Microsoft Office Accounting 2007 - FREE

From LifeHacker:

Windows only: Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007 is a new accounting suite designed with startups, small businesses, and eBay sellers in mind. Oh, and it's free.

Free? Microsoft software? Free? Sure enough, this surprisingly versatile package costs absolutely nothing. Certainly Microsoft's goal is to lure users to its $149 Office Accounting Professional 2007 suite, but I suspect plenty of business owners will find that Express does everything they need.

Specifically, the software can create quotes and invoices, track expenses, manage payrolls (via ADP's integrated payroll service), produce all kinds of reports, list items on eBay, track auction activity, send PayPal invoices, and much more.

Office Accounting Express 2007 requires Windows. And, no, you weren't dreaming: It's free. Thanks, M. Ahmad!— Rick Broida

Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007 [Microsoft IdeaWins]

My costume from Saturday Night's Halloween Party

I dressed up as my wife and my wife dressed up as me.  I thought it was funny as hell although we didn't get one damn vote for  best costume.



Click here to see more of me in a dress.

Firefox 2 Launches Officially

Mozilla, this evening, officially releases Firefox 2.  After some controversy yesterday when the exe was found and a link of the exe that was on a mirror FTP server spread around and many people started downloading before the release not knowing what exactly they were getting. 

Mozilla officials were extremely upset with the early spreading of the bits and spouted off why this was a bad thing to do.

But after a day of waiting it has been finally released and I am downloading now. 

Enjoy!!

Related Links:

The Anti-Release
Mozilla Releases Major Update to Firefox and Raises the Bar for Online Experience
Firefox

NHL: Big shake up this morning in Philly

The Flyers General Manager Bob Clarke resigned this morning stating he was “burned out” and coach Ken Hitchcock was fired.

It's about time.  This is what should of happened after the end of last season.  But now we're eight games into the season and you can argue that the season is shot for the Flyers.  With new coaches and young talent coming in it'll be awhile before they hit their stride.  By that time they may be to far behind to make the playoffs.

Personally, I don't like Hitchcock, of course I am bias he and his Dallas Star defeated the Sabres in '99 for the Stanley Cup.  But like I stated earlier this week he's geared towards the old NHL and hasn't or doesn't want to change for the new NHL that is geared for speed.  His Flyers are too slow and not quick enough.  Opponents are just going right around them and getting scoring chances and the defense isn't quick enough to get down the ice to score a goal.

This is just the start with the three players waived last week and the coach fired see some trades happening to get some speed in Philly.

Not to brag or anything, ok I am bragging, the Sabres are 8-0 after beating the Hurricanes on Friday and the Bruins on Saturday.

Related News:
Flyers GM Clarke resigns; Hitchcock Fired
NHL: The Philadelphia Flyers need to shake things up
Sabres stay unbeaten, match their best start

NHL: Sabres Jerseys Number One Seller

The NHL on Tuesday announced that Buffalo Sabres new jerseys are the number one seller on NHL.com since the Sabres unveiled their new logo in September 16, 2006.  Sales accounted for 10% of NHL.com’s total sales during that period.

Sabres jersey sales are up 900% from the same period last year.

OK I just don’t get it.  Do people really like the slug?  Or are they just supporting the team?  I am sure the look will “grow” on people.  I particularly love the “new” alternate jerseys, which are the old 1970’s blue and gold jerseys.  Of course they aren’t selling those jerseys on NHL.com.

My theory is that it’s just the diehard fans all bombarding the store at the same time to get the new digs and sales will flat line after the initial rush.

I wouldn’t mind though, a Sabres hat ;)

Related Links:
Sabres New Jersey a Hot Item
Buffalo Sabres Jerseys on NHL.com

My IE7 Experience

Microsoft released IE7 on Wednesday.  I went ahead and installed it on my laptop.  Let me tell you that I did not enjoy that installation.  After I download and run the file I a prompted that I need to install security updated for IE before I even install the browser. Well not wanting to get hacked with this security hole I go ahead and install it.  Five minutes later it says it needs to reboot.  Ugh!

Ok so I say yes reboot.  But the installer hangs and needs to be forced to end. That’s intuitive for novice users to do.

