JoDee and I are making our way through Babylon 5 for the first time. Well, I'm watching it, but JoDee is falling asleep through most of it. But what is really hard to manage is not getting spoilers for the show. Look up an actor on the net, and their …

Q: How do you know when the next Ubuntu is close to release?

A: When the Canonical vs. the community posts hit Planet Ubuntu.

I've joked in the past that every single release of Ubuntu has to have some tempest-in-a-teapot event occur that causes people to get upset over the …

I don't know if most of you were around in the early days of phones, but there was a time when phone companies actually leased you the phone you were using. Every month as part of your bill you would send them something extra for each of the phones that …

Like most people who listen to music I have a Last.fm page which busily "scrobbles" all of my listening habits. It's not that I'm particularly interested in giving CBS (the parent company of Last.fm) my listening habits; it's just easy to send them along via my Squeezebox, and …

Yesterday, Lance Armstrong felt it was time to fess up to something that we pretty much already knew: Lance Armstrong was using performance enhancing drugs in order to help him win all of those cycling achievements. The outrage that followed was predictable: people believed in Lance's abilities to push the …