Prisoner confessions for a Happy Meal
Guantanamo Bay inmates will confess secrets for a McDonald's Happy Meal….
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Happy birthday Google
Happy birthday to Google….
College students fined for infected computers
Some colleges have started fining students for not properly maintaining their own systems against a virus attack. I am sure Apple will pick up on it and market the fines as monetary proof that Apple is a better total cost of ownership….
Workers need help turning computers on
One in seven workers need help turning their office computers on or off according to this study. "Research showed that about a fifth of staff asked for help to save or print a document and could not create a table on their screens to make it easier to write data." On my first day at Callan I was told to wait for a member of our IT staff to turn on my computer for me. I write code, so I must not know how to work the machine? There are plenty of support nightmares out there….
IBM kicks off global Linux ad push
IBM is launching a global advertising campaign for Linux. I like the idea of experts in each of their fields contributing to one learner. The idea of a child may work against IBM as companies view Linux as new and unproven….
It’s good to be king
King Mswati of Swaziland has 10 wives and a fiance, and he holds a yearly festival where 50,000 bare chested women compete for his attention. Sounds like an interesting way to meet women. I hope he has better taste than Bill Clinton….
New Microsoft mice
Today Microsoft officially announced their new mice and keyboards. The wireless devices are available by the end of the month and the new wired Intellimouse Explorer is not available until February 2004. If you take a look at a close-up of the Wireless Intellimouse Explorer you will notice more well defined finger grooves and a scroll wheel chamber. My scroll wheel seems to always be blocked with gunk of some form, so hopefully the new design is more gunk resistant. There is a leather Wireless Intellimouse Explorer as well….
Israeli Scientists Crack GSM Mobile Call Security
An Israeli scientist said on Wednesday his team had found a way to break into mobile phone calls made on the popular GSM network, allowing eavesdroppers to listen in on calls and even take on a caller's identity….
Tips for Candidates re Weblogs
Dave Winer has been doing a lot of research about political candidates and how they should be using weblogs….
Pimp Juice
Now you too can own your very own can of Pimp Juice….
Chinese food and Pirillo party Saturday night
On Saturday night I had dinner with Dave Winer, Robert Scoble and his family, Jake Savin, Brad Neuberg, Don Park, Steve Gillmor, Phil Wolff, Cheyenne, Pat Delaney, Bryan Bell, and a few other names I cannot remember. If I left you out leave a comment and I will edit you in. Brad is working on some really cool JXTA project named Paper Airplane which he plans to release into beta this week. Steve Gillmor is a little too RSS crazy and would like to do away with all e-mail and instead turn to RSS. I argued that his gripes with…
Ticketmaster Auction Will Let Highest Bidder Set Concert Prices
NY Times reports that Ticketmaster will now start scalping tickets. "Ticketmaster will be able to compete with brokers and scalpers for the highest price a market will bear."…
Revolve : The Bible meets Cosmo
Tommy Nelson has a brand new version of The New Testament geared towards teenage girls: Revolve. ABC News has a pretty comprehensive review. As a child I had a version of the Bible (old and new testaments) rewritten to appear as a comic. If I had been given a King James version it would have never been read. So I think different inroads for the same content is a good thing. In case you are wondering…I was raised Irish Catholic but I am currently consider myself agnostic and in defiance of any dogma. The last service I attended was Zen…
Robotic Freedom
Marshall Brain has a long but interesting article about what might happen when robotics and automation become as cheap as computers did in the late 1990s….
AppleLore
The Computer History Museum is hosting an event to celebrate Apple Computer's historical contribution to the computer industry. The event is named AppleLore….
Location based services
MIT's Technology review profiles some interesting location based devices and their use….
Tethered by a high-tech leash
MSNBC has a series of articles on "punching the clock in the new economy." Especially interesting to me is Tethered by a high-tech leash. "[P]eople with Web access at home log in and work an extra 5.9 hours per week on average." What causes someone to stay constantly connected? Fear of losing their job? A hope that doing so might single them out as an exceptional employee and get them the bonus, raise, promotion they desire?…
O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
I would love to go to the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. I downloaded most of the audience videos I could find last year and read the write-ups of the speeches. Now to actually place myself in the room and have some great ideas. Call for Participation proposals are due September 24. I will aim towards social software and see where it leads….
Did Blaster Cause the Blackout?
Did Blaster Cause the Blackout? "there is a very good plausibility that the recent East Coast power outage was due to an attack by an MSBlaster variant on the SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system at the power plant master terminal, or more likely at several of the remote terminal units (RTUs). SCADA runs under Win2000 / XP and the telemetry to the RTU is accessible via the Internet."…
Irish Fat Tax
Reuters covers a move by some to cut down on obesity in Ireland. Cutting Irish alcohol and happy hours seems like a very dangerous endeavour for any politician….
Microsoft’s Big Role on Campus
Washington Post covers the molding of campus curriculum by Microsoft. Any language where the IDE is not free or relatively cheap to students will stifle learning. In one of my econometrics classes at UCLA students were offered scaled down versions of Stata for $50. I do not know one person who purchased the program for use at home. The professors were bound by lab hours and available workstations and their curriculum suffered as a result. Visual Studio .Net 2003 Academic is $100 at the UCLA Store. Visual C# .Net is $60. Yes, you could have students write in Notepad, vi,…
Java is a language, .NET is not
Philip Brittan writes that Java is a language, .NET is not….
Soccer Conditioning
I just bought Sigi Schmid's book on soccer conditioning. Looks like I will have to wait until October 25 until I get it autographed. It should come in handy as a refresher as I work towards my coaching license….
The Ghost in Your Machine
Business Week interview with Chris Forsythe of Sandia about cognitive machines. The Sandia news release is pretty interesting as well….
Community Books
There is a local San Francisco project where people can share books and videos. "The Distributed Library Project is an experiment in sharing information and building community in the San Francisco Bay Area." Seems interesting and worth checking out. I posted most of my books online tonight. It was pretty simple to enter a ISBN and have the author, genre, and even a review from Amazon filled out for you….