Well, after a bit over a year, I guess I can now really say that I’m a blogger, ’cause I got pulled onto a meme lol! Handy decided to pull me aboard the Tech Link Train, and I feel compelled to do the same to others, and see if that makes the NetGods decide to [...]
- Wordpress & iPhone
- Iron Maiden in Monterrey, the concert for the ages.
- Freakonomics interviews Bruce Schneier
- Know thy nerd (or geek?).
- Music + geekness = good stuff
- Malware as business
- Microsoft’s Stealth Update comes back to bite them
- 10 myths about Open Source Software debunked
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- 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)
- ►2006 (108)
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- ►November (2)
- ►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)
- ►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)
- ►January (3)
