I want to encourage the web development and social media community, especially in Houston, to put their computers to work and setup the world community grid on their computers. The application runs in the background of your computer and analyzes data packets that will eventually help to benefit humanity. When you need your computer’s full power, the application automatically stops using your processing power so that you do not sacrifice your work quality.

Please join the Houston Social Media and Web Dev Community once you setup your account and let’s show the world how much we care.

The first online OS called Parakey was purchased by Facebook. Parakay was created by Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt of FireFox. Evidently this will be different from Google Gears, I think it will be more of a flash based OS.

Apple released their faster MacBook today, but there is no mention of a change in the MacBook Pro line. Over the past 4 years I have been slowly convinced by my co-workers that an Apple is the best way to go, especially in my line of work.

With in the past month, my wife and I decided to get a MacBook Pro, but we were going to wait until the new version was released. I heard rumors about something new coming out very soon and I have been getting excited lately. Unfortunately I was disappointed when I loaded the Apple website today and found that it was the regular MacBook line that was now faster.

Does anyone know when the new top-of-the-line MacBooks Pros are coming out? We are looking at getting the 17 inch.

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about iLike.com and the song/artist guess game. Well, I noticed that you get points for each guess you get right, but you don’t get anything deducted for guesses that are incorrect. The only thing that happens is that your percentage correct goes down, but no one sees that information.

With this in mind, I decided to beat the 27,000-something point leader so I setup a macro to automatically guess the 3rd song in the list every few seconds. I left it running and came back several hours later and it had a “rails” error, but I refreshed the page and my score had jumped from a few thousand to over 8000. After a few more hours I received a message that said “Wow! You’ve taken all of the available questions we have right now.” I couldn’t believe it; my plan had failed. It topped out at 4000 questions (even though many of them repeated themselves). I attached a screen shot of my current ranking.