Family guy funny moments

Family guy funny moments wrapped in this short video:

best condom commercial ever

Watching this kid give his parent a hard time in the supermarket is something I think most people will relate to. In this commercial, however, they took it to the next level - the kid is REALLY annoying. You wouldn't believe how annoying a kid can be until you've watched this ad. And all of it because of his bonbons...

Funny soccer moments

Funny soccer moments compiled into one video:

The Evolution of Homer

This is a funny intro cartoons from The Simpsons showing the evolution of Homer:

Student starts Firefox campaign on campus

I've come across an interesting story about a student who decided he's going to switch all of the people on his university's campus to Firefox.

His name is James F. Beckner III and he is the representative of the Firefox campaign on his campus.

I wish him luck, and hope he'll convince people to try it out - and maybe even switch over.

Open Office for Schools

I came across a blog post by Nate Grondin about Open Office and wanted to support Nate and other teachers and educators.

Open Office is a great alternative to the proprietary programs we use - whether a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation generator or even a drawing tool - they're all there in the pack.



The first noticeable advantage is the price - it's free! yes, absolutely free. The second advantage is that it is Open Source, which means that it is in constant evolution to become better than before*.

Like with everything that is free, you make some compromises. I.e. knowing that it'll take some time to get used to the new GUI, and perhaps some of the smaller functions may not be ripe yet. But for most work that needs to be done the Open Office provides a great alternative to the proprietary office software that's out there.

If you're wondering what you can do now about this, whether it's for saving a few bucks for your school, or just to educate your self, why not start with something real basic - download the Open Office and start getting acquainted with the GUI and all the menu layouts. That way, you can get a taste and feel of how Open Office works. You'd be surprised how some things are very similar, other very intuitive. Some of the things you'll learn will be new to you, but that's all part of life - to learn.

Open Office is a good alternative, in my view. It provides you with most if not all of your needs. And now is a good a time as any to start familiarizing yourself with it.

This recommendation is of course spoken from experience - I've downloaded it and even installed it for my dad.

* Open Source is a very wide topic with many advantages (and some disadvantages) for the end user. However, since writing about Open Source can be very lengthy and stretch into a book or two, if you don't know what it is and want to learn more, I suggest reading more about it. You can even see my previous posts on Open Source on my blog.

Drupla or Joomla?

Some of you may remember that I've been trying to decide on a new CMS for the website I was running, as described in my previous post.

Since then several things changed, some of them more major than others. But, the overall influence of the time that's passed forced me into a harsh decision I was not willing to make - I have to choose the best CMS for the website.

I am not the sole webmaster on the project, and lately I've had less time to contribute to it. That changes the preferences for the decision.

If it were up to me I would choose to try out Drupal. Reasons include a wide range of users from around the net, that is mainstream sites that I surf to that use Drupal (i.e. www.twit.tv), a growing community of users and the international multi-language support it started to offer (translations are in good shape only since the last version).

However, since it is not, the decision was made to go with Joomla. I am not disappointed, and actually I am a bit relieved. Choosing Joomla allows me to let the other webmasters push forward with their ideas and advance the website, as some of them know Joomla. Those that don't know any CMS will learn Joomla, and maybe some day take on Drupal.

I will return to Drupal when I'll have a bit more time and perhaps use it for a personal website or project.

Play 8 bit Nintento games online

Checkout this great list of 8-bit Nintendo games.

I would point out one of my favorites,Bubble Bobble.

Have fun!.