Are you infected by a botnet?

November 13, 2010

I read with interest about a group of researchers who have managed to (at least temporarily) disable one of the bigger botnets online. I frequently get junk emails from legitimate email addresses that I’m pretty certain are generated by one of the botnets, which often makes me wonder just how many of the people I’m [...]

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Eating out in Greenville, South Carolina

November 3, 2010

I’m currently on the road in Greenville, South Carolina, which is a really lovely town from what I’ve seen so far. Greenville also has a number of culinary oddities I haven’t seen on menus in other parts of the country. Last night I ate at Sushi Murasaki, which among other more standard rolls also features [...]

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Wake Up Public Access! YouTube is Commuinity Television.

October 26, 2010

Bainbridge Island, Washington, the town where I live, is currently at risk of losing its public access cable programming from the Comcast channel lineup. The city is apparently dropping funding. We aren’t the first community to face this issue, but I’m not convinced any community should care. What the people crying for public access fail [...]

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What’s wrong with 3D television?

October 4, 2010

When HDTV screens emerged on the scene, there was one major flaw with the format – there simply wasn’t enough high definition content to truly justify buying an HDTV. This was a problem easily remedied and we’re now in a situation where you can watch almost anything in high definition, even though that means different [...]

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Does WordPress Windows Live Spaces deal signal impending sale?

September 28, 2010

It was widely reported yesterday that WordPress acquired all the users from Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces. This is great news for WordPress as it adds 30 million users. It’s great news for all the people blogging on Spaces, because Microsoft had a fairly lousy blogging platform to begin with, in spite of making an awesome [...]

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Reviewing my WiScale Experience

September 27, 2010

Since I mentioned the WiScale a few weeks ago, I figured I’d report back on how I like it. So far, I’m really enjoying stepping on the scale in the morning and not needing to remember to log my weight, but the scale is certainly not perfect. I’m reasonably convinced the weight measurement is both [...]

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Not quite an iPad review – my initial thoughts

September 12, 2010

You may have noticed a few iPad articles creeping into my writing recently. I made a conscious choice to avoid the iPad when it first came out. At the time I didn’t see how it fit into my computing habits. I love reading on Amazon’s Kindle, so I don’t need an e-book reader. I already [...]

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Have you given up television?

September 6, 2010

I’m not a big television watcher. Never have been. I enjoy watching sporting events. I love watching movies. And there are shows I wouldn’t miss, like Doctor Who and Dexter. But I’m closer to abandoning what we traditionally think of as television because we’re on the verge of not needing the 500 channels of nothing [...]

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Recording health data automatically

August 30, 2010

While I occasionally attempt to make resolutions around the New Year changeover that happens every January 1, my birthday is time I’m more likely to reflect on various aspects of personal and professional development. Yesterday marks the completion of my 37th year on the planet. As I gradually march toward 40, I find myself thinking [...]

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National Cell Phone Plan?

August 24, 2010

The term “national service” seems to be relative when it comes to getting cell phone serice in the United States. We just got back from a cross-country trip to visit family in Iowa about a week ago. Along the way, we made stopovers at Yellowstone and Mt. Rushmore, as well as numerous towns in the [...]

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