"Do you know how to make God laugh? You tell him your plans." Hari Sheldon – Foudation's Fear
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 10th, 2010
The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” iPad 3G user e-mail addresses leaked by AT&T servers. Note to Apple: The device needs to be more useful than a less expensive netbook, not less useful. Apple cachet and fanboys will only get you so far. It’s still just a shiny and [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 12th, 2010
The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” Windows 7 Activation Technologies Update coming down the pike, will tell you things you (should) already know — Engadget. If you don’t want MS snooping around your PC have a look ay how to avoid the update that adds their nasty little “Windows [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 18th, 2010
The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” Nerd Merit Badges – Welcome. I can honestly say I’ve earned many of these…
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 16th, 2010
Editorial: Engadget on Windows Phone 7 Series — Engadget. The phone geek at Engadget are really excited about MS getting up on their hind legs and actually releasing what looks like an interesting mobile OS. They rewrote the whole thing from the ground up. It’s about time. My last taste of a MS mobile OS [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 12th, 2010
Where do I sign up? People have wondered for years what Google might be up to with all that dark fiber it had bought up around the country. Now, we may have an answer: delivery of open-access, fiber-to-the-home Internet service at speeds of 1Gbps. That's right: 1Gbps. via Your new ISP? Google launches 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 14th, 2009
Digital Domain – AT&T Takes the Fall for the iPhone’s Glitches – NYTimes.com. The issue seems to be with the iphone’s radios, not with the AT&T network. Don’t get me wrong I love my iphone as an internet device and music player, even for some portable gaming action. Not so much as a phone. We’re [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 2nd, 2009
Apple has released a beta version of firmware 3.1 to developers, which is includes the following enhancements: * Options for MMS are back on AT&T, but not sending or receiving. * Non-destructive video editing means trimming a clip no longer saves over the original video but gives you the option to “Save as copy…” * [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 27th, 2009
I’ve had a chance to spend a week with the new iPhone. Favorite new features: Landscape mode available in many more places Automatic login screen for encrypted wi-fi Speedier!! Upgraded CPU from 400 to 600 mhz Oleophobic screen coating (fewer greasy fingerprints) Brighter screen Louder external speaker Better (but not perfect) Bluetooth profiles Retained the [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 2nd, 2009
Security Fix – Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension. I didn’t really need another reason. I already had plenty, but nevertheless the boys from Redmond provide another reason to loathe them and their products. During an update to the .NET framework MS quietly installs a Firefox extension that allows websites to install software on your [...]
My 18 month old Acer Expire (or is that Aspire?) 5520 appears to have died a gruesome death. It ran hot IMHO since I got it. I called the support number because of an issue with Bluetooth right after I got it and they said that it was normal to run a bit hot. How [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Oct 9th, 2007
I’ve been a Palm user since the Handspring Visor I got back in 1999. I’ve been through a Zire 31, a Tungsten C and most recently a Palm TX. I like my TX, but I don’t want to carry both it and a phone around. I looked at the various Treo models, but wasn’t really [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 29th, 2007
This says a lot about the lack of effective regulation in the US: Japan’s Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future – washingtonpost.com Perhaps more important, competition in Japan gave a kick in the pants to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT), once a government-controlled enterprise and still Japan’s largest phone company. With the help of government [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 23rd, 2007
More important than the wild claim that eliminating piracy would somehow put money into farmer’s packets are the unintended consequences of putting the FCC in charge of policing the internet: NBC: Peer-to-peer costs corn farmers money But the bigger issue here is that NBC wants the FCC to require ISPs to filter content. How this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 2nd, 2007
I upgraded to WordPress 2.1, we’ll see how that works. I need to do some work to update plugins, like the one that caused my sidebar customizations to vanish. And where’s my spell chrcker? Arrggggh!!!! UPDATE: I got my sidebar to work again and also got the WPG2 plug-in working with Gallery 2.1.2. Also found [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 14th, 2006
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 12th, 2006
I spent some time improving the server that hosts my site. I upgraded the operating system to the recently released SME Linux 7.0. I also added a RAID 1 mirror set using a pair of Segate 160 GB IDE drives. One of these days when I get some spare change I’ll bump the memory up [...]
Posted in Blog Post on May 21st, 2006
It’s a good sign that both sides of the aisle recognize the importance of continued net neutrality. TechWeb | News | Net Neutrality Finds Bipartisan Support
Posted in Blog Post on May 10th, 2006
TAP: Vol 11, Iss. 10. Innovation, Regulation, and the Internet. Lawrence Lessig. The Case for Competitive Neutrality If there’s a better explanation of why this is important to a free and open internet, please tell me: The Internet is the fastest-growing computer network in history. It is not, however, the first computer network. There were [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 23rd, 2006
Why Doctors So Often Get It Wrong – New York Times With all the tools available to modern medicine — the blood tests and M.R.I.’s and endoscopes — you might think that misdiagnosis has become a rare thing. But you would be wrong. Studies of autopsies have shown that doctors seriously misdiagnose fatal illnesses about [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 23rd, 2006
Study Plays Down Export of Computer Jobs – New York Times I’m a technical analyst at a major B2B e-commerce company, so this strikes home for me. Maybe I get to keep my job a while longer.
Date: 07/30/2006