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It's a question I've been meaning to answer on this blog for some time now, but never really had it down to one or two or three sentences... until now...

DORK – A socially awkward, wardrobe challenged individual. That’s saying it nicely; notes from other sites “A stupid, inept, or foolish person”. That’s just mean.

NERD – Has deep intelligence in certain topics yet suffers from social awkwardness and could use some help with their wardrobe (although the tight high-water pants are in now)

GEEK – Has a breadth of knowledge over a diverse set of seemingly random topics and has the ability to go deep and gain an expert’s understanding on any particular topic. Also has a stylin wardrobe (most of the time)

Have thoughts, opinions or ideas about what a Dork, Nerd, or Geek is? Do share, post them here…

You have a personalized email address (name@domain.com), or use GMail as your primary personal email account. You also carry around a corporate BlackBerry. So... why not get your personal email on your blackberry?

How? Easy - First, use GMail as your personal web mail client; then install the Gmail Blackbery application on your blackberry. Viola, along with getting your work email on your bb, you’re now also two clicks away from managing your personal email.

The how to:

If you only have a gmail account, skip to step 3.

1 – configure Gmail as your personal webmail client. This assumes that you have a personalized email address that you can connect to via POP3. In Gmail, click on settings, select "add an account", and follow the directions...

2 – install Gmail on your BB Bring up your Blackberry web browser. Navigate to www.gmail.com the page should prompt you to download the Gmail client. That same page will know what version you need, so all you need to do is click on download and install.

3 – Log into GMAIL. Login using your user name and password.

You should be all set.

Have other BB hacks? Post them here

I was eager to try out Apple's Safari on my PC primarily cause I can't stand IE; Firefox has a really beautiful memory leak; and Safari is touted as being 50% faster than those other browsers. I couldn't wait...

Note that it's still in BETA...

My first impression, it made my browsing experience feel like a browsing on a mac. Except for he fact that none of the common shortcut keys worked. Alt + < or > combo for back/forward did not register; the back and forward buttons on my mouse, just made a sad clicking sound; and the space and Shift + Space to go up/down, didn't work. All minor issues, unless you prefer keyboard shortcuts as opposed to using a mouse.

The speed, definitely a noticeable difference.. 50% faster? Possibly.

Then i went to GMail. That's when it wasn't 50% faster anymore. It felt as if everyone was using GMail at the same time. Massive lag. I authored and sent a message. Only half of it went though. Apparently, the text box cut the message in half. must have interpreted some special character in a weird way. Then, the application seemed to haver gotten into some sort of AJAX loop that caused GMail to lock out my account for suspicious activity. Grrr... I was back in a few hours, but I wasn't happy. Makes me wonder if this was released a tad too early. But to be fair, I'm not sure if this is an issue with GMail not supporting Safari on PC or Safari on PC not supporting GMail.

Some speculation... it's understandable that Apple wants to release Safari on PC now, especially after making the statement "want to build applications on the iPhone? Just write them to work on Safari". I think this made Safari an integral key for iPhone developers on a PC.

So I'm now back to Firefox with closing and restarting every few hours until the next release...

A few months back, I wrote a little snippet about rolling your own CMS. Although still my preferred method of tackling the IT Industry wide CMS problem, you sometimes need a solution up & running with the quickness. So if rolling your own is not an option and you need something profession, cheap and in a demonstrate-able state ASAP, consider Alfresco.

Although it's billed as an Open Source Enterprise Content Management System, it does have Web Content Management Capabilities through a Web Content Management Module. (This may sound like an afterthought, but it's not; it's actually quite robust and is built on a very powerful enterprise scale infrastructure).

Alfresco is an open source J2EE application built on Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, JSF, and all your other Java best of breeds technologies. Best of all, it's founded & built by some of the people behind Documentum and Interwoven (among others). They've brought together their lessons learned and best practices in both the Web & Enterprise Content Management spaces and built Alfresco in an open source manner. It's really a beautiful thing. Their business model is the RedHat model - provide a kick ass product and make your money off support.

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