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Born to Laugh

Or at least created with the intent to make us giggle is a newly ‘birthed’ web comic with heavy geek undertones; no un-initiated should wander here.

Get thee to blaugh.com as soon as possible. It may prove to be as insightfully and technically amusing as Joy [...]

FBI to require backdoors.

Everyday I see news stories, action notices on political websites, and other things that make me fear more and more for our information privacy. Articles like this one are truly scary.

The FBI has drafted sweeping legislation that would require Internet service providers to create wiretapping hubs for police surveillance and force makers of networking gear to [...]

To Giggle or Not to Giggle

“Google” declared a verb:

“Google” declared a verb 7/6/2006 10:09:59 AM, by Nate Anderson Having the public use your company name as a verb is, in one way, a marketer’s Shangri-la. Many companies would kill for the name recognition and popularity of “xerox,” “google,” and “hoover.” For the companies themselves, though, being “verbed” has its [...]

Apparently I spend all day working with ‘tubes.’

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a truck.

It’s a series of tubes.

- Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), Senate Commerce Committee

I’m going to have to assume that despite the last name, he is not related to W. Robert Stevens [...]

The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same

I’ve decided to try out a new blog space, or perhaps more than one. A cleaner, simpler more editable space; free from the confines of such things as friends lists.

We’ll see what happens, won’t we? It may be that I will have nothing to say, or nothing of meaning that anyone beyond myself will wish to [...]