Category: General

Rebecca Blood notes that the RIAA now blames CD burning for their lackluster sales. Maybe they should sing along with Beck. I’m a loser, baby, so why don&...

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There is power in names. You probably know that Oracle is a company, and that they sell databases. (Well, strictly speaking, they sell a database management sys...

I’ve been thinking off-and-on, mostly off, about how to configure individual home directories on a WebDAV server. What’s necessary for individual We...

A reprint from The Washington Post in today’s business section reaffirms what Web browsers already know: we’re bored. “We know that 55 percent...

Microsoft: an expletive

The saying goes, that nobody ever got fired for buying IBM (or whomever happens to be the Big Kahuna this week). Maybe they should have been.

Microsoft Outlook is a sorry excuse for a mailer. And Windows is an impenetrable mess of spaghetti. In short: Microsoft sucks.

The Associated Press ran a story this morning on a gentleman from Texas who’s travelling to every Starbucks. The story helpfully contained a link to this ...

Via Tim Bray via Sam Ruby, the Copyright Office asks whether a public entity should even consider writing vendor-specific markup. At this point in the process o...

The Little Sister makes us laugh. Daddy, carry me. I can’t walk; my leg is bored.

Consumer Reports's ISP comparison smackdown

The New York Times reports that there may be some architectural issues with a proposed Apple store on lower Fifth Avenue. Plunked amid a phalanx of ornate build...

On June 3rd, Viacom, the owner of WCBS 101.1 FM in New York City, bought an iPod Shuffle, changed that station’s format, and fired all the disc jockeys. W...

The girls found a turtle wandering in our yard, just a day after rescuing a baby bird which had fallen from its nest.

The New York Times noticed that the Disney theme parks are not meeting expectations. Of course they aren’t. The Quickie-Marts in Kissimmee are starting ne...

Rebecca Blood points to a Chronicle of Higher Education article on orphaned works. There’s a great deal of cost involved in finding the authors of many wo...

In “Lost in Translation: IA Challenges in Distributing Digital Audio,” Boxes and Arrows (June 15, 2005), Dan Brown writes On the other hand, a virtu...

One of the considerations with the location of a house is which school district it is in. In some states, determining the school district is easy: it’s co...

National Geographic has an excellent documentary based on Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel now playing on PBS. I suggest telling the TiVo to catch i...