Firefox hit 400 MILLION mark!!

Yes, this title is true! Mozilla Firefox has accomplished an amazing feat: 400 Million downloads in a little less than 3 years. How cool :)

1300 unopened rebate forms found in trash!

Yeah you heard me right!! I just heard a report of 1300 unopened rebate forms found in the trash outside of Vastech, a company that apparently handles some of the rebate offers for Fry's Electronics. I don't think I'm going to stop shopping at Fry's but I dunno about using their rebate forms anymore!

I had a pretty easy day at work today! I did the redlines on some plansheets for a project I was working on, where they are going to do a little maintenance on a road going to Quintana Beach... that was before lunch. I reprinted some sheets and stuff. After lunch, I got all the paperwork together and took them up to Houston to get re-reviewed for their approval and signatures and then it's off to Austin for the final review process! I didn't get back until 10 minutes before 5 ;)

I hope it all works out good, because that road really needs it, and I love going to the beach and having a few beers :P

RSS and OPML

I'm just starting to get into RSS (as I already said). RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and basically its a way for websites and blogs to list their posts/stories/whatever information where you can read it without having to go through all the crap of visiting their website/seeing their ads/etc. It's great for slower connections, or people who just want to see it text only, with the occasional picture if the post has one.

http://rss.gregarius.net is a great place to go and look and kind of get a feel for what RSS feeds are all about. Gregarius is a php-based RSS aggregator (in short, a program that deciphers RSS feeds into where you can read them). Anyway, if you go to that website and look, you will see all the different feed names on the left, and a collective list of the posts on the right. If you click on a feed, it will show you only posts from THAT feed on the right...

There are some great online feed readers, such as Google or Bloglines. There are also some for your PC that let you download the feeds to your desktop, but since I don't do that I can't suggest any programs for it.

The next time you go to a website, look for the orange RSS symbol in the address bar of your web browser, or look for it somewhere on the page. A lot of websites offer this, you almost don't even have to go to websites anymore to get caught up in the information it provides, you just have to subscribe to their RSS feeds :)

OPML is a standard for importing/exporting your RSS feeds (so you can make a backup, or so you can change feed readers, or so you can share your feeds lists). (Well, really its original intent wasn't that at all, but oh well!) A great site for OPML/RSS sharing is http://share.opml.org :)

Edit: I forgot to mention, I installed Gregarius on my website... my OPML list is also online.