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First there was Flickr. I liked Flickr a lot; it was a very convenient way to share photos with my friends and family. I didn’t know anybody on the Flickr team personally or anything, but it was clearly a small, bright outfit. The vibe of the site made me feel comfortable letting them keep track […]

I’ve been pretty happy with ZoneLabs’ ZoneAlarm firewall software since my computer security expert friend recommended it a couple years ago, but the update I installed this morning made it virtually useless.
The way ZoneAlarm works has always been pretty simple: whenever a program tries to open an Internet connection, you get a dialog telling you […]

Huzzah to Boston Globe for daring to print author Ross Gelbspan’s op-ed piece, the first (to the best of my knowledge) in a major mainstream US media outlet to connect the dots. The severity of the damage done by Katrina is related to the storm’s total energy, which is related to the temperature of […]

don’t worry, i’m not gonna make a habit of rehashing posts from slashdot. but this interested me because while it’s not unusual to hear gadflies like me shrilling about how the damage MS’s hegemony wreaks; it’s more noteworthy to hear the same sentiment coming from comparatively sober industry publication (not a clean link; ‘ware tracking […]

anti firefox slant in the press, why?

spaces don’t belong in filenames.