Seems lots of folks are talking about podcasting again, and I have to say the personal radio show style broadcast that people are still raving about hasn’t won me over. But that doesn’t mean I’m not a big fan of what is going on – or of content that now is being made available.

Some minor adjustments around here today including an updated zeitgest with some browser stats from December where unlike many other sources I haven’t seen much of a change in my [abnormally I’m sure] high Firefox usage.

Lets start the new year off by giving away some free (to me) things…

For you Netflix subscribers out there there is a new service called Netflix Friends where you can create a group of “friends” and share your movie ratings and recommendations with others. Or if you’re already in friends and want me on your list let me know.

I also have 6 gmail invites up for grabs. First come first served.

For either mail me your name & email address to placenamehere@gmail.com

Touting it much awaited, Opera has released a beta of their version 8.0 browser for Windows. First glance over the change log and there looks like more of an emphasis on interface (including speakable commands on Windows) then rendering engine changes in this go around, but I haven’t had time to take it for a spin on my other machine yet.

Merry Christmas web geeks!

Just came across a lengthy discussion on personal web design. The topic isn’t new but I do still agree with the premise that there isn’t enough experimentation with current technologies of presenting content via the web (although to be perfectly honest I haven’t been actively looking for it either).

I think the biggest surprise for me in terms of this discussion taking place as we approach 2005 is that there still seems to be a lot of people who are using standards support in browsers as a major factor in the way they use (or not use) style sheets.