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  1. Actually Dreamweaver is easy to use but a nightmare to learn, well it was anyway. Maybe look at Amazon for a Dreamweaver for Dummies book.

    But for what your doing there was a program from the Dreamweaver people called Contribute that just does the content management of website. I tried it "again a long time ago" and it was fairly straight forward.

    You could use NVU for managing the site its free but very basic but easy. I personally gave up on these type of pages because Steve Jobs made it way to simple and fast just to use iWeb.

    You know it's not to late to start using Wordpress great for online newsletters and getting comments from the club. Plus you can let anyone edit or add content. You could incorporate it into the excising site. It would be worth giving Wordpress a try, your very tech savvy I'm sure you could do some cool things with it.

  2. I haven't used Dreamweaver in a long time but I remember it being static pages (web 1.0) sorry for using that term.

    The future is Database driven sites using style sheets. Like wordpress, blogger etc. The smart thing to do is to learn how to work with these style sheets (themes) and let the content management software do the rest.

    If you just want a webpage then Wordpress or the many other blog engines are the way to go. Easy to use and edit and very portable.

  3. Short video of the Mac Pro. As you can see although the components are basically the same the configuration are more server like. The top of the line Pro has 2 X Quad Core Xeons. Mac graphic cards are flashed with a different firmware and Macs don't use a software type BIOS instead using Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI).

  4. This reminds me of a funny story. About fifteen years or so ago there was a show on MTV called MTV (Xtreme) sports, the host was Dan Cortez. One episode they had the Blue Angles, they were at a air-show and they followed them around. At the end of Dan's interview with one of the Angles he ask if he does "anything more extreme like skateboard". I couldn't believe he asked such a dumb question.

  5. Just want to add that Leopard is getting better the more I use it.

    I just had like five apps open on one desktop one being safari. I wanted to use Firefox for posting to a wordpress blog, I open firefox and my bookmarks are all different then in sarafi same with Omniweb. I remember a app I purchased a long time ago on my old machine that synced bookmarks called bookit. I did a Spotlight search for bookit and my conformation e-mail showed up "it was saved on .Mac account" from years ago and sync to my new Mac, cool.

    I then download bookit and mouse click to Spaces for a empty desktop do the install. The app ask for authorization #, I Space back to e-mail space and the new Mail app has the numbers highlight with a dropdown menu when I mouse over it. The menu is to create/manage contact for address book or to view larger, so if it was a phone number and you need to see it from across the room or something like that.

    None of this is a big deal but all these little things add up.

  6. I like a lot of the little things, the dictionary has Wikipedia, (spacebar +command) spotlight, now type in equation 2+2 it's also a calculator, the iCal icon displays the correct date without being opened. Really like the widget maker in Safari, assigned a mouse click for spaces, the new alex voice and improver preview.

    It installed fine on my new iMac but my old PPC powerbook the installed failed. a second try with archive and install went smooth as silk.

    So far very happy with the new cat.

  7. I just downloaded Pull Me Under, These Walls and The Root of All Evil from itunes. Listening to These Walls right now definitely hearing some ELP musical influence and a Iron Maiden writing style. The drums are very powerful and I like the guitar not a million meaningless notes stuffed into 15 seconds. Don't like the string section though.

    Pull Me Under has some Rush and Ronnie James Dio influences with some Yngwie like guitar lead. I can see why any classic rock / metalhead would like this.

  8. So what is the absolute best Dream Theater songs? You guys listen to them all the time I tried to listen to them a long while ago and though they sounded like a cross between Rush and Megadeath. So I want to know what I'm missing.

    Just wanted to add that I have nothing against Rush or Megadeath. I was a Rush fan 20 something years ago, still have my 2112 concert T and have always liked Dave Mustaine.

  9. The 8 days may have had a little to do with it but it's not like the rockies were sitting on a couch eating potato chips everyday.

    The red sox like I said earlier just had the magic, the pitching staff really came together and did the best pitching I seen them do all year. And the bats got hot for some of the sox that had .160 averages all year were .400+.

  10. I got my copy of 10.5 and the T shirt with me right now but I won't be out of work till 10 or 11 tonight. I got to the apple store a 6:15 and no line, just tons of people packed like sardines around all the mac watching demos. They had plenty of employees with the wireless credit card machines and stacks of leopard, was in and out in just minutes.

    I'll install tonight on the iMac and maybe the powerbook not sure yet.