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Completely unscientific phone review

We got new phones on Friday night, Hubby got a Droid Eris, I got the Motorola Devour. Sunday afternoon I exchanged the Devour for an Eris and I like it much better. This was what I didn't like with the Devour: Weight and form factor The Devour has

Milestones and inchpebbles

This is my 1500th blog post. I started on January 10th 2002, using Blogger and free hosting on a site long gone. These days I have WordPress and my own domain name on paid hosting. It's time to make a new blog theme. Some elements will stay the

Spam statistics

Got an interesting email from Project Honeypot this week. Project Honeypot works against spammers who harvest email addresses from websites, which is illegal in some countries. You can either install a honeypot on your site, or a link to someone else's honeypot. Spammers who harvest the addresses on

Google Wave

Got my invite for Google Wave a couple of weeks ago, and I've been playing with it a bit. Stable it is not. Bug free it is not. But fun? It could be. Useful? Maybe. My first impression is that it is a bigger, better version of instant

Browser Wars

<RANT grump_factor="snark"> Got Internet Explorer 8 on my Windows box at work, and I do NOT like it. It put a folder of "Microsoft Websites" in my Favourites, and I couldn't delete them from the browser, kept getting "this

Updating the Three Laws

(I wanted my 1400th post to be on a geeky science subject, so here it is!) How do you program regret, guilt, or remorse? How do you build a conscience? Read this article in Wired: Robo-Ethicists Want to Revamp Asimov’s 3 Laws Two years ago, a military robot used

The anonymity of bloggers

Blogging about work under a pseudonym is a more risky business today than it was last week. There was a British police detective who blogged anonymously under the name NightJack and received an Orwell Prize for it. A reporter for the Times newspaper decided to find out who was behind

Architectural Lego

Wired: Frank Lloyd Wright Lego Sets Brick by brick, Lego has been building its way out of the near bankruptcy it suffered around the turn of the century. It has done this by a seemingly simple strategy - making awesome product after awesome product. Now it is releasing the almost

UK Internet Censorship

(Link via Random Acts of Reality.) Wired UK: The hidden censors of the internet. Journey with us to a state where an unaccountable panel of censors vets 95 per cent of citizens’ domestic internet connections. The content coming into each home is checked against a mysterious blacklist by a group

Happy Birthday Mac

BBC News: Apple's first Macintosh turns 25 The Macintosh - the first Apple computer to bear the name - turns 25 on 24 January. The machine debuted in 1984 and kicked off a product line that were Apple's flagship computers for many years. The Macintosh helped

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