If you want your cell phone to continue to provide you with long years of service, we recommend that you do not clean your phone by washing it in your pants pocket. This public service announcement brought to you by someone who has been there, and now needs to replace his cell phone. Ugh!
As part of a $143 million lawsuit, the RIAA decided to pay with merchandise. Of course the value of unsold production is downright questionable.
Digital Rights Management (or Digital Restrictions Management, as Richard Stallman has coined it) is an umbrella term for the copy protection that corporations are using to try and protect their digital assets. Cory Doctrow gave a speech at Microsoft outlining why DRM doesn’t work. Worth a read. Here’s hoping companies take this logic to heart [...]
JoDee and I went to see Primus last Friday! What an incredible show! Les Claypool is quite the showman, and Larry and Tim are incredibly talented musicians! Jaw dropping! Unfortunately our experience was marred by the soundman. Same with the Rush concert. What is it with these bozos cranking up the music to the point [...]
What JoDee was referring to when she said “I hope Craig gets to work before 11 am this morning” was that the traffic this morning was beyond atrocious on I-696. A steel hauler lost part of it’s load on the freeway just before M-10 (The Lodge) and backed up traffic for 10-12 miles. It took [...]
I’ve been using Firefox 0.9rc1 as of late, and I must say that it truly is one of the best browsers out there. Mad Penguin has a review, but suffice to say, Firefox is the browser of the future, and unless Microsoft comes up with some new technology to make the browser so completely and [...]
Released a new script today called “pingreset”. It takes care of an issue I’ve had where my link will be dead, but will still remain online. This script makes several http requests to some servers to verify that everything is still working. If they all fail, then the link resets. You can find it under [...]
Woo hoo! Pistons won the championship! Oh, wait… I forgot… I don’t like sports. :)
Testing from the new Redhat 9 installation I did. Hopefully it works just fine. :)
Woo hoo!!! Rush is in concert tonight! Too bad they’re being promoted by evil incarnate (cc) but seeing Rush on their 30th is enough to make one look the other way… right?
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