Google is taking over the ‘net — in more ways than one. Apparently advertising pays a lot more than we thought.
Archive of entries posted on January 2010
“Believing You Can Be Smarter Actually Makes You Smarter”
I’ve long maintained that anyone with a normally-working brain can learn to be smart. This article lends weight to that opinion.
I Hate Moving
As some of you already know, GoddessJ and I are moving. Yes, I swore when we moved into this one that I’d never move again… well, I was wrong. This was a spur of the moment decision. We bought the new place here in town last month, hoping to rent it out to reduce our [...]
“The Internet is about to get a lot safer”
In brief: those who control the domain name server system are going to roll out DNSSEC on it this year. Excellent news, from a security perspective.
“The upside of Somali pirate activity? For Kenyan fisherman: more fish.”
I guess every cloud really does have a silver lining.
“Fundie denounces sf for atheism, nudism”
From the beginning of the Boing Boing article: Writing on the loony fundamentalist site “Way of Life,” David Cloud presents the startling intelligence that science fiction is rife with humanism, atheism, and is written by polyamorous nudists like Robert A Heinlein [...] <sarcasm>How horrible!</sarcasm> The title of the post is “Beware of Science Fiction,” and [...]
IPv4, Your Days Are Numbered
The title might seem rather yawn-inspiring to anyone who knows about the issue, but I’m not talking metaphorically. They are literally numbered: there was an estimated 625 days of them left on January 7th, representing 10.2% of the possible numbers. Just twelve days later, on the 19th, a second report said that was down to [...]
“The Subscription War: You’re Bleeding to Death”
I’ve always been leery of anything that requires a subscription. As the article points out, some are inevitable — in our case, Internet access and (land-line) phone service, with fairly basic cable TV on top of that — but we steer clear of anything else that demands ongoing payments. Even so, just those three things [...]
“Five-and-Dime of the Gods”
If you’ve ever read (or even just heard about) an Erich von Daniken book, this will sound awfully familiar.
Desktop vs. Laptop: Still an Open Question
It appears that, despite the hype, laptops have not fully taken over yet. Good, that means I won’t be obliged to feel embarrassed if I ever decide I need to fix my old desktop machine, which I’m pretty sure just needs a new power supply. Strangely enough, I’ve been considering doing just that recently. It [...]