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Collective Soul Releases New Album

Jason Bean — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:51:26 +0000

Collective Soul is easily one of my favorite rock groups that I can think of enjoying for so long. They’ve always had great music, but have never really had the huge media fame and larger-than-life persona that other groups have had… and I like it that way.

Their major hits like "December", "Gel", "Shine" and "The World I Know" were popular during my college years. However, it wasn’t until I stumbled across their live concert recording for "Home" with the Atlanta Youth Symphony Orchestra that I really gained a huge love for their music. That CD and DVD is absolutely the BEST ever!

Collective Soul has now released their 2nd album since "Home" and they continue to deliver meaningful and rocking music with each release. The hit "Staring Down" has already been receiving lots of airplay and is sure to be another time-tested hit from the band.

I’ve had the opportunity to see the group in concert twice and they put on a great show. After both concerts I felt so energized and enthusiastic it was almost euphoric. I get the same feeling almost any time I listen to their music.

Collective Soul will continue to be among the groups I will support buy purchasing their albums and going to concerts whenever possible.

Image: Product and group image from official website

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Collective Soul Releases New Album

A Welcome to Your Browsing Day – Firefox

Jason Bean — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:31:00 +0000

I spend lots of time in front of my computer and that time expands from beginning of my work day to the majority of my free and personal time between family responsibilities and tasks. I love breakfast but I rarely ever sit down, eat breakfast and read the paper. That’s so old school right? I do somewhat of the equivalent though with my browser at every startup.

I have a collection of web pages that open in tabs automatically when I start my browser each session. This gives me a variety of launch tasks to take advantage of as I start my work day and other periods after coming back to the computer.

Gmail – gives me the opportunity to check my "business" email account for items of interest
Yahoo! Mail – is the email account I use for mainly email from friends and family
BrightKite – give me the opportunity to "check-in" wherever I’m working that day
Startlike Outdoors – serves as a launch and portal page with a great picture of nature to start my day

Maybe you want to open your banking page, or your company’s intranet site, or your email, or anything else you can think of to open. Whatever you want to see first to get your day started.

You can do this with your own browser and select your own start pages in Mozilla Firefox. In Internet Explorer, go to Tools > Internet Options and the "General" tab. You just place each page you want to startup on a separate line.

Let your computer be your new morning paper. Nothing will replace that first cup of coffee though right?

Image: Composite of browser tabs and opened tabs shown together

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A Welcome to Your Browsing Day – Firefox

A Little Bit of Windows Live Confusion

Jason Bean — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:51:04 +0000

There’s a new URL in town and you can get to it by going to http://my.live.com. If you were me, you’d see this when you went there.

That’s all cool, but then I was clicking around in my account and looking at my settings and when I clicked on “Home” (http://home.live.com) I saw this:

Are these both not “Windows Live”? Why the conflicting homepages? This is just confusing. I like the features of the My.Live.com version, but I like the look (the sun, weather, date in the header) of the Home.Live.com version.

Can someone please explain?

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A Little Bit of Windows Live Confusion