Changes Is Good

There is a great game, time-sink, “work-day accelerator” that I’ve been using for the past few months to help while away the time between meetings. Its called “Just Letters” and the point is… well their really is no point. You move letters on a page and spell words or make short phrases, when you can [...]

This weekend I was cleaning out my briefcase (its really a bookbag) and discovered two yellowing, dog-eared research papers, covered with my chicken scratch and pink highlights from my favorite Sharpee. At some point I clearly thought these reports were important enough to print out and write on, but my mind works like the Ronco [...]

If a picture is worth a thousand words then I would have to write a book to say what these two cartoons do. Both cartoons via Boing-Boing.
This is is from a great book entitled Files are not for Sharing by Matthew Baldwin with art by Goopymart.

This one is from The Joy of Tech on Geek [...]

There is alot of google bashing these days from sites that track its "evilness" to pundits urging it to embrace its evilness. As an early, and modestly loyal, user of most Google applications I'm inclined to like their products (except Google Video, which sucks ass and Picasa, which still isnt as good as ACDSee8 ). [...]

A small consumer electronics company in NYC has launched another digital music device, called the MusicGremlin. The unfortunately named device is billed as a "Wi-Fi Music Player" and supposed to provide access to over 2 million songs from major label and indie artist. The $300 8GB MusicGremlin device offers anyone looking for a clunky, [...]

Arts and Letters Daily, which I read weekly, has a link to an essay by Jaron Lanier where he takes everything from Wikipedia to American Idol to task to its slavish adherence to a "collective mind". It is an interesting critique of many of the core ideas prevalent in online communities but its also [...]

This may come as a bit of a shock but I didnt invent the idea of witty commentary wrapped around news, editorials ramblings and wild conjecture. The boffins at Vulture Central have been offering the tech community this kind of fare, apparently since 1994. While a loyal reader of El Reg, recent articles have made [...]

This may come as a bit of a shock but I didnt invent the idea of witty commentary wrapped around news, editorials ramblings and wild conjecture. The boffins at Vulture Central have been offering the tech community this kind of fare, apparently since 1994. While a loyal reader of El Reg, recent articles have made [...]

Rejoice! The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) wants music lovers the world over to rest easy. In a display of grandstanding and showmanship not seen since P.T. Barnum, the BPI issue a grand proclamation of its own ineptitude. Here's the summary:
They wont sue consumers. Hooray!
But they are going to sue AllofMP3. Booo!
They wont sue [...]

In case you havent been keeping up, there is an ongoing war between the Luddite content industries and the ever popular BitTorrent site, The Pirate Bay. Unfortunately for the content industries, the scrappy torrent site has continually given them a very public and oft humors thrashing. Well last week they though all of that had [...]