“Britain Drops ‘War on Terror’ Label”
Good Lord… how are all those starving military contractors going to make any money off of it if it’s not a war anymore?!
Archive of entries posted on January 2008
“Microsoft admits Office 2003 ‘mistake'”
Color me shocked. After my post on the recent Office 2003 debacle, I expected Microsoft to do what they’ve always done (and what they continue to do with Windows Vista): ignore the complaints and forge on. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. But apparently they heard enough complaints that they’ve backed off on this one. …
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“Interview with author of Love & Sex With Robots”
This article interests me. Not for the prurient aspects — sorry, I’m just not all that interested in dolls, even life-sized and anatomically-correct ones — but for what happens when artificial intelligence can make them a lot more real? When you can easily believe that a robotic woman is the real thing, except that she’s …
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“Pass the salami”
Chris Linfoot had a couple of really snarky anti-Microsoft posts recently. Hello, Microsoft! Sit up and pay attention, you’re losing customers daily — and you’re not too big to care, no matter what you think!
“Technology Voter’s Guide”
ZDNet has an interesting series, profiling the major Presidential candidates and their stated technology views. So far they’ve got Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Ron Paul, John McCain, John Edwards, and Chris Dodd; I don’t know if they plan to cover anyone else. Of course, you have to take what they say they support with a …
“Office 2003 update blocks older file formats”
After all the government kerfuffle over the last couple years about moving to an open format for office documents (because proprietary formats could be discontinued by the vendor at any time, rendering documents stored in them unreadable), I’m shocked to read that after the latest Office 2003 update, Office can no longer access older format …
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“Car crash driver blames pterodactyl”
There really isn’t much that I could add to this.
…hello, 2008!
And a happy New Year to everyone!