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• ►2008 (2)
  • ►August (1)
    • Wordpress & iPhone
  • ►February (1)
    • Iron Maiden in Monterrey, the concert for the ages.
• ►2007 (110)
  • ►December (1)
    • Freakonomics interviews Bruce Schneier
  • ►November (2)
    • Know thy nerd (or geek?).
    • Music + geekness = good stuff
  • ►October (2)
    • Malware as business
    • Microsoft's Stealth Update comes back to bite them
  • ►September (7)
    • 10 myths about Open Source Software debunked
    • SCO goes bankrupt...Novell wants its money
    • Rick Dakan's Geek Mafia
    • The cause of my silence...
    • And the world said No to Microsoft
    • A mechanical computer virus?
    • Standards Conformance vs. Standards support
  • ►August (16)
    • DMCA abuse by Science Fiction Writers of America
    • Sony's new rootkit
    • Daleks invade Manchester, England!
    • Computer ergonomics, or how to avoid having my back problems...
    • Randy Couture does it again!!!
    • Windows Genuine (dis)Advantage authentication is down...lots of fun ensues (UPDATED)
    • Falsehood of the risk perception (UPDATED)
    • CNET Reporters sue Hewlett-Packard over last year's pretexting scandal
    • The whole SCO saga explained in short...and easy to understand :)
    • Tags, tags, tags
    • Social phishing, an interesting study that'll make you hate humanity
    • For my one or two australian readers
    • SCO is toast!!!
    • Petition for Apple to support ODF on iWork
    • New look! :)
    • Naomi Novik's Temeraire series
  • ►July (12)
    • S.M. Stirling's Island in the Sea of Time Series
    • Service Contracts on a website
    • Microsoft and its cheating ways, this time in Andalucia, Spain, regarding OOXML
    • JP's favorite fiction genre, and also mine :)
    • Catching up with Bruce :)
    • The New Home! :)
    • Happy bday, Chris!
    • Google desktop for linux, first impression
    • To those about to hack, a tale of two approaches
    • Make OpenOffice.org Writer go faster!
    • New plugin added
    • Interesting study on the efficacy of terrorism
  • ►June (12)
    • Yes! At last! :) Google Desktop for Linux! :)
    • Call SCO! Somebody found the truth about PJ! :)
    • A quick and fun update on the SCO saga
    • Graham Sleight on Isaac Asimov
    • John Lambshead’s Lucy’s Blade
    • Favorite song in the soundtrack of my life…
    • Be viral? :)
    • Now, this laptop rocks :)
    • Influence of non-security considerations in your security decisions.
    • That moth may be watching you :)
    • New emacs release! yay! :)
    • Great chairs for book lovers
  • ►May (15)
    • The importance of Open Source Software’s economics
    • Spoofing that evades anti-phishing filters
    • We are back…ugh!
    • Cory Doctorow talking about FanFic
    • Security fun :) Three interesting articles
    • Wordpress 2.2 is out…and installed :)
    • Heinlein’s Centennial coming closer
    • Tool for the 21st Century Journalist
    • Faster and better eInk displays coming
    • Google Analytics’ new face
    • Windows Vista, Arrogance and Stupidity?
    • Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files Series.
    • Eric Flint’s 1632/Assiti Shards Universe, books 4, 5 and 6: 1634: The Ram Rebellion; 1635: The Cannon Law; 1634: The Baltic War
    • Sony Reader Review
    • Dell to offer pre-installed Ubuntu linux
  • ►April (16)
    • Interesting elevator tech
    • Top 10 Internet Crimes of 2006
    • First reading of Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, 1970
    • Lots of places to get free ebooks! :)
    • Chris’ faulty logic :P
    • Kurt Vonnegut, RIP :(
    • To follow or not?
    • From D-minus to C-minus in a year…I guess Uncle Sam can learn
    • Upgrade your Firefox to 2.0.x now.
