Joe Levi presents Greener Living through Technology

According to TechNewsWorld Microsoft is trimming back the proposed feature set of their upcoming operating system (codenamed “Longhorn”).

Recently, Longhorn’s release date was pushed up from the 2007 to early 2006, apparently, after timelines have already slipped to a late-2006 release, Microsoft has had to trim down Longhorn’s list of proposed features to meet the release date. Most notably, the most advanced and forward thiking portion of the new OS, an updated file system called “WinFS” (based around a relational database) was trimmed back to work only on local stores (not across networks), and now has been cut entirely.

While this isn’t crippling (worst case would be to have an NTFS or FAT32, which is what we’re using now), it was one of the two coolest items of the new operating system. I could go into detail about what it was, but suffice it to say, it’s a great loss.

Remember those stereograms back in highschool, the prints that looked like a “static field” on paper, and when you crossed your eyes just right you’d be able to see a 3D image in the static? Remember how cool that was?

What if you could do that with actual photographs? It’s been done! Quentin Burke has taken a bunch of pictures of natural arches using two 3D methods (“parallel” that works best with a 3D view, and “crossed” which works using the “crossed eye” method that the old “static field” used). Take a look!

Years ago I tried the whole “make money off your website” deal. Most were ad banners that were ads for other ad banners (ePipo, AllAdvantage, etc.). Basically, you’d install a program and it’d cycle through ads on your desktop. You’d be paid for the number of hours that you were “looking at the ads” as well as for the activity of anyone that you signed up down stream.

When the Dotcom collapse hit, most of those programs went away, leaving only the way to earn money on the web (at least by a small web site, like mine) is to link to high-paid trial and class-action laywers Mesothelioma pages. (Don’t get me started…)

Enter Google AsSense. I’ve always been impressed with Google. They’re honest. They’re forward thinking. So, if you notice on the right side of my ‘blog pages you’ll see some simple ads provided by Google. Every time tha tyou click one of those links I’ll have to worry a little less about how I’m going to afford to keep the website running for another week. (No pressure! )

So I’m going to try it out and see how it works out! Please, let me know what you think about it!