The past few months have been full of wonderful announcements about increasingly large storage at ever declining per-gigabyte prices. Pretty much most of the big manufacturers of USB key drives have released 4gb drives in recent months and street prices are starting to fall below $300 for some of these models. I’m a big fan…
January, 2006
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin apparently decided to join the ranks of nutcases like Pat Robertson in proclaiming that natural disaster, such as Hurricaine Katrina, is God’s punishment. Nagin said today, Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it’s destroyed and put stress on this country. .…
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Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech” is easily one of the most iconic — if not the iconic — American speech of the 20th century. And thanks to the King Foundation’s ironclad grip on King’s work, many schools cannot allow their students to listen to or watch the speech. Not a few…
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The main problem with being opposed to capital punishment, as I am, is that there are a lot of organizations also opposed to capital punishment who seem to be run by Michael Dukakis liberals — the sort of people who will fight tooth and nail for convicted murderers but lack empathy and understanding of the…
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A few weeks ago I mentioned how impressed I was by Multiplicity, a program that lets you seamlessly control two or more computers with a single keyboard and mouse — when you drag the mouse off the screen of one computer, you’re suddenly controlling the other computer. Very cool. It turns out there is an…
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The other day I finally picked up the 40 Years of X-Men DVD-ROM at the local comic book store. That’s 480 issues of X-Men/Uncanny X-Men (the first series) from 1965 through 2005. Like the previous offerings of Spider-Man and The Fantastic Four, all of the comics are scans of actual comics in PDF format. There…
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Cory Doctorow recently quit his job and poured a little of that extra time he’s got to write this devastating attack against the world’s worst pseudo-journalist, The Register’s Andrew Orlowski. Orlowski is so wrong so often you have to wonder if The Register doesn’t encourage him to make gross errors of fact simply because the…
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My house used to be wall-to-wall books, but I dumped several thousand of them before I bought my house because I was running out of space and I’d prefer to have books in digital form. Now my hard drive is overflowing with hundreds of electronic books. The main drawback to electronic books is finding a…
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Computerworld has an odd article warning about the dangers of data on CD-R being unrecoverable after just 5 years, “Unlike pressed original CDs, burned CDs have a relatively short life span of between two to five years, depending on the quality of the CD,” Gerecke said in an interview this week. “There are a few…
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As you can see, we’ve got a new look for this site courtsey of VanPutten Interactive. There are some elements of the design that need to be tweaked and some areas of the site may be broken for a bit as I integrate the new template into Conversant’s template and macro system, but it’s about…