One of the larger employers in the Dulles Area, is moving its headquarters from Virginia to New York City. It’ll still have "significant operations" in Dulles, presumably their data centers. according to the Post, most of the 4,000 people employed here will remain in Northern Virginia. Locally, the move is not expected to make an […]
Information week links to a report from the Computer and Communications Industry Association calculating that Fair Use exceptions in the US account for $4.5 trillion in annual revenue. They also calculate that the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. Given the source of the study, its hard to believe it at face
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Green Non-profit seeks IT Director: for 45-55k you can "have significant experience in management of technology projects and teams. S/he will work with the team and the Chief Business Officer to develop clear technology performance standards and create and implement strategies for meeting those standards." As long as you have "Three to five years solid
In an effort to learn a new skill and get some much needed exposure to another programming language, I’ve started learning Python. Its a very neat language, and its use of whitespace to organize code pleases the code style nazi that Sandy has instilled in me. Reading the code itself, its refreshing how uncluttered it
Jamesr on Column Two sets the bar pretty high when he observes that it costs $5 million to write a CMS. On the face of it, I can’t argue with it. The temptation with writing one from scratch is that it so easy, and tempting, to have something functional with a pretty minimal investment (say
Adobe’s PDF Reader and Acrobat software are up there pretty high on my list of bloated windows software that I’ll never put on a Windows maching I get. Its slow, bloated, and takes forever to launch, which is particularly annoying when you want to read something right now! Viw Download Squad, comes news of Sumatra
I needed a simple way to find hard bounces from a mail log yesterday. Usually, you hook up a script to listen for bounced messages at an email address like "list-bounces@example.com". The script receives an email message and parses it to figure out if and why it bounced. I decided to take the opposite approach,
The long awaited TivoHD has been officially announced. Its Tivo’s more affordable high-definition tuner, costing $299 compared to the Series3 which retails for almost $800. While the TiVo HD is really a refined Series 3 under the hood and not a half-breed, the branding and the push make it clear that TiVo is hoping that
Gizmodo has a short video demonstrating Nintendo’s Wii Fit, which uses the Balance Board accessory. It seems like a neat little gimmick, and for some folks maybe a good motivation to get more exercise. I wonder if the soccer heading mini-game would actually improve my game. Not that getting a Wii will be any easier