passed from the day I first typed in google.com into the address bar, and found that they had an awesome email client – google mail or gmail. At that time they gave users about 4 gigs of space. Now today they are giving about 6 and 1/2 gigs of space to store emails. So far, I have 817 emails that take up 34mb of space – not even 1% of the space they have given me for free.

Other tools that I am quite fond of – Google Calendar – it’s nice to keep track of all the events in my life. The one downside I’m hoping Google will engineer is the ability to sync with a PDA or smartphone device.

Google Docs is pretty cool – it’s barebones, yet it offers some cool collaboration features that make it ideal. The next time I need to type something up, I’ll seriously think about using Google Docs.

Back to the tour… It was amazing. Every workspace is close to food – free food. The cafeteria has great food – the chef was serving ribs when I went to the tour.

The building was very lively, colorful, and surprisingly comfortable. There was a game room complete with a ping-pong table, Xbox 360, etc… there was an area where they had movies playing and bean-bag chairs set up for the engineers to sit back, relax, and work.

It was a very pleasant experience… maybe one day, I’ll work at a place like that…

Kevin

I am starting to create an online classroom to teach about basic computer usage and specialized needs. I plan on selling membership to schools to educate teachers – the one’s who seem to struggle the most with the advancing technology – which actually holds kids back.

Kevin

I mistakenly deleted my entire site… so this will have to suffice…
STARTING OVER!!

Kevin