    • IGNORE ME, this is a test, trying to figure out a problem
    • Yes, I’ve been walking through the blogosphere, so here’s another meme I found :)
    • Changes! :)
    • 30 Days with Windows Vista and 30 Days with Ubuntu Linux
    • Star Wars Postal Stamps showing up in the US soon! :)
    • Book Meme :)
    • New Google service, TiSP, free in-home wireless broadband
  • ►March (15)
    • First “Open Source” car?
    • What Vista really means :)
    • Ian Murdock, 8 days at Sun’s Chief Operating Platforms Officer
    • sociological archeology…the birth of the smiley :)
    • DRM/C.R.A.P. causes 75% of support calls when it comes to digital music
    • According to Cory Doctorow, you *do* like reading off a computer screen
    • Poor Handy, he has delusions of nerdom/geekdom ;)
    • New federal anti-pretexting law in the US
    • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home
    • Raymond E. Feist’s Legends of the Riftwar series
    • HP pretexting “trial” bullshit.
    • Ok, this may not be pretty, hold on to your hats
    • Riding on the Tech Link Train
    • Clockpunk, a new science fiction genre (updated)
    • Totally off topic, but can’t resist :)
  • ►February (7)
    • Scariest thing ever: Windows for Warships
    • Germans and Dutchs may lose anonymity online
    • Various interesting posts on security
    • Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 8 comic, an early look
    • John Ringo’s Paladin of Shadows, aka Ghost, series: Book Five, A Deeper Blue
    • The Internet is depressing, according to study.
    • Bruce Schneier: The Psychology of Security
  • ►January (5)
    • Why Bill Gates left The Daily Show so quickly? Here’s the answer :)
    • Good news for all: Spammer faces up to *101* years in prison
    • Internet Explorer unsafe to use 284 days in 2006; Firefox only 9.
    • Windows Vista, brought to you with help from…the NSA???
    • iPhone and Apple TV!
• ►2006 (108)
  • ►December (6)
    • On the mainstream media’s plagiarism of blogs
    • Samba’s lead developer Jeremy Allison resigns from Novell in protest, joins Google.
    • Happy Bday, Creative Commons! :)
    • Google Web Toolkit goes Open Source!
    • Buffy comic coming up! :)
    • Assorted geeky seasonal stuff
  • ►November (2)
    • EMACS, the king of editors
    • Lots of posts about Novell/MS
  • ►October (6)
    • Public key crypto, 30 years old…happy bday! :)
    • Oracle gets into the linux game (UPDATED)
    • Firefox 2.0 is out
    • John Ringo’s Paladin of Shadows, aka Ghost, series: Book Four, Unto The Breach
    • Eudora Mail to become Open Source!
    • The Wicked Witch (formerly) of the Board under criminal charges (Updated)
  • ►September (10)
    • The Wicked Witch of the Board resigns, effective immediately.
    • Hewlett-Packard and the PatriciaGate; worst than even I could think it would be
    • I Forgot! Happy 50th bday, Hard Disk!
    • Ok, HP’s illegal investigation was worst than I thought
    • HP’s illegal games, updates - Updated
    • HP’s illegal privacy violations, the story continues…Dunn won’t be fired
    • HP’s illegal actions, privacy violation.
    • Are job interviews a waste of time?
    • Sixteen months of Data Breaches
    • Privacy International’s Stupid Security Awards 2006
  • ►August (13)
    • Places to find DRM-free science fiction and fantasy ebooks
    • Happy birthday, Linux! :)
    • Educating users about security
    • Who can do it again?
    • Yet another of my rare vices :)
    • Bruce Schneier Facts :)
    • And one more bday gift! :)
    • John Ringo’s Paladin of Shadows, aka Ghost, series: Book Three, Choosers of the Slain
    • Happy bday, PC! :)
    • The Time Fountain…it rocks :)
    • Help Desk done easy…welcome to captorials.com
    • As my bday comes closer, I find more stuff I want! :)
    • Updating the Traditional Security Model…is it doable?
