Biz Admin Who Loves Technology
» Apple QuickTime under siege | Ryan Naraine’s Zero Day | ZDNet.com
Calling Apple the next Microsoft due to the security vulnerabilities in QuickTime might be a bit much. QuickTime is used rather infrequently, at least by me. Certainly nowhere near as much as an average Windows user would use IE. This is not meant to minimize these weaknesses, but simply to put this in proportion.
I would never have guessed that I would sit and “watch” Baba O’Riley with my 4 year old son. However, my boy is huge Blue Man fan.
Ok, this is one of the strangest things I’ve seen in quite some time. These folks have made their own instruments…out of vegetables.
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: TV: Food Network
I know this marks me as somewhat less cultured, but I love this show,and am a bit jealous of Guy. This just sounds like a wonderful job, driving around the country and trying out, shall we say “all American fare”.
Huge wooden moose planned in Sweden
This just speaks to me in a Monty Python sort of voice. Despite all the misery and mayhem in the world, stories like this give me hope. I need to plan a trip to
Moose bites can be nasty!
I didn’t think it was possible for Evel to die. Considering all that he’s survived, it’s particularly stunning for him to be brought down by disease.
I remember those outlandish stunts, and the crazy costume, and being fascinated. All us boys were Evel Knievel lunging our BMX bikes over tires and Matchbox cars.
Godspeed, good sir
Microsoft Challenges the iPod (Again) – New York Times
I’m glad Microsoft is getting going in this space; it’ll serve to keep Apple honest and not take us for granted. Competition is good, blah, blah. Apple is (hopefully) not going to make the same mistake as they did in the desktop wars of the 80’s.
Sears Profits Obliterated – Forbes.com
A 99% profit plunge…OUCH! Retail may be haggard, but nobody’s this weak. One lesson I take from this is that you can only shore up profits with cost cuts for a limited time. There comes a point where you lose your ability to function. I think of all the lame, outdated (and damn depressing) Sears stores out there, and clueless sales staff, and am not at all surprised. I do hope they pull it together, for Sears is a venerable brand and it would be a loss for them to vanish.
Rather weird, and scary. However, I can’t imagine a cell phone battery having a strong enough chemical reaction to injure someone that severely. That would require quite a bit of force, and I don’t see how a standard battery could generate that. It would need to be an abrupt, rapid and fully contained reaction, and (again) I can’t imagine a commercially produced battery would have that capability. Odd…
Hidden crime of ‘wi-fi tapping’: only 11 arrests but most of us are guilty – Times Online
Well, one piece of the “is using someone else’s unsecured wireless internet account ethical” has been answered. In the UK (at least) it’s apparently illegal. Interesting…
Though I’ve always been adamant about locking down my account, I don’t see someone else surfing using my account a crime, per se, especially if the account is unencrypted. I can think of several times that my computer had logged onto a neighbor’s network without my knowledge (when my network had dropped, generally). And I think that viewpoint’s more prevalent. The analogy of leaving my front door open doesn’t really hold water. I’ve known several people over the years who are rather communal about their service, and are happy to let others use their access point. Perhaps the articles alarmist rhetoric about being held culpable for someone else’s downloading of illegal content will inspire more people to upgrade their network’s security. However, I think the apathy around this, and the ignorance, will still prevail. Perhaps producers of this technology should default to the highest security setting, and then force people to choose a lower setting?