Category: General

SAN ANTONIO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 18, 2005–Today marks the birth of AT&T Inc. and of a new standard-bearer in communications, entertainment...

The conflagration over in the ÃŽle-de-France reminded me of the fires in the South Bronx. An article from The Economist on the troubles includes a nice map and ...

I am subscribed to a list run by LISTSERV. The other day I changed my subscription settings to have LISTSERV not mangle the message headers. After I did that, s...

Yesterday I called Verizon Wireless 411. As the call the ended, the computer said, To have this number sent to you as a text message please press one (1) now. N...

I read the real estate section in the newspaper each weekend. An advertisement caught my eye. “A return to village life,” it read. The houses pictur...

The mechanical Turk was a hoax, the pretense being a machine which could play chess. Instead of a automaton playing chess, the Turk concealed a human chess mast...

At 09:00, “Good morning. How may I help you?” At 16:30, “I’m sorry. I can’t do that, Dave.” I don’t work these hours, ...

I should not be surprised, but I am. On the one hand, Sony music CDs autoinstall a rootkit. Read the instructions to disable autorun if you insist on buying med...

Have you watched children draw houses or towns? What kind did you draw when you were a child? Did they look like this? From what I’ve seen, children draw ...

I pointed out some incremental improvements in Google Maps to David Parmet, and he asked if I’d seen the Yahoo! Maps beta. I hadn’t, but now I have....

The Big Sister had two very important questions this morning. First, why do we celebrate Thanksgiving? And the obvious follow-up: What were the beds like at Pli...

Adam Bosworth and I share something in common. Unlike many of my peers in the computer industry, I was a history major in college and have loved and read histor...

Looks like the local CATV franchise is about to change hands again. This has been in the works since April, when Susquehanna Pfaltzgraf, a privately-held compan...

Then, back in the 1970’s, my little sister got her picture in the paper. My parents still have a copy somewhere in their house. Now, the Little Sister got...

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Ernie observes that some essential infrastructure is being restored in New Orleans. I have a strong sense that the one piece of infrastructure that the politici...

The following procedure requires administrative privileges. The instructions are specific to NTFS filesystems; Windows operating systems using the FAT filesyste...

Hey, Jenett‘s got the jackass where he lives too!

I’m turning off comments and trackbacks for the moment. My apologies for the inconvenience to those of you who want to add your pithy thoughts to my brill...

Power failed in Yorktown over the weekend. Among other side-effects, it hurt my uptime. # last reboot reboot system boot 2.2.15-4mdksecur Sun Oct 16 14:41 (2+01...