In case you are not aware, Sony BMG recently released over 50 music titles with some anti-piracy software on the CDs. The software, dubbed XCP, silently installs a "root kit" on a Windows computer, opening up some nasty security risks. The only difference between XCP and the stuff the you buy McAfee VirusScan or Norton […]
St. Charles to Madison — Conveniently
Yesterday, Candy, David and I flew to Madison, Wisconsin for a cousin’s bat mitzvah. Marian did great and was properly celebrated on this step into adulthood. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting her and reconnecting with cousins whom I have not seen in ages. This was one of those trips seemingly designed for a small plane. Had […]
Transitioning to Greener Fuels
If only we could stop using fossil fuels, polution levels would plummet, colicky babies would be cured, my Husky dog would shed less, and world peace would prevail. Hydrogen, solar power and electricity offer tantalizing alternatives to gasoline, natural gas, and coal. There are lots of problems with switching to hydrogen, including the cost of […]
Flying High
We got it! Yesterday, Candy and I picked up our new baby, 1968 Piper Arrow N7430J and flew it home to St. Charles County Smartt airport. To say that I am thrilled would be an understatement. The radios, including the GPS, worked flawlessly. The flight from Kentucky back to Missouri was a joy on a […]
How Low Can You Go?
If you are one of those people always trying to get a little more gut thumpinig bass out of your audio system, you might consider the Model 17 from Eminent Technology. This beast does not even have an enclosure. It just uses your house. Want to hear what 5Hz sounds like? A new woofer technology […]
MySQL 5 Arrives
eWeek writes, MySQL 5 Arrives Three years in the making, MySQL 5.0 was finally released on Monday. MySQL AB delivers new, and long-awaited, ANSI SQL features in this latest version of the popular open-source DBMS. These new features include both read-only and updated views, stored procedures row-level triggers, both read-only and non-scrolling server-side cursors, and […]
Bank Shuts Down Web Site After Phishing Attack
Would you like to lose all of the money in your bank accounts? Fall for a phishing attack. These are web sites which are cleverly designed to look like your real bank’s web site but which actually collect your personal information and hand it over to crooks and thieves. Here is a short story about […]
Highly Recommended: OpenOffice.org 2.0
The long anticipated version 2.0 of OpenOffice.org (the $free Microsoft Office "replacement") was released yesterday. OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the equivalent of Microsoft Office Professional: Access, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint plus a drawing program which Office does not have. Additionally, OOo can create Adobe Acrobat files, which Office cannot. Did I mention that OOo costs nothing? […]
What Computers Do At Night
Ever wonder what your computer does at night while you are sleeping? This movie will show you. Oh… and turn up the volume on your speakers before you click on that link.
Free Database Software
MySQL 5.0 Database software, such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, can be tremendously expensive, often costing more than the rest of the entire computing system (hardware, operating system, and application software). It looks like this equation may be changing. The Register reports in, MySQL destined for ‘majority’ market share MySQL is fast approaching majority […]
The Top 5 Reasons Your Home Office Is Not Working Out
As a home office worker, I about fell out of my chair when I read this list from TopFive.com Unlike your co-workers, your kids are smart enough not to buy your cover story of “naughty copier elves” when they find your butt-scans. Every office has at least one total a-hole, and you’re the only one […]
Doctors challenge baby feeding myths
A large sense of skepticism rises in me whenever people start to tell me how babies and children “should” be raised. I figure that we humans have been around for a long time and most of us got reared to adulthood without parenting books, classes or guidelines created by medical or governmental committees I am […]
Laptop Will Not Hibernate
This is so frustrating. I have this nifty new laptop that I have upgraded to 1.25 GB of memory and it will not hibernate. Virtually all of the time, I get a bubble that says, “Windows – System Error, insufficient system resources exist to complete the API,” just like in this screen snapshot which I […]
Antique Books in Your [Virtual] Hands
You have access to pure magic in the computer screen you are looking at right now. Through the prestidigitations of the British Library, you can actually examine books hundreds of years old. BL has picked 15 fascinating examples including One of Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks Mercator’s first European atlas from the 1570s The original Alice […]
Two More Flights
Last Saturday was simply beautiful with blue sky, calm winds, and moderate temperatures. I reserved N6343D and took Kevin and David up again, this time to dawdle about in the sky over our house, their school, the local baseball stadium and whatever else caught our fancy. Along the way I flew over to Spirit of […]
Coming to a Browser Near You: Microsoft Office Replacement for Free
This press release on Sun’s web site announces the new agreement between Sun and Google for Google Desktop on Sun’s Java platform. That is very nice but the last couple of paragraphs hint at something much bigger: Only the Beginning The distribution of Java and the Google Toolbar underscores Google’s advocacy of Java technology…. The […]
A Better Photographic Mousetrap
Every once in awhile, someone integrates existing technologies in a way that clearly makes life better in simple, clear ways. I think that Kodak has done so with their EasyShare-One camera. Wired News reports it well in, Death of the Digital Middleman After a summer-long delay, Kodak has begun shipping the first digital camera with […]
Clueless Republicans
Gargh! SPACE.com’s article includes, “A group of Republican lawmakers led by Mike Pence of Indiana last week said the $104 billion to replace the shuttles with a new spaceship and rockets to carry astronauts back to the moon ought to be canceled to help pay to rebuild the hurricane-wrecked Gulf Coast.” I wonder if we […]
Protected: CHOICES Presentation Handbook
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Cheaper Memory: Thanks iPod Nano?
Nikonians News: Cheaper Memory: Thanks iPod Nano? mentions, “Consumers may enjoy short-term price drops on flash memory-based products thanks in part to the iPod Nano.” If you are looking to buy another memory card for your digital camera, this fall may be the time. I knew that I liked the iPod Nano; now I have […]
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