Example: "The model is where the data comes from. It can be a gateway to web services, a data layer to the database, a file system manager, and so forth. It is completely ignorant of the view." Yes! The author got it right! However, many will still try to mistakenly use the word "agnostic" in place of "ignorant". Ironically, this is out of pure ignorance.

For the record, inhuman objects cannot be agnostic, a term meaning that someone (read: a person) denies that God's existence is provable. Programs, databases, networks, objects, etc; can, however, be ignorant and indifferent to the existence of other inanimate objects. Ironically, agnostics, by definition are ignorant to the truth that God exists (a discussion for another day).

For those that may not be familiar with "Web 2.0" it refers collectively to the social networking sites such as MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, etc. So anyway, I now have a Facebook account. I added a link to it at the bottom of this site. I guess I always saw these sites as somewhat of a distraction on a personal level, and rightly so, I spent hours on it last night getting setup and just dorking around. Many of the things that Facebook provides I was already doing and I guess I saw this as a duplication of effort (Blogging, quotes, links, email, photos, etc.). I will admit, however, that it's networking of people is unparalleled.

So, long story short (too late), you can visit or friend me on Facebook now but just don't expect too much. I guess I am old school in this respect and still prefer emails.

My answer to this is a search portal within my site. If you go to Search at the top of the screen you will be presented with a screen filled text boxes representing site searches, effectively combining all the search capabilities of the sites listed into one convenient screen.

So if you want to search for a local business, type the business name into the Yellow Pages box and press Enter. If you want to search for an image, type in the name of the image into the Google Images textbox and press Enter. You get the idea. Your search will be executed and your results will be presented inside troyedwards.com without another window opening. To me this is very cool and much more convenient.

What is Woot and who's behind it?

Woot.com is an online store and community that focuses on selling cool stuff cheap. It started as an employee-store slash market-testing type of place for an electronics distributor, but it's taken on a life of its own. We anticipate profitability by 2043 – by then we should be retired; someone smarter might take over and jack up the prices. Until then, we're still the lovable scamps we've always been. But don't take our word for it: see what the online community has to say at this Wikipedia article.

I see only one item, do you sell anything else?

ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image.