TechLinks (weekly)
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Scoble’s got a link and some of his own comments on Orkut. I pretty much agree, I didn’t find myself going over there much after the first few days. There simply wasn’t enough to hold my interest, even in the communities, which is maybe the best part of Orkut. The problem there is that those…
I’ve seen numerous pointers this morning to IntraVnews, an new aggregator that works along with Micorosoft Outlook. I might just have to try this out on the laptop. It’s free for personal use, I’d have to pay for it if I used it at work. I’ll probably download it tonight and see how it works…
I have said before that I think the biggest reason that customers and “regular” people don’t straight up demand businesses get better at security and privacy is that they don’t really understand it. This is closely followed by the fact that “regular people” aren’t necessarily damaged by these data leaks or anything else all that…
One of the PC’s here in the office just went from having over 400MB free on the C: drive to 4MB free in a matter of a few minutes. Apparently, using the graphics software to create a .pdf out of scanned documents left behind a handful of 99MB temp files, not to mention the 25MB…
Yesterday, between running around to meetings (I was out of the office attending meetings regarding other, personal, interests, bet you didn’t even notice?) I loaded up Trillian and ran into an error connecting to ICQ. Last night I did it again. I made a note to check the Trillian user forums and see if this…
This has been a week of problems. Seems like everywhere I turn things aren’t working the way they should, or used to, whether it’s an on-line tool, technology at work, or at home, it’s following me around! The wireless network card in my laptop is being finicky. I can create an explorer.exe crash in two…