I’ve been posting over at stuckatmydesk.com, my personal website.
The tech stuff is probably going to be posted over there.
If I can cross-post, I’ll do that as well. I’d like to keep both sites but I work so much these days that I can’t keep up with all of my websites.
I’ll keep everyone posted on what the future will be.
I predict that CNET will become CBSNET after the dust settles from the CBS acquisition of CNET.
I just wanted to get my prediction on proverbial paper before they change the name.
In other words tech people, no body cares about your political views on anything. They watch you, listen to you, and or tolerate you because of your technical savvy and electrical goodness.
If anyone that I follow on Twitter because of their technical background starts talking about politics, I’m going to have to stop following them.
I can’t take it anymore.
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We are just doing a physical move. Everything else will be the same.
I’ve been writing brand new code and that’s why I haven’t posted much these days.
We will getting back on track soon and will be under our parent website umbrella.
Our parent website can be found here.
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Very awesome stuff here..
via Wired…
Trent Reznor introduces his latest album, The Slip, with a note that reads, “Thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years — this one’s on me.”
He means it. The album is available for free in what could be the perfect array of digital formats: MP3, lossless (FLAC or Apple) or 24-bit, 96-kHz WAV files that sound better than the CD would have, if Reznor had bothered to release one yet. Vinyl and CD versions will go on sale in July, according to the Nine Inch Nails site.
Go vote. As a “dude,” I just voted for my favorite.
The ladies can choose the “hot” thing. I wouldn’t know.
Vote now. The fate of the free world may hang in the balance and your single vote could turn it all around. 
Not sure who Amanda Congden is at this point but, she makes web videos about web videos according to Valleywag…
I found these stories interesting…
Apple Releasing DVD downloads as soon as the DVD is released.
Good news for iTunes addicts: Apple is making full movie downloads available on the same day DVDs are released. New-release downloads will be priced at $15, while catalog titles will still cost $10 per download.
It was a decidedly underhanded move — Apple’s slipping that copy of Safari 3.1 in with the latest version of its Windows-software update. But beyond annoying and alienating a sizable portion of users, it also appears it was rather effective.
According to Net Applications, the sneaky update, which included a copy of the new (non-beta) web browser, actually increased Safari’s Windows market share threefold over the course of one month.
“Safari 3.0 on Windows never gained much market share, peaking at 0.07 percent,” the company notes. “However, Safari 3.1 on Windows is rapidly gaining market share, already tripling Safari 3.0’s peak.”
The Defense Department hasn’t kept close enough watch over the contractors working on its most important aircraft program, the Joint Strike Fighter. And as a result, “the advanced aviation and weapons technology for the JSF program may have been compromised,” the Department of Defense’s Inspector General notes in a report, obtained by the Project on Government Oversight.
The Pentagon is working with eight other countries to build a single, stealthy, single-engine fighter that is supposed to be a low-cost replacement for a huge variety of aircraft — the A-10, F-16, F/A-18, even the British Harrier jump jets. More than 2,400 JSFs are planned over the next several decades, at a cost of $337 billion.
Saving gas has now become a full time sport.
from Reuters…
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - As U.S. gasoline prices hit records on almost a daily basis, an increasing number of motorists are following a radical driving technique designed to eke out every last mile from a tank of fuel.
Known as ‘hypermiling,’ the method can double gas mileage, even in gas-guzzling vehicles that would normally get less than 20 mpg.
Promoted on a growing number of Web sites, hypermiling includes pumping up tires to the maximum rating on their sidewalls, which may be higher than levels recommended in car manuals; using engine oil of a low viscosity, and the controversial practice of drafting behind other vehicles on the highway to reduce aerodynamic drag — a practice begun a few years ago by truck drivers.
For clarification, “drafting” is considered OK on a racetrack like Daytona. “Drafting” on the highways of America is called “Tailgating.”
from Wired News…
1964: In the predawn hours of May Day, two professors at Dartmouth College run the first program in their new language, Basic.
Mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz had been trying to make computing more accessible to their undergraduate students. One problem was that available computing languages like Fortran and Algol were so complex that you really had to be a professional to use them.
from Reuters…
RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi blogger detained without charge for more than four months after expressing pro-reform opinions has been released, a colleague said on Saturday.Fouad Farhan was detained in early December after running an online campaign over 10 men arrested since February 2007 on suspicion of financing militant groups, but whose supporters say they are being punished for pro-democracy activity.
“I spoke to him and he’s in good spirits. He said he was treated really well,” said Ahmed al-Omran, who published the news on his website (http://www.saudijeans.org).
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