Category: Tech Bytes

From the Apple Server list, someone posted a link to this article. Great piece of you’re interested in computer (specifically server-related) security at all. Any article that can legitimately use the word “badness” gets a thumbs-up in my book. We’re off to Vermilion Bay this weekend for the annual meeting of Cambrian Presbytery (church stuff).… Continue reading Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

So that it’s recorded somewhere that at least *I* can find easily, from this PC World Article: Sometimes the best e-mail and chat support in the world is no substitute for a conversation with a real person. But that kind of talk isn’t cheap, so to cut costs, Net-based companies like Amazon often make their… Continue reading You Can Call Amazon, EBay, and Other Web Businesses

November 29 — Happy Birthday to me! — 3.5 miles, Treadmill, 3 degree incline November 30 — Day Off The nice thing about reaching the anaerobic stage in my runs is that it leaves me free to think about things other than the sound of my breathing. One of the things that occurred to me… Continue reading Idea Today: Immersive Associative Browsing

Via the Scobleizer, we find the Invisible Train, a train that runs on wooden tracks (a la Thomas the Tank Engine, a known favourite in our household), but really doesn’t. Those crazy college kids: The Invisible Train is a mobile, collaborative multi-user AugmentedReality (AR) game, in which players control virtual trains on a real woodenminiature… Continue reading The Invisible Train

I need a category for “so cool I can’t stand it.” Mike Melville did it again this morning, and took SpaceShipOne past the 65.3 mile mark, and completed part one of the two parts to win the Ansari X prize. Note the Virgin logo that is now on the tail of SpaceShipOne. Who cares? This… Continue reading 343,000 Feet, and one of Two