“Convicted spammer goes AWOL from federal prison”
Uh-oh! Better lock up your e-mail program ’til he’s re-caught!
Archive of entries posted on July 2008
“American physicists warned not to debate global warming”
I thought the whole point to science was questioning assumptions to find the truth? I hate to be classed as a Global Warming denialist (there seems to be some decent evidence that it’s happening), but there’s a distinctly over-ripe odor around the subject.
“SCO ordered to pay Novell $2.5m Unix royalties”
For those uber-geeks who are still following the ridiculous SCO-versus-Novell lawsuit, it looks like the end is (finally!) near: in a stunningly apropos reversal, SCO (which instigated the lawsuit) has been ordered to pay Novell for violating their rights. They probably won’t have the money, but it’s a moral victory, at least.
“…due to unforeseen circumstances…”
GoddessJ pointed this one out to me: We regret to announce that due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, the publication of The Astrological Magazine will cease with the December 2007 issue. So the stars didn’t say anything about that, eh? 😉
Dell Motherboard Troubles, Part II
It seems that the replacement motherboard that I got last month, for my Dell XPS m1210 laptop, had some problems… the system just died tonight, and Dell’s support line says that it looks like the motherboard again, with a different problem. I was an electronics technician for the USPS for many years before I turned …
“Copyright enforcers should learn lessons from the war on spam”
Two of my favorite targets in a single (and pretty good) article — bonus! 🙂
“How the Psystar lawsuit might go very, very wrong… for Apple”
I’ve been saying since April or so that Apple really wanted to avoid going to court over Psystar (the Hackintosh maker) because it would open up a huge can of legal worms for Apple, but apparently most legal people think that Apple will win the case without even trying. This post gives some good reasons …
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Religious Battles and The Internet
GoddessJ and I have been watching, with a mixture of horror and incredulity, a web dustup between an outspoken atheist and a large religious group recently. Read the link if you want the gory details, but the upshot of it is that the more zealous people on the religious side are threatening to do physical …
ASCII, Unicode, and Windows
As mentioned previously, my company sold the rights to one of our previous Windows software products to a much larger company a few years ago. The much larger company keeps my company on retainer to advise them on the product’s continued development. The product (let’s call it Project Badger) was originally written more than ten …
Church Signs
There are two churches on a small stretch of a particular road we travel often. One of them usually has a Christian-oriented (but often humorous) saying on its sign. Recently it had a humorous saying that was somewhat… unexpected: Forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them more. Annoying people isn’t supposed to be a Christian attitude …