You may think that last post sounded a bit paranoid, but ask yourself this. Assuming that this information was pulled from a press release, someone who wrote that press release decided to throw usenet and IRC out there as havens for illegal file swappers. Someone with enough knowledge of the internet to go there and…
Web Movie Piracy Up 20 Pct or More This Year-Study -now what I want you to notice about this story is not so much the main fact, but the way in which certain internet technologies are portrayed, because I believe this is a precursor to an attack by the MPAA and RIAA against Usenet and…
I was just going through a stack of old manuals to see which ones I could safely throw away when I discovered something that is truly the most useless thing I’ve seen in 5 years of working here. An install disk for AOL version 1.5. (circa 1992, I think) It’s the PC version though, if…
Per a link from Evan: Managing Incoming E-mail: What Every User Needs to Know. I’ll let you know if it’s any good. Well I had hoped to read it today anyway but between yet another failed hard drive and a request to create an Access DB for survey results, I find myself suddenly swamped. Amazing…
I officially switched the RSS Feed over to the new BloggerPro version of it, since it came out of Beta and into production. Now if you click the little “XML” image on the right side, you’ll go to that feed instead of the old one. The old one will continue to work for now, but…
I was hoping the long weekend would never end, but it did. So sad! It’s ok, it’s storming outside now, so it’s not like I’m missing good weather! Anyway, thanks for the debate Scoble! It’s been fun to have some back and forth on the topic, without it getting personal. I’ll admit I can see…