Great news: The DC Circuit of the US Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC can not enforce the "Broadcast Flag" that movie and television cartels want to put into future TV hardware. Basically, this little flag would tell your TiVo/Replay/VCR if it could or could not record the latest episode of American Idol or […]
Orson Scott Card, who wrote one of my all-time favorite books Ender’s Game, decided to post his thoughts on Star Trek in the L.A. Times (login may be required, that’s why there’s bugmenot). I’m not sure why he’s so negative on Star Trek, but he really didn’t like the series. The original “Star Trek,”
Thanks to Sandy for pointing out that the save my info checkbox for comments wasn’t working. I’ve fixed that and also have relaxed my tag stripping in comments. Bold, Italic, Paragraph, and A (link) tags will now render.
On the day he’s announced as new pope, there is already an extensive Wikipedia entry for Benedict XVI. How can Encyclopedia Britannica, and its ilk, compete with that? Things I learned about our new pope: At 78, he’s the oldest pope elected in over 380 years. He participated in the SEcond VAtican Council, which oversee
Super conservative and former Hitler Youth, Joseph Ratzinger has been elected pope by the college of Cardinal. Has the Church missed an opportunity for some much needed change? Only time will tell. Although there is no suggestion that he was involved in any atrocities, his service may be contrasted by opponents with the attitude of
Our local Fox affiliate aired a non-news consumer report story tonight that was simply ridiculous. Get this, Paer Shredders are DANGEROUS, epecially to your kids (and pets too)! Especially the cross cutting kind. Apparently, the shredder is simply waiting to lure your offspring and chop off their fingers. What evil little, umm…inamimate objects? Isn’t a
If you’ve got a couple domains that you run, you should check out http://www.dnsreport.com/ and use its tools to make sure everything is set up as it should be. It’ll tell you if your configuration is valid, the address is set to receive email, and also point out potential trouble spots. I used it and
My Dad’s been figuring out how to convert his music records to a digital format, since his stereo no longer has a turntable. The post has an article title Digital Transformation Revives Old Records which mentions the Audacity software project. You can also use a free, open-source program, Audacity (Win 95 or newer, Mac OS
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Couldn’t find one so whipped one up myself. Tested on Firefox and I suspect it won’t work in Safari. For some reason I can’t get the new window to get focus(). This bit of javascript code grabs whatever you have selected (preferable an address) and displays it in google maps. Drag this Google Maps linksto
Along with some layout tweaks, I now provide an RSS feed of comments left on my posts. I also realized that you could leave a comment without supplying a valid email address and have fixed that bug.