Apparently computer virus, worm, and Trojan horse programs are scary. That seems to be the flimsy (but amusing) premise behind this offer, anyway. Oh, and Happy Hallowe’en! [UPDATE] Warning! When I tried to go to that site (not the LifeHacker one, but the eWeek one listed in the LifeHacker article above), I got a Firekeeper [...]
Archive of entries posted on October 2007
“Bad Morning”
My mother sent me an e-mail recently. Yes, it’s a joke, but it’s humorous enough that I decided to post it here: I rear-ended a car this morning. The driver got out of the other car, and he was a DWARF! He looked up at me and said “I am NOT HAPPY!” So I said, [...]
“Does new iPhone ad pass the sniff test?”
Say it ain’t so, Mr. Jobs!
Weird Auto-Blogs
No, I’m not talking about blogs about cars. I’m talking about pseudo-blogs that are obviously completely automated, collecting entries about certain subjects from other blogs and linking to them. Geek Drivel has had three such hits so far; I’m letting them stay linked for now, while I try to figure out what their purpose is. [...]
What happened to actual news reporting?
Is it just me, or are many of the technology news sites doing nothing more than “reporting” press releases anymore? I subscribe to several tech-news sites, and it’s rare that there’s a subject that is only reported by one of them. I see a headline about a new coupons-by-cell-phone service called Cellfire in the RSS [...]
“$188 laptop faces production delay, shortage”
The only reason I bring this story to your attention is a little throw-away line near the bottom: “The group is experimenting with a device that uses cows to generate power to charge its battery.” I’m just wondering how they’re planning to do that. If they wanted to use some kind of kinetic energy generator, [...]
“Schneier: Beware security products”
I love this quote, half a dozen paragraphs from the bottom: “Fundamentally, we are not rational,” said Schneier. “The brain is just barely functioning in the security community. It’s still in beta testing. There’s weird holes and shortcuts, and all sorts of patches and work-arounds.”
“Pint-size hydro power on tap”
These guys know how to use their brains.
Upgrade Pains
I’m not sure what happened last night, but when I got up this morning, my development system was showing the log-in screen. I leave it running overnight, so that it can do it’s daily backups, so the screen should have been in low-power mode, and once awakened it should have been on the system-locked screen, [...]
“Popping the question the 21st century way”
It’s almost impossible to surprise GoddessJ with anything. She usually manages to ferret out whatever you were planning to surprise her with long before you’d planned for her to know. The day I proposed to her, she knew ahead of time that I had the ring and was planning to do it that evening, and [...]