Endgame Viable

14 entries. 2,838 words.

December, 2004

• Napster Reborn. 2004-12-16 4:34 AM.
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  So after listening to EnergyX for a while I collected a list of cool songs I wanted. 371 words.

September, 2005

• Firefox’ed. 2005-09-21 1:58 AM.
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  I found this article on Slashdot comparing the number of security patches released for Internet Explorer and Firefox in the same time period to be highly amusing. Basically they are saying that Firefox, the allegedly “safer” open source browser, has released 2-4 times more security fixes in the same time period than Internet Explorer. Ha ha. 154 words.

November, 2005

• Mediocrity Taking Over The Web. 2005-11-13 2:41 PM.
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  Nicolas Carr’s blog article, The amorality of Web 2.0, rocks. (There’s some technical mumbo-jumbo, but there’s also a bunch of regular English words I didn’t know, either. :) There has always been something about Open Source that has made me uneasy, but I’ve never really been able to put my finger on exactly what it was. 173 words.

December, 2005

• Activists Unite!. 2005-12-19 8:00 PM.
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  I would like to point out the following two Slashdot articles to the throngs of technically saavy political activists that read my site. 122 words.

January, 2006

• CSI:Mickey. 2006-01-10 4:13 PM.
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  Golly, but I’ve been getting uber-political lately! What’s up with that? Let’s get back to more important topics, like the strangulation and decapitation of mice! 152 words.
• iPod-Ridiculosity. 2006-01-11 3:52 PM.
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  Okay, this iPod thing is starting to get ridiculous: Levi Strauss debuts iPod-ready jeans. How gullible do people have to be to fall for this? How desperate are these people to throw away their money? 130 words.
• Privacy Wars. 2006-01-19 2:52 PM.
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  Amid the uproar about the Prez wiretapping everybody’s phones, I thought it would be fun to pass along a couple other privacy issues from today’s news. 228 words.

August, 2006

• A Pause To Scold Blogspot. 2006-08-31 6:23 PM.
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  On the off chance anyone is reading this from a Blogger or Feedburner RSS feed, you might be wondering about the seemingly random order of posts. For example, this post that I wrote first thing Monday morning would have just shown up in the RSS feed today (Thursday). The reason? 123 words.

March, 2007

• Slashdot Advises Future Criminals. 2007-03-15 11:42 PM.
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  This caught my eye: Don’t Google “How To Commit Murder” Before Killing. Slashdot makes it sound like The Powers That Be can call up Google and Microsoft and get a list of your searches to use against you in a court case, but that’s not what happened. The police seized the defendant’s computers and simply looked at their search history, which is usually recorded by default where anyone can look at it. 109 words.

July, 2007

• Retractable Emails. 2007-07-17 10:28 PM.
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  This is not strictly political but I suspect partisans and politicians would be very interested in this. :) I heard about a free email service on WRVA (that is perhaps the longest, ugliest url I have ever seen) this morning called “BigString.” Basically it allows you to change or retract emails after you’ve sent them. (The name comes from yanking back your embarrassing drunken emails with a “big string.”) I haven’t investigated exactly how they do this (ie. 178 words.

August, 2008

• NanoPost: Sitemeter purged. 2008-08-02 2:27 PM.
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  I never particularly liked Sitemeter because of the wacky redirecting it did, and I always intended to replace it. Today I see there is an even bigger reason not to like it: No site using Sitemeter will open in Internet Explorer. Nice. 90 words.
• Blogger Shutdowns. 2008-08-06 10:26 PM.
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  There’s been some consternation lately about Google allegedly “shutting down” some blogs that were critical of Barack HUSSEIN! Obama. 525 words.

March, 2009

• No Agenda Podcast. 2009-03-24 2:42 AM.
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  My new favorite political show is the No Agenda Podcast. It’s sort of a subversive, anti-government, rambling talk show with Adam Curry (the former MTV VJ) and John C. Dvorak (the technology columnist). 139 words.

October, 2010

• Daemon by Daniel Suarez. 2010-10-23 1:06 AM.
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  I just finished Daniel Suarez’s much talked-about Daemon. (Talked about among the digerati, at least.) It’s not a literary masterpiece, but it’s a great story and a thought-provoking idea, and I think it will resonate particularly well among the tech-savvy and younger generations. (There is talk of an upcoming movie, which would be pretty awesome.) 344 words.