• Archive for August 8th, 2005

    Daylight-saving change could confuse gadgets

    by  • 8/8/2005 • life • 0 Comments

    I hadn’t even thought about this… digital watches, cell phones, TVs, VCRs, DVD players, older computers, clocks, cars, embedded systems all over the place… At least with Y2K there was more notice, it wasn’t avoidable in 1995, and it was general human stupidity that caused the original problem; not specific human stupidity. I’m looking at [...]

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    Today@Playlist: Insomnia and the search for long songs

    by  • 8/8/2005 • life • 0 Comments

    Today@Playlist: “Unable to sleep, I journeyed to the iTunes Music Store in search of white noise. I came away with more than I—or, in all likelihood, Apple—bargained for.” (Via MacCentral.) Up to a half-hour of music (or speech, or whatever) for a buck; not a bad deal if you’re not too picky. I’m a fan [...]

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    Jeremy’s Book for Bl0gging Wannabes is coming…

    by  • 8/8/2005 • geek, meta---ging • 0 Comments

    “Bl0gs will soon become a staple in the information diet of every serious businessperson . . . . Bl0gs offer an accelerated and efficient approach to acquiring and understanding the kind of information all of us need to make business decisions.” — John Battelle, Business 2.0 Go buy Jeremy’s book; buy it from him directly [...]

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    US Copyright Office Investigates Move to IE Only

    by  • 8/8/2005 • life • 1 Comment

    Well, I’m not personally in trouble with this, but moving to any system that is tied in this way to Internet Explorer would cut off any Macintosh users or Linux users for a start. I’m thinking that your average CFO / CEO / CTO type that would be filing the paperwork wouldn’t tend to be [...]

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    Crackpot Bl0g Spam

    by  • 8/8/2005 • life • 0 Comments

    Okay, I’ve been keeping one blog spam in my moderation queue for some time because I’ve been trying to figure it out. It appears to be the writing of a crazy person; maybe not Timecube Guy quality crazy, but crazy nonetheless. There were no links or offers to sell anti-Mafia tinfoil hat plans or anything [...]

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