Once the system came back up the installer didn’t run and start where I left off. I had to restart the installer and it again asked me if I wanted to install security updates.  I again said yes thinking there might be more, as dumb as that sounds.  It checked for installs and ran the Malicious Software Removal tool again.  Then it went right into installing the browser finally.

It took about another five minutes.  After it completed it required ANOTHER REBOOT!!!  Holy crap two reboots to install a web browser.  Once the system came back I launched IE.  It has some nice UI features to the browser but I found some weird UI choices as well. For instance to set any options in the browser now has to be done in a control panel or something cause there is no more menu items across the top.

No File, Edit, BOOKMARKS.  How can you leave bookmarks off a browser?  

Anyway I went and checked out some of my sites.  Some are just not right at all.  Travis said that IE7 is interpreting display: block; in some cases as display: crazy; he had to do some conditional statements to get a work around working, another crappy work around for IE.

So far as a web developer not to happy that I know have to deal with another crappy browser from Microsoft.  The best part is now I need a virtual machine because I can not have both IE6 and IE7 on the same machine for testing.

Excuse me while I go rip my hair out.

If you’re not using Firefox yet, thugs are going to come to your house and beat up your first born.

Related Links:
Microsoft IE 7
IE7 vs Firefox 2: The memory usage showdown
Robert Scoble: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)
Firefox

NHL: The Philadelphia Flyers need to shake things up

The Buffalo Sabres are 6-0 after beating the Flyers on Tuesday 9-1.  You would think after getting embarrassed by Buffalo last year in the playoffs the Flyers would have made massive changes over the summer just to compete.

I was surprised to see over the summer that they didn’t do anything.  They kept their coach, even extending his contract by three years, Ken Hitchcock, who arguably is stuck in the old NHL of the pound and grind your way to victory.  They are still relying heavily on Peter Forsberg who had to have ankle surgery over the summer.  Thank god for the Flyers that he only needed surgery on one ankle cause if he needed it on both they were saying he’d be out till January.

Then there is their pitiful goal-tending.  Here’s a team that could use a new starting goal tender. As much as I love Marty Biron of the Buffalo Sabres, he could possibly save this team some face this year if the teams could work out a deal.  But the clincher is the feud that Hitchcock is having Robert Esche.  Esche apparently said his coach has an empty head.  Well guess who didn’t pull their goalie during the 9-1 route?  Guess it was a lesson in humility Hitchcock was teaching Esche.

Well as if the GM’s in Philly finally woke up and they started making some changes yesterday.  They put Petr Nedved, Niko Dimitrakos and Nolan Baumgartner on waivers and called up a couple of rookies with some passion from their farm team.  It’s a good first start clearing some of their dead weight from the first six games.  I still think they need to fire Hitchcock and get someone in there that the players respect cause right now they have no respect of their coach and once the respect is gone there is no fire in the team.

I guess you could say that the Flyers are the last team to figure out that this is the new NHL and they need to adapt to be able to compete.

Related News:
Sabres stay perfect with rout of Flyers (CNNSI)
Philly puts three players on waivers (CNNSI)
Flyers agree to three-year contract with Hitchcock (CNNSI)

*Disclaimer: I am a hardcore Buffalo Sabres fan but I watched intently over the summer expecting massive changes in Philly and now I think they need to really wake up and understand they are going to fail unless something is done.

OK now I am mad

I had a full post written. I went to save it and my session timed out and there was no way for me to get my post back.  I was writing a rant to and it just made me feel more like shit. 

Who actually writes their blog post in their blog software now-a-days anyways?  I guess that'll teach me.

Some cool links from MediaGab

Just wanted to share some cool links from my other site MediaGab.

• Bear McCreary - Battlestar Galactica Composer responds to an email inquiry I had sent him about the last five minutes from the latest episode "Precipice"
• Where has the metal gone? - new user Gummy vents his frustration about Rochester's radio station The Nerver switching formats.
• Lost (10/11/06) - Discussion of the latest episode of Lost.
• Tara Reid discusses botched boob job - cause Tara's boobs are at the forefront in entertainment news.
• Princeton Watergun Prank - funny stuff.
  

A Slick CSS Solution to Image Rollovers

Here is a simple and elegant solution to doing image rollovers using one image and css to position the image to the rollover state.