Lots of folks are pitching a fit with MS over this bad boy, and certainly MS deserves some blame for the faults in their software. On the other hand, Outlook is getting better at recognizing dangerous attachments (at least the beta of 2003 seems to me to be better at it), it’s starting to not…
O’Reilly ended his presentation with a William Gibson quote: “The future is here now, it’s just not evenly distributed yet” That pretty much sums up what he talked about, the internet as the ultimate collaboration tool. Examples of places that are already letting users build the value included Google’s PageRank, Amazon’s reviews, etc. None of…
Chris’ college roomate put together a funny parody of “Behing the Music” in honor of Chris turning 30 today. I hope they can get a copy of it up on the web, it’s pretty fun. At lunch we learned that the city of Des Moines had proclaimed this Chris Pirillo day in honor of both…
I just updated the virus definitions on my machine, which I always do first, as a test, before moving on to the other machines. Of course, my AV is not working properly now! Ugh! Oh, and my first attempt at posting this ended in utter failure as well, when our internet connection belched for a…
Since today is a big day, as far as Supreme Court decisions coming out, it’s only fitting that I hit a couple of legal questions. First, the Supremes did rule that libraries can be forced to use internet filters. Now, personally, I hoped for something better, but thought this would come out this way. (Of…
Dave is complaining about Verizon. The “install” of the DSL service branded his browser, changed his homepage and changed all the email server settings. Yeah, Roadrunner’s “install” did the same thing, when all it really needed was the gateway IP and DNS servers. In fact, once I got my router pointed at the correct gateway,…