Resident Chiphead

Sorry. I’ve been working on my personal stuff lately.

Will post stuff soon.

…please.

Please go here, read, help, and repeat.

Thanks in advance.

They ARE coming folks. Our parent organization is still working out the taping schedules so that they work with the other projects that we do.

Thanks for your patience!

I will be posting the new video daily tips starting this Monday, May 12, 2008.

video [at] residentchiphead [dot] com

Email us with an idea or something you’d like to see covered.

Thanks for everyone who already submitted their tips.

I thought that the government wasn’t really allowed to keep secrets from itself?

Ha!

from Wired News.

The government’s new cyber-security “Manhattan Project” is so secretive that a key Senate oversight panel has been reduced to writing a letter to beg for answers to the most basic questions, such as what’s going on, what’s the point and what about privacy laws.

The Senate Homeland Security committee wants to know, for example, what is the goal of Homeland Security’s new National Cyber Security Center. They also want to know why it is that in March, DHS announced that Silicon Valley evangelist and security novice Rod Beckstrom would direct the center, when up to that point DHS said the mere existence of the center was classified.

Those are just two sub-questions out of a list of 17 multi-part questions centrist Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) sent to DHS in a letter Friday.

In fact, although the two say they asked for a briefing five months ago on what the center does, DHS has yet to explain its latest acronym.

Probably, one of the few government oversight projects that I completely agree with. Anytime you ask congress for money and/or funding you should be willing to fully disclose what you want the money for.

Banks do it. Why shouldn’t congress? Either way, it’s YOUR money.

I’m going to create a mailbox for your video help suggestions. You know, “How do I move something from one place to another on my computer?” Questions like that will be the basis of what I produce tutorials for.

Don’t worry. Nothing is too silly or too simple.

Sometimes, technology doesn’t make it easy. That’s what we’re here for!

Email your video tutorial suggestions to…

video [at] residentchiphead [dot] com

Stay tuned!

My address is mike [at] residentchiphead [dot] com

…if you need to complain or just vent about something.

…I’m back home in Massachusetts.

Long trip. Very tired. Must pass out now…

…right after I Twitter everyone and tell them how tired I am!

…the Resident Chiphead is heading home to New England.

I’m going to miss all of the TWiT stuff and the iJustine chatfest.

That sucks!

Have fun everyone!

From MacWorld…

Adobe on Monday announced that its venerable visual Web site creation tool GoLive has been discontinued. The company has ceased development and sales of GoLive effective Monday, April 28, 2008.

…also from PCWorld…

InfoWorld confirms that Dell will sell and support Windows XP to consumers beyond the June 30 Microsoft sales cutoff date that Microsoft reaffirmed today, after comments from CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday seemingly indicated it might reconsider that decision.

This is what’s going on so far…

This is awesome!

This is good news for those who are below 30 and have vision problems.

from Reuters…

LOS ANGELES/LONDON (Reuters) - Gene therapy for a rare type of inherited blindness has improved the vision of four patients who tried it, boosting hopes for the troubled field of gene repair technology, scientists said on Sunday.

Two separate teams of doctors reported successes in using gene therapy to treat Leber congenital amaurosis, or LCA.

LCA damages light receptors in the retina. It usually begins affecting sight in early childhood and causes total blindness by the time a patient is 30. There is no treatment.

How can you be found innocent in criminal court which, in effect, says you are innocent and be re-tried and found guilty of the same crime in another?

I’m not defending Robert Blake here. I’m asking the question, “Isn’t this trying the same man twice for the same crime?”

The U.S. Constitution forbids it. So, how is it that we are doing this now?

via BBC News…

A Los Angeles court has upheld a verdict finding actor Robert Blake liable for his wife’s death - but halved his $30m (£15m) damages.

The court rejected his claim that the jury had conducted itself wrongly by discussing the Michael Jackson and OJ Simpson cases while deliberating.

He was acquitted of murder following the death of Bonny Lee Bakley, who was shot outside a restaurant in 2001.

But he was found liable for her death in a civil case brought by her family.

Mr Blake, 74, maintained his innocence in both cases.

Is American society THAT stupid? They don’t understand the constitution and don’t see the clear violation of it?

Well, one trial is criminal court and the other is civil. So?

You’ve still tried him twice. That means 2 times. A clear violation of the U.S. Constitution.

I’ve never met a lawyer that has won this argument. Good luck.

…I’ve had to shut down two of my other websites and are in the process of getting this one up and running.

At least, this website will be a true representation of where my heart is…

…the geek world!

This website is a celebration of my “geekiness” if you will.

I am a 40 year computer programmer who started playing around with computers when they first came out.

I write code, programs, articles, and occasional a gripe or two thrown in for good measure.

Thank you for stopping by!