Robert's Technology Journal

I recently discovered a new blogging platform written in Python called Zine. Although is in it’s early stages (Version 0.1.2), it looks like the developers have some interesting goals for the project. The most interesting feature is it support for valid HTML 4.

You’ve no doubt heard the rumors that Apple is to announce a new tablet product at the end of this month. Even the Wall Street Journal has an article about it’s pending release. I don’t know if I believe the speculation, but some pretty reliable sources have said this is the new product that Apple has up its sleeve. If the rumors are true then Apple isn’t just launching a larger version of the iPod Touch, but is intending on taking on Amazon for the eBook reader market.

I’ve been watching the Ubuntu project for the last few years, and I’m surprised at how well it has succeeded in becoming a mainstream Linux distribution. It has certainly reached its goal of becoming a user friendly Linux distribution that works out of the box with most hardware. Ubuntu has also gained much publicity for its efforts. This fame has also brought a large number of new Linux users that might not have joined the community if it weren’t for the easy of use of Ubuntu. It seems that Ubuntu has certainly made a name for itself in the Linux community. With that being said its hard to find a magazine, blog, or news article that doesn’t mention Ubuntu when covering Linux. To some Linux is Ubuntu and Ubuntu is Linux, but this is not the case.

While this is by no means an attack anyones particular religion or beliefs, I do want to illustrate the point that we as humans can become zealous in our own beliefs about the world and technology as well.

Unless you’ve been in a coma for the last ten years you probably heard of Facebook…I did an experiment one week and didn’t log into Facebook, and my hypothesis was correct, I didn’t miss a single thing in anyone’s life. Why do I keep logging into Facebook?