Archive for December, 2008

Oh spammer, please go away

Dear Spammer, Your 40 to 50 spam messages you are leaving each day are growing annoying. Please note, all comments are checked by me and do not get posted to the board unless I let them, so you are wasting your time. None of your comments have ever been posted and none of them ever [...]

Maybe the RIAA is finally getting it

Does the RIAA finally get it? They aren’t going to sue people for file sharing anymore. This is a subject I have posted about from time to time. Not just the RIAA, but also the MPAA, and book publishers as well. I have always been of the mind that people who own copyrighted material have [...]

Netbook/game console analogy

This may be out in left field, but there has been discussion recently about whether Netbooks are good enough or not. Whether they will make it, or be a fleeting blip on the technology radar, all but forgotten in a year or two. What is their appeal? This morning I was reading through some news [...]

Recovering a corrupt Open Office odt document

I was working in Open Office the other day when I did something that caused my whole system to crash. It didn’t have anything to do with Open Office, I just happened to have a document open in Open Office when it happened. When I next opened Open Office, it warned me there were some [...]