I’ve got to say, out of all the Bloggers out there Andy Updegrove is definately earning my respect.  He clearly gets to the point of the matter without pussyfooting around.
To wit, why journalists insist on presenting “two sides” and think this is “objective”.  Let me illustrate.
If I say “The moon is made of cheese!” and […]

Basically, the French lawmakers have dropped all the provisions of the law that made it fair and left in all the provisions that make it utterly draconian.  I say we should skip all the dressing and go straight to corporal punishment for copyright infringment.
Who needs to imprison or execute rapists and murderers when there are […]

Microsoft is pitching Nintendo’s Wii as the answer to the PS3. Why it would give the Nintendo system a shout aside it’s own kit is unclear, aside from Microsoft folks having the marketing sense of a roadside lemonade vendor.  I’m guessing they do their best when they’ve managed to crush all competition in a market […]

The American Gub’ment is continuing it’s war on porn.  Showing exactly how neutral ICANN is, they’ve forced the board to vote against the .xxx domain.  The rest of the world be damned, apparently.
If you didn’t know better, you’d be forgiven for thinking that porn is illegal in the States based on recent actions and onerous […]

Veridicus over at Gadgets Wanted has pointed out a pretty neat gadget for checking on what’s running over the wireless channels.  You can achieve a similar effect with a 802.11 card and one of the many signal strength monitoring programs.  I’m assuming they have those in Windows too?
This puppy goes beyond that though, and monitors […]

Massachusetts is just abounding with special interest groups that don’t want the government to use Open Standards.  They’ll do everything from stifle innovation to give you cancer (but only in the state of California).  Funny how these groups come out of the woodwork to oppose any kind of standards yet remained silent on the fact […]

Bitch and ye shall receive, apparently.  Directly after complaining that game outlets aren’t free enough with those pre- or review products and PCBurn I got accepted on the latest LGP Beta test.  So naturally I’ll post about the experience when the game is actually released.
Since it *is* in fact a Beta, I’ll keep mum on […]

It looks like the IT crowd will soon be able to have their cake and eat it, too.  A small concern named Open Document Foundation Inc. is releasing a plugin for Microsoft’s Office that allows read/write to ODF formatted files.  This gets rid of a roadblock on the way toward open office document formats, as […]

Recently I tossed up a quick shot of my under construction L shaped desk. Now that’s done and the PCBurn office is already over-run with equipment both on test and for repair. Currently there’s a small horde of laptops lying around, part of both a hobby (I like to gut and repair/part out […]

So there are a few new games over at Tux Games. Northland is from the Runesoft and X2: The Threat was published by Linux Game Publishing.
And we’re finally getting them in to review over at PCBurn! Normally I don’t bother with the Linux releases because they’re so delayed from their Windows brethren.
Breaking that […]