“Bigger Computer Monitors = More Productivity”
The Wall Street Journal confirms what most people have suspected for a long time: size does matter.
Archive of entries posted on March 2008
Blog Changes
Those of you keeping track may have noticed that I’ve tried, since starting this blog, to post at least one entry a day. You may also have noticed a few gaps recently. Those don’t indicate a lack of enthusiasm on my part, just a lack of time: I’ve gotten very busy with Project X recently, …
“War against Web tops music biz ‘screw-ups’ list”…
…as anyone living in the last decade with two eyes and a brain could have told you.
French military victories?
I don’t know a lot about history, but if you go to Google.com at the moment, type in French Military Victories, and hit the “I’m feeling lucky” button, you get a fake Google page (yes, it looks real, but it isn’t — look at the address bar) with this text: Did you mean: french military …
“They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know.”
Windows Vista, how do I dislike thee? The New York Times counts the ways — using Microsoft’s internal e-mails from their own staff and board members to do it.
Snow, snow, snow…
…I hate it. The clouds crapped about two feet onto us today, ruining the 60th birthday party that my wife had been organizing for her mother for the past several weeks. I wonder what the Sahara is like this time of year…?
“Windows-based cash machines ‘easily hacked'”
Why am I not surprised?
Internet Explorer 8 to Fully Support Web Standards
The first public beta of IE8 is now available, and the big news is that MS has finally decided to fully support web standards (and it’s about time!). Why the sudden change of heart? They aren’t talking, but OSnews may have tagged it… it’s amazing what a little self-interest will do.
A new kind of CAPTCHA?
CAPTCHAs, the automated tests that are meant to prevent spam-bots from overrunning free e-mail services and comment forms, have been defeated. What’s next? Hopefully not something like this… I tried it three times, and only succeeded twice. Statistics also indicate that it wouldn’t work too well — there are less than 30 variations, so even …
RIP Gary Gygax, “Father of D&D”
A moment of silence please, to mourn the passing of the creator of a game that defined a generation of young nerds, including yours truly. (Thanks, Joshua.)