“The Awareness Test”
Very amusing. Take the test and see how well you do!
Archive of entries posted by Head Geek
The Political Compass
Interesting… read the first page, then take the test. The results might surprise you.
“Vista fiasco continues with retreat to XP”
Microsoft finally woke up and realized that people aren’t going to pay their usual rate for OEM copies of Windows when the PC itself is under $200, so they’ve decided to allow those computers to run Windows XP — the previous (and in many peoples’ opinion, better) version of Windows — instead of ceding the …
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Microsoft’s OOXML Now An ISO “Standard”
Speaking of Microsoft’s arrogance when it comes to following existing standards, the results of the ISO vote on their unnecessary OOXML have been leaked, and it looks like they won approval… though a number of people in the know are saying that they played fast and loose with the rules to do so. No surprise …
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I’m Being Spammed By “IDG Connect”
I received an odd newsletter e-mail this morning. Odd because it looked like a perfectly legitimate newsletter, but it was from an outfit calling itself IDG Connect and claiming that I’m a “valued customer.” I’d never heard of the company before this, so far as I know, so I did some research. It’s hard to …
Microsoft Going Open-Source?
This has to be an April Fool’s gag — Microsoft would never put anything into the public domain, no matter how minor, and Office (one of its two major cash cows) most especially. But it was fun for the first couple paragraphs.
“Get your German interior minister’s fingerprint here”
Politicians that back biometrics (as a way to thwart crime and terrorism) now have reason to be a little terrified themselves: a hacker group has copied the fingerprint of a German politician who has been pushing that technology, and published it in a form that can easily be used to fool fingerprint readers. Fun, fun, …
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“All That Got Stolen Was Microsoft’s Thunder”
It seems that Microsoft has realized the foolishness of last year’s unsubstantiated assertion that Linux “violates 235 of [MS’s] patents.” Failing to scare corporations away from Linux, and failing to scare Linux distributors like Red Hat into paying them extortion money, they’ve backed away from that claim and are making friendly overtures to the open-source …
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“Cat Ownership Correlated With Heart Health”
Yesterday evening, through a bizarre set of circumstances, our front door was left open for about three hours without us realizing it. Our three pampered and indoor cats reacted to this in various ways… Oliver Bert-tholomew Purrington (the youngest and smartest) came upstairs to let us know about it, and when he was unable to …
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“Doomsday fears spark lawsuit over collider”
Sorry, but I don’t buy it. In my work with compression theory, I learned a lot about probability. If any of these doomsday scenarios were possible, they would have happened somewhere in the universe already — probably a lot of somewheres — and science would have seen some evidence of them. Like most good scientists, …
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