It made all the websites yesterday that Paris Hilton’s T-Mobile Sidekick got hacked leading to a public viewing of her cell phone pictures (some on the pornographic side) and hundreds of crank phone calls to famous people who had the misfortune of being in her address book.
I remember the first time this happened it [...]
Every time Apple comes out with a new product or idea (e.g. AppleStore, iTunes Music Store, and iPod Mini), some foreigner screams bloody murder and how unfair it is. This bothers me because it is the height of hypocrisy. These people are probably playing Final Fantasy X International Edition which is available in every [...]
Well I wanted to get Caitlin’s blog up and running. Then it hit me I had to allow her to edit her blog without the command line. Sure it is easy getting the Linux box to talk to the Mac Apple Fileshare, but how to get the Mac to work with the Linux box? She [...]
When my Powerbook G4/800 was stolen last year at Amsterdam, I gambled that Apple would have an interim release in January 2005 and announce a Powerbook G5 as early as June 2005, so I purchased my Powerbook hoping to tide me over for a revision B Powerbook G5 in 2006 at the earliest.
A couple weeks [...]
Last month I read Adam’s call OSCON papers. I mention this today because I have to submit something this weekend, but I remember reading something funny.
As usual, they’re desperate for PHP papers. In fact, the only thing they won’t take is a paper about your database abstraction layer or “Yet-Another-CMS“. I find this amusing and [...]
I guess I’m about 2 months behind the times, I found out that a silly shockwave flash song is making the rounds, much like the Spirit of Christmas, All Your Base, and the Star Wars Kid. Janice pointed it out to me and Cam found out that it’s some Romanian Eurodance group called O-Zone.
After I left my second startup in 2001, I’ve been obsessed with small, cheap and powerful computers.
At the time I used to say, “Common sense says that the converse of Moore’s Law1 is that a computer today is going to cost roughly half that in 18 months—i.e. you shouldn’t buy computing power until you need [...]
