“Once upon a time, children, there was a whole industry built on nothing but distributing music.” “Grampa, what’s disturba… distrab…?” “Distributing? It means that a person takes music that other people make and sells it to people who want it.” “Why couldn’t people buy it from the people who made it, like we do?” “Because [...]
Archive of entries posted on June 2007
“Vertical Farming in the Big Apple”
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… a giant farm skyscraper? I expect we’ll see these within the next couple decades. It just makes too much economic sense, not to mention environmental. And the higher fuel prices go, the more sense it will make.
Mushroom Insulation
I’m betting that these guys are going to go far. Anybody foolish enough to bet against me?
The OS Wars II: Bitten by Bluetooth, Seeing Double, and Talking To The Palm
During a chess competition a chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk. – Alexander Alekhine I’m well known for being stubborn. Very stubborn. When I run into a problem, I pound my head against it until either my head breaks or the problem does. So far, it has almost [...]
You’ve Received a Trojan Horse
It seems that the “family member” spam that I’d talked about a couple days ago was a malware attempt, as well as (probably) a probe to confirm e-mail addresses.
“The United States National Medical Association”
More spam today, with a very similar modus operandi as yesterday’s bogus greeting card message. If you want to see the message itself, you can find a two-year-old copy here, word for word. The only difference is that my copy actually linked to a different .COM site with a nonsense name, though the visible text [...]
“You’ve received a postcard from a family member!” Yeah, right!
What I actually received was the message below, with the above-quoted subject line. It smelled fishy. I’ve gotten these greeting-card messages before, but they’ve always included the name of the person sending the message. If the site didn’t have the person’s name, then how would it know that it was a family member? And what’s [...]
Linux Is Outpacing Windows
Microsoft has really been spinning it’s wheels for the last six or seven years. With the exception of improving security, nearly everything it has done since Windows 2000 has been focused on sizzle rather than steak. The same operating system with prettier pictures. You can see it in the whole user interface, and you can [...]
“Vietnam vet strangles rabid bobcat”
And I thought it was just Israelis who had interesting sports.
“Blackboard paint makes kitchen scribbly”
Neat idea.