Monthly Archive for May, 2008

Happy Cinco de Mayo 2008!

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Cinco de MayoToday, the 5th of May, celebrates the Mexican victory over the French army at the “Batalla da Puebla.” The celebration of Cinco de Mayo first started in 1862.

Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico’s Independence Day, but is often misunderstood to be their Independence Day. Mexico’s Independence Day is actually on September 16th.

According to Wikipedia:

In the United States, Cinco de Mayo has taken on a significance beyond that in Mexico. The date is perhaps best recognized in the United States as a date to celebrate the culture and experiences of Americans of Mexican ancestry, much as St. Patrick’s Day, Oktoberfest, and the Chinese New Year are used to celebrate those of Irish, German, and Chinese ancestry, respectively. Similar to those holidays, Cinco de Mayo is observed by many Americans regardless of ethnic origin. …Commercial interests in the United States have capitalized on the celebration, advertising Mexican products and services, with an emphasis on beverages, foods, and music.

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Opera Dragonfly - A day away!

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Opera DragonflyFor those of you who have not heard, Opera is releasing the “Opera Developer Tools” named Dragonfly to the public tomorrow, May 6th, 2008! The release will be made Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 at 12:00 PM EST.

The new Dragonfly developer tools are aimed at competing with the developer tools that are already and have been offered by Firefox for a long time now via extensions (Firebug).

Dragonfly should (in theory) increase the popularity and use of the Opera browser by providing debugging tools to web developers. In the past, it was always some what difficult to develop web sites to support all of the main browsers and then fix problems that occurred in Opera. The old tools just didn’t cut it.

The new developer tools will provide a much more efficient and easier method of pin-pointing problems and correcting them in Opera with much less work and effort than was once required.

With more web sites working flawlessly in Opera (due to the developer tools), there will be less reason for end users to not give Opera a try. These tools will help level the playing field among the major browsers.

I know what I’ll be doing all day tomorrow. :D Make sure you check out Dragonfly tomorrow at 12:00 PM!

UPDATE:
Opera Dragonfly has been released and it is fantastic! Even as an alpha version it’s truly a handy tool. If you want to use this tool then you’ll have to get the latest version of Opera to test it with. To go that go to:
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/05/06/getting-ready-for-dragonfly

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Interesting Feeds - Edition 2

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This edition contains about a week in review of some interesting feeds. It’s gonna be long, but I did cut out a large portion of them. These are the ones that made the cut, haha. Checkout anything that tempts you!

That’s the list for this week. Enjoy!

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College Years - Ending another semester

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on May 2, 2008
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So I’ll be here at NC State until Monday, just finishing up some things. This semester has flown by so fast! I hope I can relax this weekend and get some time to myself, but everyday’s been busy for me lately with planned things and unplanned things.

I guess the one word that I chose to describe myself in my “Self-Imaging” post really is true, haha. Story of my life..being unscheduled.

Well, I added a forum to the blog so if you just want to chat with me you can. You can continually find the link in the column to the right. It is labeled “bbPress Forum“, which is also made by the same team that works on WordPress. They tied in nicely together, but it did take a bit of hacking and customization to get the appearances to match. I didn’t want it to seem like a completely different site, so I had to work on the style sheet and header a bit.

For now, you should check out the bbPress Forum and bookmark it! I’m planning to using it like a general chat, off-topic, whatever kind of board just for friends and visitors to talk in general with me. Hope you enjoy it!

I’m working on fitting a Photo Gallery in, but that will be just a little bit before it goes live. ;)

Hope everyone’s exams are going well! Good luck! I’m off to grab Jasmine a Red Bull before her exam..

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