by Tom | Mar 26, 2002 | General
Corporate America Cashing In on Porn. Suddenly its a pr0n is big story, rather than an internet pr0n is big…
by Tom | Mar 26, 2002 | General
Update Office XP. How to get Office XP updated to SP1 correctly.
by Tom | Feb 28, 2002 | General
Gap pins loss on poor fashion sense / CEO apologizes for bright leather jackets and ’some very strange-looking jeans’ . “We probably got a little bored at being consistent and simple,” said Drexler, in a conference call with investors....
by Tom | Feb 28, 2002 | General
Is software innovation gone?. According to an article by Rob Pike from Bell Labs, software innovation is more or less dead (and Microsoft isn’t at fault). For example: high-end PC hardware went from 33Mhz/32MB RAM in 1990 to 600Mhz/512MB RAM in 2000, but in that...
by Tom | Feb 28, 2002 | General
World’s First Designer Baby. Yet another science fiction tale has passed recently from the fanciful to the present; this time the story in question is genetically predesigned babies. Seventeen months ago, a woman in Chicago gave birth to the first designer baby....
by Tom | Feb 28, 2002 | General
Security Quandary: Who’s Liable?. The start of the argument: who should pay for security issues? If they’re the result of an internal misconfiguration then probably the company who configured. If it’s an unknown side-effect of installing software,...
by Tom | Feb 28, 2002 | General
Stolen Restaurant Napkins Are Just a Start. I wonder how much of this happens in the UK. Just as much, I assume, from the number of Mezzo ashtrays around…
by Tom | Feb 28, 2002 | General
Great article about the power of weblogs. Specifically, how you can Googlebomb companies using them.
by Tom | Feb 28, 2002 | General
Stuck in a moment. Salon rant about the Emmys. Score 3: Funny.
by Tom | Feb 28, 2002 | General
Intel backs consumers over Hollywood. Finally, someone is doing the right thing.