I am a IT guy in my fellowship. Three years ago, I started to learn PHP. I developed the first version contact management system. Now, I will use open-source system, may be I will develop some codes. I may add some aJax function.

There are some open source existing system in my fellowship. Mailman is the email list system. It enhance the communications among the members. Now, we have an email address which reach all members. Moreover, I used CopperMine as the photo album. Previously, we had a big photo. If someone take a photo his/her camera, he/she needs to send to everyone. In most of the cases, he/she forgot about it. Now they need to send it to me , I will upload for them. Or I trusted him/her enough and give an account to him/her, he/she can do it by himself/herself.

I have been played around with FireFox 2.0 for weeks.
I am addicted with its spelling checker. It checks my typing live. This is so convenient.
Moreover, the new Google search bar is cool too. It has a keyword suggestion function.

Fire Fox 2.0

I used to buy a new computer every two years. My home got three to four computers. I am still using these computers. For some of very old computers, I use them as a file server. I have not put them into rubbish bin. Some of my friends put their computers into rubbish bin. Actually, many old computers are still useful. They may be not good to play games. But they are still good to do word process. I have hear there are some version of Linux aims to run in low performance computer. Please, Please, Please don't treat your old computer as a piece of rubbish.

I remember I have implemented a system that has very high flexibility. But The preformance of system is very very poor. Thus, the system has not any commerical value. I didn't care about that. This is because the system was to verify the thesis is right. However, in the business world, we need to find a balance point of these.

I am thinking how to make my IT skill better. I focused too much to enhance my skills. IT is not just a technology and also a concept as well. As I remeber, at the first, Internet was only using in Universities. It has became for public when browser came. Internet is not using text anymore. This is a new concept.