Wifi: I love it. What a great technology, and it just keeps getting faster. We're now talking about Gigabit wireless networks.

And when you're on the go there are tons of free hotspots waiting just waiting for your connection.

If you're out and about with your laptop/netbook/smartphone, then you probably opt to use these free wifi providers over 3g data plans.

But how safe is that? These can be minimal security internet gateways.

Some photos from Jacob`s first trip to the zoo.

I discovered Lullabot recently and I'm getting caught up on their poscasts and screencasts. It's great insight into the Drupal community and Drupal development.

Here are a couple of good ones to get started with images and media:

Drupal Voices 43: Aaron Winborn on the Media module

Exciting development in the Drupal Media model. This sounds amazing.
http://www.lullabot.com/drupal-voices/drupal-voices-43-aaron-winborn-med...

Photo galleries with Views Attach

Here's how to setup Thunderbird so you can read your favorite RSS Feeds just like email.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_RSS_Basics

A photo gallery of my dog Pheobe.

As a big fan of NetBeans, I was really happy to hear that IBM called off their plans to acquire Sun Microsystems. With IBM in control of Eclipse (enemy #1 for NetBeans), I knew the future would be dim for my favorite IDE. Even though NetBeans is Open Source, Sun has been actively funding the project for years. IBM wouldn't likely not have the same priority.

I've always been a bit uncomfortable with Facebook's terms of service. Well, I shouldn't say "always". The first few weeks were a pure love affair. I was charmed by it, estatic about how much fun and addicting it was. But as the novelty began to fade, and I began to learn more about the stakeholders behind Facebook, I had second thoughts about our relationship. I regretted the fact that I had originally told Facebook what real birth date was.

I currently don't have a smartphone. I almost made the transition when I had to replace my cell phone last year. But I wasn't compelled to take on the added expense given the current features and data plan pricing. I want a device with WiFi support so I don't have to eat up my data plan. But when I do need my data plan, it should be affordable and meet my needs.

The iPhone is a great product, but I'm not keen on letting Apple control our destiny with their closed, proprietary business model. Also, I'm a Bell Mobility customer, not a Rogers customer.