Sep 14
I just finished reading Snow Crash. It’s a science fiction book about a time when people commute between reality and the Metaverse. For all intensive purposes this book outlined the concept of The Sims. It details a parallel universe that people “goggle” into. They control avatars in this other world and interact with others just as they would in reality.
Taking in to consideration that Snow Crash was written in 1991 it is absolutely amazing to draw comparisons between what seemed like sci-fi back then and how it exists today. We are close to Neal Stephenson’s idea of the Internet. Lets just hope that a Snow Crash virus is never released.
Sep 14
Mozilla’s latest version of Firefox takes the cake when it comes to features. I converted over to Firefox about four months ago. I was impressed with it’s speed and reliablity. Not to mention the growing number of virii targeting Internet Explorer had me hiding behind the couch with tin foil over my head.
The PR1.0 version of Firefox implements a new feature called Live Bookmarks. If a site has an RSS feed Firefox notes it at the bottom right corner of the browser window. The RSS feed can be bookmarked and the headlines from the site will show in the browser bookmark list. A very handy little feature for those of us that browse the Internet at break-neck speeds. RSS is a very handy little standard which cuts through all the glitter of the Internet to deliver information quickly and precisely.
