Peng shares some great Reader links

Peng’s posted some great links here, and I’ve posted some of the links he’s shared with me, but what many of you don’t realize is that he also shares some fantastic links on Google Reader.

Why the frak are they called bugs?

For years I’ve worked with computers both as a user and as a tester, and I’ve used the term “bugs” for errors for almost as long as I’ve used computers. But until today I never understood just why they’re called “bugs.”

Amarok Neon, blog bot, Do and new tees. Oh my!

I’m going to roll three bits of info I saw on Planet Ubuntu into one post, and I think I’m going to have something for just about everyone.

Microsoft gives up on Yahoo

A month ago it looked like Microsoft wouldn’t take no for an answer in their hope to bid to merge with Yahoo!, but last night they decided “no” is the way it will have to be.

Fixing the OpenOffice.org grammar glitch in Ubuntu Hardy

Last year Nanci posted that there were grammar checking tools for OpenOffice.org, the wonderful open source office suite, that takes care of one of the most glaring omissions and deal breakers in people looking for a cheaper alternative to Microsoft Office. Unfortunately there seems to be a bit of a glitch with it in Ubuntu Hardy. Luckily there is an easy way to fix it.

Google rolls outa beta of Google Earth 4.3 with some great new features

[Corrected the info on using Street View in Google Earth. - Peng]

Google released the beta of Google Earth 4.3 a couple weeks ago, and there are some very nice features added including the sun and atmosphere, a new set of navigation tools, and even an implementation of Street View, although the GE Street View isn’t as easy as the one in Google Maps.

We’re sort of feeling blue…

Peng and I have been talking about the theme we’re using on the blog, but neither of us could find a theme we like. We have, however, decided with the baseball season going so well and our favorite baseball team doing so well, we decided to simply change the color on the theme we’re already using to match better, as Peng says, the color of our blood.

What do you guys think? Leave a comment with your opinion of it. If everyone prefers the green we can change back easily. Otherwise we’re going to let our blog reflect not only one of our favorite colors but also an annual mantra for this time of year.

SecondLife is getting ready to roll out Dazzle, but there’s a workaround for the biggest complaint

The latest round of Release Candidates for the SecondLife viewer have been including the Dazzle “skin”, and yesterday they rolled out Release Candidate Viewer 1.20 RC5. Along with all of the other complaints about the new series of RC, including why haven’t they fixed the invisible skirt issue, one issue seems to be almost unanimously hated: The Dazzle skin is fugly! Luckily there’s a way to get rid of the hideous Dazzle skin.

Woops! I missed one

My quartet of Linux links should have been a quintet, but somehow I had forgotten to flag a post I wanted to pass along. My bad.

A.M.O. to be updated Thursday. Abomibations.Mozilla.org no longer?

A post on the Mozilla WebDev blog this morning reports an update coming to Addons.Mozilla.org this Thursday. It looks like they’re fixing several of the bugs that made me detest the site so much when version 3.4 was rolled out.