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Despicable

As the Stanley Cup playoffs rage on, a select crew of Canadian players whose teams are out of the running are over in Moscow defending Canada’s great cultural hockey tradition at the IIHF Hockey World Championships. The 2007 team, which was given a pass this...

Search Goes Open-Source

If you happen to be, like me, in the throes of hoisting a company that incorporates some flavor of Search technology as a key capability, you know that its value in managing and sorting the torrent of internet information pouring out of blogs and everything else these...

The MacBook Pro Needs an Expansion Bay

Eric Cheng has just rocked his MacBook Pro. He installed a second hard drive called the MCE Optibay which replaces your internal SuperDrive with a standard notebook hard drive and took it a step further by striping the disks (RAID 0). This gives him a pretty big...

Backup Bliss with OS X

Recently I lost a bunch of data from a MacBook Pro that spun off of the corner of my sofa onto my hardwood floor. Ouch. My last backup had been about a month earlier so I lost some pretty important stuff I was working on at the time and had to spend hours mungeing the...

Hello World.

I’m back. Looking forward to sharing ideas and communicating my deepest, innermost thoughts in this roadside confessional. I think this blogging thing may be taking off. More on why I’m online here. Thanks to Riki Tiki Tavi for her invaluable help getting...

RIP HDMI: Misadventures with Shaw, Motorola PVRs, and HDCP

So, my Motorola DCT6412 Packed it in over the weekend (note to self: add ventilation to my entertainment console… plasma TVs, Receivers, PVRs, AppleTVs, and XBOX360s can generate lots of heat) and I swapped it with my cable company, Shaw Cable, for a newer...

Warning Labels on Fat Kids

Some folks wanna put warning labels on Soft Drinks. I think that, just to be sure, the US should install warning labels on all fingers indicating that putting them in proximity to one’s mouth while holding food could result in dire obesity, particularly in North...

Verisign’s Domain Redirects

Begin forwarded message: > From: Jeffrey Kay > Date: Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:20:55 AM US/Pacific > To: FoRK > Subject: Verisign’s Domain Redirects > > Seems like DNS is in trouble yet again. This is a pretty interesting > issue. > One could argue that managing a root...

Putting A Lid on Broadband..

http://news.com.com/2100-1034-5079624.html Putting a lid on broadband use By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com http://news.com.com/2100-1034-5079624.html Earlier this month, a Philadelphia Comcast broadband subscriber got a letter from his service provider,...