  • ►July (12)
    • Happy SysAdmin Appreciation Day! :)
    • Bruce Schneier’s essay about Bot Networks
    • Trojan disguised as Firefox Extension
    • Microsoft’s security meeting causes unease
    • Darth Linus vs the Microsoft Republic???
    • Scotty will go to space, at last
    • AMD buys ATI, at last
    • Andy Updegrove’s ODF report VI
    • HOPE Speaker arrested by FBI (updated again)
    • Microsoft’s 12 tenets to promote competition…if you believe them (updated)
    • Changes in CoComment
    • For the book manic among us :)
  • ►June (10)
    • Jim Baen passed away :(
    • A little belated, Jim Baen’s Status Report, 27-06-06
    • Jim Baen’s Status Report: 25-06-06
    • Jim Baen’s Status Report, 2006-06-23
    • Jim Baen’s status report, June 20th ‘06
    • Jim Baen had a stroke :(
    • ODF Alliance Newsletter
    • New jobs are overrated
    • All Party Parliamentary Internet Grup (APIG) in the UK releases report on their C.R.A.P/DRM study
    • Two fun articles about security
  • ►May (29)
    • John Ringo’s Paladin of Shadows, aka Ghost, series: Book Two, Kildar
    • Life sucks, then your HD dies
    • California’s Appeal Court: Bloggers are journalists!
    • European Comission: Software is not patentable
    • May 25th, Douglas Adams’ Day, aka Towel Day
    • Very smart idea…out with RSS, in with textcasting
    • In the US, government’s “right” to prosecute journalists trumps First Amendment rights.
    • Looking into the future?
    • Humour: Crazy penguin, aka your laptop on linux :)
    • Lenovo Banned by U.S. State Department..dumbass mistakes pushed by politics, but it’ll help Linux
    • DRM/C.R.A.P, the RIAA and piracy
    • The end of Unix? Probably
    • A last one about ODF, reader beware
    • The Chapultepec Agreement
    • Lots of ODF stuff today! :)
    • Oh! Yet one more great Bday present for geeks!
    • Happy anniversary, Groklaw!
    • That was the right decision, Rachel
    • ODF vs MS XML, the war of the standards
    • Takashi Matsuoka’s Cloud of Sparrows
    • Andy Updegrove, about Microsoft’s Big Lie
    • Signs you are a crappy programmer and don’t know it :)
    • ODF and MSOffice
    • SGI files for Chapter 11 bankrupcy :(
    • Ok, my birthday is less months away…and this is a cheaper gift ;)
    • A year to make Open Source secure?
    • OpenDocument format officially known now as ISO/IEC 26300
    • The new Mac advertising campaign is hilarious!
    • Stephen Colbert (makes) fun at the White House
  • ►April (4)
    • The Presidential debate in Mexico
    • Kathleen Antonelli, Computing pioneer, passes away
    • The truth(?) on Linux management
    • David Weber’s War God Series
  • ►March (9)
    • To help or not to help in the linux community
    • Eric Flint’s 1632 Universe, aka, Assiti Shards Series
    • David Weber’s and John Ringo’s March Upcountry series
    • Interview with Mandriva’s CEO about Gael’s departure
    • My birthday is still months away, but…
    • David Drake & S.M. Stirling’s Raj Whitehall Series
    • A sad day for Mandriva :(
    • My other geeky hobby :)
    • David Weber’s Honor Harrington Series
  • ►February (4)
    • L.A. Times: When writing truth is a crime
    • The failure of the american press
    • I want one of these!
    • David Drake’s and Eric Flint’s “Belisarius Saga” series
  • ►January (3)
    • Jim Baen’s Universe
    • Groklaw on some of the usual MS TCO FUD
    • John Ringo’s “Ghost”

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