It’s a little delayed, but being married tends to bring up situations that didn’t exist before. If anyone is interested in seeing anything of the wedding, you can check it out on my personal web page at http://zach.010techpros.com/

As for getting back to posting regularly, expect a change from how I used to do it. I will still write my own posts, but expect more informational posts from other sites piped in.

For those of you who read my blog regularly, I’ve slacked off a little on posting new material. The main reason behind this is I’ve been busy planning the final portions of my wedding that will occur in late August. That and work has been a little crazy, but that’s a different story.

Please check back in a few days after I make it through the 4th weekend and I should be back to more of a normal posting schedule.

So there may be a few things that you don’t know about me, like that I love free stuff, or that I’m a movie buff who has been looking for a way to actually track what I have without creating my own piece of software. Well, I found one while getting something free about a week ago. Over at GiveAwayOfTheDay.com, they had book tracking software (which interested me for my overstuffed bookshelves) that used the ISBN number to pull all the info about the book in (All My Books).

Great! I thought. When I visited the creators website, I saw that they had other tracking software, one for movies in particular (All My Movies). Of course I wanted to see how well it worked, and wondered how they would pull off the same trick they did with the books. Well, thanks to sites like IMDB.com and Amazon, they have all the actors listed, screenshots, the movie synopsis, and way more that they simply pull into your program after you either enter the title, OR even better the barcode that gurantees you get the right information and don’t pull in the cartoon version of one of your favorite movies.
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By Liam Tung, ZDNet.com Australia, News.com
Posted on ZDNet News: Jun 19, 2008 6:09:26 AM

The makers of Wine claim that version 1.0 is the first such “stable” release and have said that although compatibility is not perfect, thousands of applications are reported to “work very well.”

Member and former president of Linux Australia Jonathon Oxer told ZDNet.com.au that the Wine project is “an attempt to make Windows irrelevant.”
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The folks who brought us Zillow and Expedia today unveil Glassdoor — a site that could have a powerful effect on the business landscape. Rich Barton, Zillow’s CEO and co-founder of Glassdoor, calls the new venture a TripAdvisor for companies.

Glassdoor sets up a way for people to rate the companies they work for — anonymously, of course. A Microsoft employee can respond to a survey of 16 questions about job satisfaction, enter information about his or her salary, reply to essay-style questions, and give CEO Steve Ballmer an approval rating. In exchange, the employee would get full access to the site — a “give to get” formula intended to convince people to participate.

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