The SoapVox

If you are like me and can’t stand idiocy, you’ll learn to hate the world after reading the study that Schneier found.
Social phishing is sending emails with forged headers to people, using the names of people that are part of the intended victim’s social network, trying to hang their attempt of stealing your data onto [...]

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen hits from Australia a time or two…this should be of concern to you.
And even if you aren’t downunder, watching the arrogance and stupidity of companies involved in the selling of books is highly entertaining and amusing, even when it pisses you off.
Charlie Rimmer, Commercial Manager of Angus & Robertson Whitcoulls [...]

Yes indeed! SCO is toast! Novell owns UNIX and UnixWare, and all of SCO’s legal cases go down the drain! YES! :)
PJ can now wear her red dress and dance, right after putting up this new post on Groklaw:  Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights! Novell has right to waive! That’s it for [...]

As you probably know if you’ve read this blog for a while, I’m a firm supporter of open source and open standards. What you probably don’t know is that I also am an Apple fan of sorts.
The only Apple object I own is an iPod Shuffle, but I believe that nobody does consumer computers better [...]

As you can probably notice, I got a new look going on the site now, and all is thanks to milo, who allowed me to get this one before it even got published, and then helped me get it working with all the plugins and stuff I use here…she went well beyond the call of [...]

After a long hiatus from fantasy (probably a year or even more), I’ve been reading a lot lately, or at least a lot more than I had been :) And I think I’ll blame it on John Lambshead’s Lucy’s Blade, and Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files, both of which re-awoke my like for fantasy, at least [...]