But I’m sure my dad would have liked some of this gear back in WWII or even during Vietnam. It’s my son’s military, now. This article by Nate Anderson over at Ars Technica shows just what R&R techno-gear our military folks over in Iraq and Afghanistan can get hold of: One of Mikhail Woltering’s strangest […]
I’ve searched YouTube. I’ve watched YouTube. YouTube is my favorite “TV channel”. Believe me, Current TV is no YouTube. Let me explain. Tom Bevan, over at the excellent Real Clear Politics, points to a San Francisco Chronicle article by Joe Garofoli that compares and constrast’s Al Gore’s CurrentTV channel with the YouTube website. Garofoli starts […]
UPDATED (8/11/06): Here’s a story at Slashdot linking to an analysis by Paul Thurrott who feels that Apple is copying from Microsoft, rather than the other way around. The comments section at Slashdot quickly devolves into a techie equivalent of a junior high food fight. In the meantime, Danial Eran slaps back at Paul Thurott. […]
UPDATED (08/09/06): Welcome to Consumerist readers (and thanks to The Consumerist for the link)! I’ve run across two different stories recently that have the same theme: fundamental flaws in common physical security methods can result in (a) you losing your property (car, household goods) and (b) your insurance company refusing to pay because they don’t […]
One of my key principles in applying technology is that “more is not better.” Time Magazine has an excellent example of that, discussing the problems introduced by a change in climate control technology at the world-famous caves of Lascaux: Art restorer Rosalie Godin was overwhelmed for a very different reason when she was urgently called […]
UPDATE (08/11/06): Slashdot has a story about how the first Blu-Ray drives won’t play Blu-Ray movies. Sheesh. The companies really don’t want to succeed, do they? (And welcome, Slashdotters! Feel free to look around a bit.) Jay Wrolstad at Personal Tech has a story that says that there will be no clear winner in HD-DVD […]
Gerry Weinberg, who has been a leading light in software engineering for nearly 40 years, once famously remarked, “If builders build buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.” Up in Boston, it appears that the woodpeckers have struck, with tragic results. The Big Dig, as it […]
