Charlie Chaplin - One of the Greatest Speeches Ever Made

Surviving the World

I am an ardent fan of Dante Shepherd, the owner and creator of Surviving the world. His is a unique kind of blog where he draws on a blackboard discussing the many idiosyncrasies of life. He creates one "lesson" a day and posts it on the blog. While a lot of his musings on the blackboard are good, I was absolutely floored by today's lesson and just had to share it here. It is genius!

Subscribe to his blog here if you are using an RSS reader. The daily lessons he gives are quite interesting and very enlightening reads.

A free CD/DVD burning software?

Want to burn CD's or DVD's without having to pay for expensive software? Well, CDBurnerXP is the perfect alternative for you. CDBurnerXP is a free software that allows you to burn CD's, DVD's, ISO's , audio CD's, bootable CD's, as well as data verification and multi language interfaces. For the average user, it's like Nero without the cost.

CDBurnerXP even burns Blu-Ray and HD-DVD's as well. The software currently works on all the major platforms including Windows XP, Vista and 7. It has yet to come out on Linux, which I'm hoping will be soon.

I am a fan of free software that work just as well (almost always better) than paid software. I don't know why; but free software just do what you want it to. Maybe it's because their makers are altruistic and genuinely want to make a difference in the world by making software that just work. Anyway, it doesn't matter. What matters is that the software is free and does the job. With the web becoming more open, it is only a matter of time before cloud computing (which are mostly free software/affordable) becomes ubiquitous allowing human knowledge to be shared by all. Overpriced junk posing as good software don't stand a chance in the new world unless they embrace the new direction the world is taking and reduce their prices to affordable levels.