The consequences of hooking stuff up to the Internet without sufficient care are going up all the time: Iranian Cyber Attack on New...
Let's all pledge to match spending on movies with donations in memory of Aaron Swartz
With the release of Rust 0.5, I polished up a little analysis of issues using R and the github issue API. I initially downloaded...
The Blizzard of Oz snow day gave me a chance to get my taxes done yesterday, and today I used the time to scratch a long-standing...
The new year brings a reminder that we have turned our culture over to Viacomm, AOL/TW, Disney, Clear Channel, and News Corp, with...
Everybody wonders how artists and publishers are going to survive in the age of digital distribution. I tried running ads here like...
In my original April 2007 episode about this 64bit machine, I went with 32bit (i386) Ubuntu because I got the impression that...
Getting a new G1 T-Mobile Google cell phone is an investment in the android platform, which isn't yet mature. It's like getting a...
Music Collections and Office Organization It worked this time. I wonder why. I have been trying to rip Paul Simon's Graceland using...