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Rescuing the Hubble

Published 4 September 8 11:54 AM | William

Kudos to the Boston Globe for providing such high quality and just kick a55 pics of the mission to repair the Hubble telescope.

Filed under: News, Misc Technology

Utter Coolness compliments of Roku

Published 3 July 8 4:1 PM | William

My first Roku Soundbridge joined the family back in 2005. As far as wireless media players go, it was a bit pricey. But it looked really cool and I got it through a special offer making it a lot more reasonable. The form factor and styling was the main...

Filed under: News, Roku, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Open Source

The Associated Press' Double Standard

Published 17 March 8 9:46 AM | William

Exhibit A Whether it's legal, illegal, moral, immoral or whatever, it's not a good idea to post stuff on the internet if you don't want people using it without your approval. The main reason is that if someone does use it against your wishes...

Filed under: News, Misc Technology

The Microsoft® Windows Mobile Line of Business Solution Accelerator 2008!

Published 17 March 8 9:4 AM | William

Rob Tiffany has got the details... . The main features include: Intelligent resolution awareness Synchronization Services Windows Communication Foundations "Store and Forward" MapPoint LINQ Custom Controls Managed Stored Procedures and Triggers...

Filed under: News, Humor, Data Access, Misc Technology, WCF, ADO.NET Synchronization Services, Microsoft.Synchronization, Mobility, LINQ, Sahil Malik

Interesting Mac iBook story

Published 11 March 8 5:16 PM | William

Every time I hear about the TSA, I become more and more convinced that if Darwin's theory is correct, the TSA will cease to exist before long. The latest 'can they really be this stupid?' incident has to do with a Mac Airbook. At first I started...

Filed under: News, Humor, Misc Technology

I'd just close the hole...

Published 8 March 8 9:15 PM | William

There are often times that I read something, typically involving a lawsuit, that I'm shocked people push. Often they are so embarassing, I'd probably pay extortion money to keep the crap quiet if someone threatened to go public about something...

Filed under: News, Misc Technology, Mobility, Security

Is this legal?

Published 6 January 8 3:15 PM | William

Bruce Schneier has a new article on a program that Sears is installing on people's computers. Money quote: "If a kid with a scary hacker name did this sort of thing, he'd be arrested. But this is Sears, so who knows what will happen to them...

Filed under: News, Misc Technology, Privacy

The downside to copy and paste

Published 28 December 7 12:1 AM | William

As much time as I spend on computers, it's really hard to imagine life without the Clipboard. Copy/Cut/Paste is such a handy feature I couldn't begin to calculate how much time and effort it's saved me. However, it's definitely caused...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Misc Technology

The Bill of Rights in 2007

Published 18 December 7 10:31 PM | William

So often when I hear talking heads pontificate about constitutional issues, I hear two basic sides. The first is the strict constructionist interpretation where they claim the constitution is clear as day hence end of discussion. On the other side you...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Misc Technology, Security

Another major data breach

Published 22 November 7 1:24 AM | William

Although this time the incompetence and sloppiness wasn't the Veteran's Administration . In each of the stories of this sort that I remember, the data turns up a few weeks later, is blamed on some small and innocent mistake and all kinds of assurances...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Misc Technology

If Google were evil...

Published 25 September 7 1:3 PM | William

This isn't the first time I've read someone hypothesizing about the ramifications of Google going evil (or being owned by the government) but it's a lot of food for thought

Filed under: News, Misc Technology

Silverlight Tour

Published 15 September 7 7:36 PM | William

I've been too busy flying back and forth between the coasts to doing anything cool and non-work related. The bigger bummer is I'm going to miss Shawn Wildermuth's Silverlight Tour . If you are going to be in Atlanta next week, Registration...

Filed under: News, Misc Technology, Silverlight

Rootkits anyone?

Published 3 September 7 6:13 PM | William

Since I was a youngster, I've always been a fan of Sony stuff. I'm old enough to have spent a few years alive before CD's came out. I was still a little guy when I got my first Sony Portable CD player. Even though there were only a few CDs...

Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Tracking Wikipedia 'edits'

Published 16 August 7 6:58 PM | William

If you use Wikipedia much, you have no doubt come across a page that has been vandalized. While vandalism is in the eye of the beholder to some extent, there are clear rules there and I've seen many posts that clearly violate the rules - no question...

Filed under: News, Misc Technology

Theory matters after all...

Published 8 August 7 4:53 AM | William

There are many discussions developers have with each other that always make for interesting discussions. One of the best ones is "How much does a Computer Science degree matter?" If you argue that it's really important, you'll invariably...

Filed under: News, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology, Cool Stuff

Dumbest lawsuit Microsoft ever faced

Published 4 March 7 2:5 AM | William

This is a big claim on my part, but if this isn't the dumbest lawsuit Microsoft has ever faced , it's got to be a contender. In the lawsuit, Crooker argues that Internet Explorer was set to delete his browsing history after five days, but the software...

Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Famous Last Words

Published 7 February 7 12:32 AM | William

I have very little to goof on Bill Gates about, but he's being Mighty brave with challenges like this . On the one hand, I really admire his approach and smack talking. "We made it way harder for guys to do exploits," said Mr. Gates. "The number [of exploits...

Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Uniden WIN1200 - Windows Live enabled Cordless Phone

Published 3 February 7 3:39 AM | William

I got a few new gadgets recently and have been meaning to blog about them b/c all in all, I highly recommend them. The first of these is the Uniden Win 1200 Windows Live Enabled 5800 mhz phone . I'm not a big IM User although recently, Ryan Olshan , Brian...

Filed under: News, Me, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Secure Mobile Environment, Pleomax, Gadgets, Windows Live Messenger, SME, Ceedo

Another big problem with Vista - DRM

Published 26 January 7 6:22 PM | William

Andy has a great post here linking to a story that discusses the problem with Vista DRM . DRM is going to be a problem across the board and everyone is going to face similar hurdles, but since Vista is on bat right now, it's the one that a lot of attention...

Filed under: News, Misc Technology, DRM, Vista

And if Monday doesn't work for you..

Published 26 January 7 1:26 AM | William

I'll also be working at the Ready for a new Day - Launch Tour 2007 February 8, 2007. And yep, I'll be there all day. If you're attending, make sure to stop by.

Filed under: News, Me, Misc Technology