Topics on my particular interests.
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 …
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 …
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 …
I like most of what Joss Whedon comes up with (the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series and Firefly, for instance), so when I heard that he was involved in this site, I had to check it out. I’m not sure who plays Dr. Horrible, though he looks very familiar (he might be one of the …
The collective tech sphere (which has been holding its breath wondering what lawsuit-happy Apple was waiting for) can now breathe again. The article says that this “pretty much spells the end for Psystar.” He’s probably right, because it’s not likely Psystar can afford to defend itself… but if it can take this all the way …
Yes Chris, it probably is. But you’ve got to admit, it does look neat. 🙂
If you run your own website, you might have been following the brouhaha over the new LinkScanner feature of GriSoft’s AVG virus scanner. I can’t find this text on the GriSoft website, but it was quoted in a comment on another blog I was reading today: Following is AVG’s official response to LinkScanner concerns: We’d …
Interesting Terms of Service on Google Gears… not only does it explicitly exclude open-source products from the usual disassembly prohibitions, but it enjoins you (if you develop code that uses it) to “protect the privacy and legal rights of those users” (section 5.5). Not the sort of thing you generally see in a software license, …
As mentioned previously, I’ve been using the Avant Window Navigator (AWN) program as my main launcher for the last little bit. But I’ve taken advantage of this holiday weekend to figure out another program I’ve heard really good things about, and after using it for a couple days, I’ve completely replaced AWN. The program is …
And on a closely-related note, the court system has ruled that the President isn’t above the law. Who would have thought?