One of my friends works up in New Hampshire and someone else up at FIRST (the robotics competition guys) got some good photos of the flooding up there. We’re not quite that bad yet, but my basements definately getting a few inches of water an hour.
Nasty, nasty weather. Can’t wait for it to stop. […]

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 […]

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 […]

I can’t even bring myself to come up with a funnier article header than that.  And this isn’t even a humor post!  It’s from CNET, not The Onion.
Also the quote  “For Microsoft, we always want to be in the lead, making the breakthroughs,” Gates said.?  Priceless.  And here I thought they generally just glommed […]

I’m starting to get back into the swing of writing with a bit of the op-ed on Linux.  This piece goes into why Freespire doesn’t pose a moral dillema and why no one really seems to care one way or the other.
PCBurn - PCBurn Editorial: Are Freespires Proprietary Packages a Problem?

Chalk up a loss for the RIAA in their fight against America.  Seems they didn’t even bother responding to a court order in the case against Brittany Chan to provide a functional way to get her the Guardian Ad Litem they insisted on.
In light of the inexplicable lack of response from the RIAA on the […]

Looks like everyone’s favorite software evangelist is going to keynote at 2600’s hope this year.  I might’ve worked on the networking over there (still might) but haven’t actually gotten any notification that the event’s occuring!  Odd how that works after volunteering last year.  I figured someone might at least blast out a mail on the […]

*stretch*, Hope everyone had a good.. no.. make that great weekend there.  I was busy being sick for most of it, BBQ’ing down in Queens for some of it.
Now one of the burning questions on my mind this morning is what to use for a backdrop when your city has been destroyed and you’re […]

Not only that, but they’re planning on making them in a coatable form.  Imagine painting them on the roof and shingles and you’ve got the right idea.  Just build them into the material you use to put your roof/siding together and away you go.
No word on how environmentally harmful the replacement process for the now-dated […]

Microsoft has a surprise for “pirates” alright.  It’s a surprise involving the fact that there’s nothing to “pirate” in Vista.
If you were trying to stop people from infringing on your licensing scheme, what would you do? You’d disable the ability of said people to use your software, right? Or at least give it […]