The Musical Theory of Icy Sidewalks
If you don’t C-sharp, you’ll B-flat.
Archive of entries posted by Head Geek
“TCP is broken”
Chris Linfoot explains how and why the networking protocol behind the entire Internet (TCP/IP) is broken, by design. Interesting, though fairly technical.
Steve Jobs == Bill Gates Junior?
Bill Gates’ Microsoft, long hated by the technorati for its aggressive pushing of inferior technologies, its arrogant attitude toward the standards used by the rest of the industry, the secrecy that it cloaks its own proprietary ways of doing things in (so that no one can interoperate with its products), and its paranoid and monopolistic …
“Comcast: FCC lacks any authority to act on P2P blocking”
Comcast, the ISP-slash-cable company that has been in hot water for the past year for “managing” (i.e. blocking) P2P applications, has thrown down the gauntlet to the FCC. After eight months of denying that they were doing it at all, now they’re basically saying “yeah, we’re doing it, and you can’t stop us. Nyah, nyah!“ …
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Test
Test post, seems to be some trouble on the server. Update: Apparently this version of WordPress has a problem with the letters CC followed immediately by a colon. Every time I tried to publish the next post (with the letters “FCC” followed by a colon), it told me that the post was “not acceptable.” I …
“Martian Headsets”
Joel Spolsky has hit the nail right on the head, yet again. This time, he’s talking about Internet Explorer 8 and the decision whether or not to automatically follow web standards, and the eternal flame wars that are going to erupt over it. He also points out that this is the same reason that Windows …
“Bigger Computer Monitors = More Productivity”
The Wall Street Journal confirms what most people have suspected for a long time: size does matter.
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 …