Internet users rejoice: one of the world’s top spammers has been indicted! Only another ten billion to go. No, there aren’t ten billion spammers at present, despite the evidence of your in-box. From what I’ve heard, there are only about 200 large spam operations at any one time. But that makes little difference when, like [...]
Archive of entries posted on May 2007
“Network Magic: Printer and File Sharing Made Easy!”
A long time ago, I bought a license for the ZoneAlarm Pro software firewall. I don’t use it anymore (no reflection on ZoneAlarm, which was excellent the last time I used it, I just don’t see sufficient need for it any longer to justify installing it), but I still sometimes get e-mails from Zone Labs, [...]
Doctor Who Coming to an End, Again
It is with a heavy heart that I read this article this morning, saying that the recently-revived Doctor Who series is once again headed for oblivion. As a teenager, I would stay up late one night a week to catch reruns of a full story (a variable number of episodes, totaling anywhere from 45 minutes [...]
The OS Wars, part VIII: Penguin Preserves and Other Tasty Treats
Always have a backup plan. –Mila Kunis
How to Make OpenCola
Open source is an amazing software concept, even if the documentation often lags behind the program by a large amount. But OpenCola, “a freely licensed soft-drink”?!?
“Bacteria for data storage”
This story caught my eye because using DNA for data storage — plant DNA, in that case — was part of one science fiction book I read (I believe it was I, Jedi, by Michael A. Stackpole, published in 1999). The concept is undeniably neat, and it made perfect sense in the context of the [...]
The OS Wars, part VII: Somewhat-Successful Software Substitutions
…Two OSes diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
“EA sells movie rights to ‘The Sims’”
GoddessJ enjoys playing The Sims, more than anyone else I know. She’ll spend days creating houses and building up her characters so that they can afford them. But when she heard that 20th Century Fox has purchased the movie rights to The Sims, she was less than impressed. “Pong: The Movie can’t be far behind,” [...]
“Burglar Leaves His Resume At Scene Of The Crime”
I know that thieves generally aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer, but this guy has to be one of the dumbest I’ve heard of in a long time.
Anti-Religion?
I was recently told that my blog posts seem “rather cynical about clergy,” so I wanted to clear up any confusion. I am not an atheist, or against religion, and I don’t have any complaint about most clergymen; they serve important roles to many people in the world, and I respect them for that. However, [...]