Hardware Lust

Dear Santa, I would like a Compaq^H^H^H^H^H^H^H HP iPaq H3135 with a CompactFlash 802.11b card, so that I can give my mindstorms more brainz (“Igor, more brains. More brains.”). Also so I need this so I can read webpages on the john.

Microsoft Licences

Yesterday at work we needed more XP the OS and XP the Office Suite licences to install. Little did I know that you could buy just the licences. How weird. It’s been a long time since I actually bought software.

I attempted to talk the work guys into getting Linux and OpenOffice, but they wanted to spend $300 (and I really actually didn’t want to deal with it if it went wrong).

Dorothy Denning

Last time I heard of her she was spouting off about how we need the clipper chip. Now she’s quoted in a Washington Post story about Open Source in the Armed Forces, saying that, “I’ve never seen a systematic study that showed open source to be more secure.”

Does she work for Dr. Evil?

ps - Dorothy, why don’t you do that study?

The Paradox of the Best Network

If you read nothing else today try this. So now we have three dinosaurs (music, phone, software) of industry that are just in the way of rapid progress… and they’ve all shown they aren’t going out without a fight. Messy, messy, messy.

First Post

Ok. Finally I get to say FIRST POST.

Now with that lame joke out of the way….