Now’s your chance, Ecost has 40 hour tivo’s free after $150 rebate. You can then get the lifetime registrations ($299 i think) if you’re like me and don’t like recurring bills. Or else pay $12/month. If you get one, please use this email address when registering your tivo: regis AT oscarm DOT org. Update: Sandy […]
I used the time on the airplane to devour Freakonomics and the Tipping Point. I found Freakonomics a much more informative book, and although the authors claimed that there was no unifying theme for it, all the stories reinforced quite well their notion that looking at datasets in new, unexpected ways can reveal some startling
EHomeUpgrade is running a quick poll on Digital Rights Management. The questions are interesting but, it must be the poll software they used, some of the questions are really more than one question shoe horned into a checkbox website poll model. For example, you can check both Would you "rent" DRM protected digital media –
I report, you decide. Now, in my book, bringing down the US Custom’s office isn’t a sign that your security strategy is “working”. According to Forrester, the fact that this wasn’t as bad as the last windows worm shows “Shows That Microsoft’s Security Strategy Is Working“. But Windows remains the battleground for worm writers, and
Two weeks ago, Patty bought herself a Mac Mini. Today, I saw on the Security Awareness Blog that there’s a new Switch site at Apple who are ditching Windows.
Someone’s finally tried to leave automated comment spam on my blog. I noticed this late Monday night and had to turn off comments as a result. I’ve put in some behind the scenes measures to prevent it and hopefully it’ll take care of it. If not, I’ll have to put in one of those funky
It looks likely that my earlier PC troubles were caused by a bad power supply. Thanks to Jason who pointed out that it might be heat, but since the symptoms happened right as I started it up, when all the components are relatively cool, I didn’t think it’d be heat related. I swapped in the
An MIT professor is debunking video game myths. Hillary Clinton should read this before embarking on any crusade. But no research has found that video games are a primary factor or that violent video game play could turn an otherwise normal person into a killer.
My main desktop PC, the one I play warcraft and occasionally code in, has been bizarrely unstable lately. In a way that hasn’t been too easy to diagnose. At first, it was only when I was in Windows, it would lock up or suddenly reboot. Usually right in the middle of a melee. Yesterday, it
Mobile GMAPS displays Google maps and Keyhole imagery on J2ME phones and devices. Its available under a Creative Commons license for non-commercial uses only. Plus, they use a picture of the phone I have on their website! I’ll have to play around with this…