Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

I’ve been playing with the Beta all week, and am pleasantly surprised.  I also loaded the Windows Live Essentials, and have been playing with some other non-Microsoft goodies.  For example, iTunes.  It runs wonderfully on the new OS – Windows 7 seems to have so much less clutter than XP or Vista. One of the features I’m really enjoying is the new version of the Messenger in the Windows live essentials. Along with the Live mail – I’m not missing outlook on this machine – although I only have my hotmail account in the mail software.  As with any Beta on a test Mule – I’m using it sporadically. Getting my work done on the main machine – with the test mule notebook sitting on the side of the desk – occasionally using it with the interrupters on it.  So far – in addition to iTunes and Messenger, I’m setting up Twhirl for my twittering and doing some Facebook stuff.  Mainly the social networking sites and the other things that keep popping up while I’m worki...

Well, with the recent changes going on - I've not been adding stuff to Cole's Notes for quite a while - so Here is a posting that will be the last one for a while. Alas, this is not an April fool's joke - it's all too real. Yet Another Web Development Blog » Who Killed the Webmaster? In 1995, the “professional web design firm” was single, talented person working from home. Today it’s a diverse team of back-end developers, front-end developers, graphic artists, UI designers, database and systems administrators, search engine marketing experts, analytics specialists, copywriters, editors, and project managers. The industry has simply grown so specialized, so quickly, for one person to hardly be a master of anything more than a single strand in the web. So for a while, there won't be any postings here for a while. April 1