First and foremost, I am not having issues with TYPO3 as my content management system.  I don't want to hurt it's feelings, because it works pretty well for me.  Lately, though, I have heard more and more talk of Joomla, so I thought I'd give it a shot.

I went ahead I installed it on my server.  It was only about 10MB unzipped to upload, which makes uploading easy and fast.  After that, I navigated to the site in my browser.  After inputing a little info about my MYSQL database, I had a site.

I will say that it seems quite different in concept from TYPO3.  First off, I am used to a easily editable sitemap.  It was not quite as intuitive in Joomla, but once I found the location to create new pages, they were easily generated.  Unfortunately, it looks as if the pages must be specified as a certain type of content upon creation, such as blog or news.

I will continue to look at Joomla, especially as they are coming out with a new version soon.  Check back soon to see my continuing experiments with Joomla.

I have heard stories, "tales" if you so choose, of people with clean desktops on their computer.  After years of experience on computers, I know this is a preposterous proposal.  But recently, after filling up the 200GB hard drive of my MacBook Pro with random documents and web clippings, I decided it was time to investigate the possibility of such a place.

I started at the beginning, a very good place to start.  It seemed logical to go through everything on my desktop and sort it into the correct folders within my system.  BUT, I was a little too busy to do that when I was thinking of it. So i just put everything into a "Desktop Crap" folder.  Surprisingly, within a week it was all full of files again.

I am currently trying out a little App called Hazel.  It is pretty sweet, as it looks at whatever lands on my desktop and, according to rules I configure, it will sort the files automatically.  It also dumps anything in my trash for more than a week, and sets a limit on the size of my trashcan.  Now if I could get it to do my dishes.

Captcha, the Image Generating Anti-Spam Powerhouse of the internet is now taking a beating from strippers.  Well, not actual strippers, but rather a new Windows virus that prompts users to aide the spammers by bypassing Captcha security to get entry into secured logins.  So lusty losers will be helping spammers fill your forums with bogus posts and choke your blogs with enhancement advertisements.

Here's how it works.  CAPTCHA generally makes a little image with scrambled letters an shows it on a login form or the like.  You have to type that in so the site knows you are not a robot :). But these guys are beating that by having some real human type that in for the online spam bots.

I think this is really smart, smart enough that they could get a real job that is not in their mother's basement.  But they are probably too ugly to be seen in the light of day.

Read More: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,307396,00.html

We are currently revamping our online buying here at work, and basic PayPal prompts one too many times for users to log in, even if they don't have to.

Seriously, try to Google Image Search for a snow covered bush and all you will get are pictures of President Bush and Tony Snow.  Apparently nobody says shrubbery on the internet, and hedges don't work either, so here is the string I had to search for to find what I was after:

"bushes snow -george -tony -sophia -brittany -john"

I personally think this is just stupid, and I'm going to go take the pictures my self.  I just hope it snows before the project is due.