So, this: http://www.liquidgeneration.com/rumormill/ipod_killing.html Someone bludgeoned someone else to death .. with an _iPod_? I mean … really? The iPod is sleek. The iPod is stylish. The iPod is easy to use. The iPod is in truth an excellent piece of industrial design, much like most…
I haven’t updated in, like, ages. So this is a multi-part one: WORK: Has been keeping me really busy. Sales dept keep dropping work on me, and some of the network stuff is surprisingly complex at that. PESKY! Wearing my R&D hat, the new wireless rooftop public…
I was reading this interesting article on some journalists testing the state of Florida’s Open Government laws, by having volunteers ask for certain documents under the law. All the documents were perfectly eligable to be viewed by anyone under their state laws. Further, anonymity is guaranteed, you don’t…
“Music Industry Piracy Investigations this morning raided the offices of P2P companies Sharman Networks and Brilliant Digital Entertainment, along with the homes of key executives and several ISPs.” “MIPI general manager Michael Speck told ZDNet Australia the order was specifically targeted at the operators of the Kazaa network. “This is…
I thought I was being hardcore when I bought the complete farside collection, but this offering from Fantagraphics is considerably more impressive: http://www.fantagraphics.com/peanuts/peanuts.html Yep, it’s EVERY PEANUTS STRIP .. EVER. Starting with Volume 1 (1950 to 1952), and from then on you get two…
Christian FUD: “Georgia students could graduate from high school without learning much about evolution, and may never even hear the word uttered in class. New middle and high school science standards proposed by state Schools Superintendent Kathy Cox strike references to “evolution” and replace them with the term “biological changes…
So. I’m at the start of growing my hair back out to its former majesty. Only, there are problems. Firstly, it takes longer to wash and stuff, but hey, that happens. But secondly…. and most terrifyingly …. it’s in a middle-stage where the back is getting quite long, but…
Cerebus the Aardvark is at Issue 300, which means that (a) Dave Sim will have written, drawn and self-published 300 issues of a comic book (about an anthropomophic aardvark) from 1977 to 2004, and (b) That I might finally get around to buying the last few trade paperback phonebooks in…