There’s a fine line, of being a consumer hound, being consumer savvy or even frugal.

I found myself in a local computer store, thinking I needed one or two new hard drives (to put them in an mirror raid solution). Then I realized, why am I storing old information that I’ll never look at again. I should just delete it. It’s not like they’re life time worthy moments like photos, or work that I’ve done. It was meaningless data, that had no future worth.

Delete, delete, delete…

I now have enough storage to last me a lot longer.

Trying to be smarter with my money… just because you have it, doesn’t mean you need to spend it.

Removed:

• filter.g: was no longer maintained, and ad block plus has a subscription mechanism.
• greasemonkey, and stylish: were no longer used by me.

• Adblock Plus
  
  Ads were yesterday!
• Better Gmail 2
  
  Enhances Gmail with a compilation of useful features written by Greasemonkey user script developers. All scripts copyright their original authors. Click on the script homepage in the Help tab for more information.
• Canadian English Dictionary
  
  Canadian English (en-CA) spellchecking dictionary
• Delicious Bookmarks
  
  Access your bookmarks wherever you go and keep them organized no matter how many you have.
• Download Statusbar
  
  View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar
• Extension List Dumper
  
  Dumps a list of the installed extensions.
• Fast Dial
  
  Visual Bookmarking
• FaviconizeTab
  
  The width of the specified tab becomes small up to the size of favicon.
• Firebug
  
  Web Development Evolved.
• Google Gears
  
  These are the gears that power the tubes!
• RetailMeNot
  
  Automatic notification of when coupon codes are available for the current site.
• Tab Mix Plus
  
  Tab browsing with an added boost.
• Tiny Menu
  
  Replace the standard menu bar with a tiny menu popup.
• Web Developer
  
  Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

When I was up in montreal, I think I had a good meeting with peers then. Being able to read and react to people is huge with me. I could tailor my presentation a little more… allow for q&a through out the presentation, or just at the end. See if i’m loosing people, or if they’re bored… reading an audience is huge… while not having any metrics on the audience is very difficult. I wonder how radio hosts do it…

oh well, it’s over… at least I’ve shown the architecture committee what else is out there.

My analogy is this, you have to paint a big wall, and you are given a single paint brush (Zend framework). Why use a paint brush when a paint roller or a spray gun (Symfony) would be a much better alternative. I’m not saying you can’t use the paint brush at all. Use the paint brush for the corners. Get the bulk of it done with the paint roller. Alternatively, tape the walls, floor, and ceiling, and spray everything. The choice should be use the best tools for the job.

In the end, people looking at the wall will not care how the wall is painted. However, if you’re a customer looking at paying someone to paint it… the customer will care. Said customer is looking at the quality of the workmanship, how much it will cost / the bottom line, and how long will it take? All of which leads to the choice of using better tools.

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okay… so this all got started from another website… www.botchedcode.com it’s super geek. I know it, but it keeps me entertained, and hopefully other programmers/nerds/geeks whatever. It’s completely computer programming related, but that’s my career.

synopsis: ping.fm updates all status updates for a bunch of places:

• Linkedin (I don’t know where status msgs are placed…)
• facebook
• twitter
• this blog (via plugin)
• various others places… (see ping.fm)

Updates can be sent from a phone, gtalk, http://ping.fm, email, bunch of methods…

so, now I can update one place, and microblog to all the usual spots.  MSN WLM bot doesn’t work…