Now that it’s become clear that Microsoft will be testing for pirated copies when Windows users attempt to update, maybe they’ll release the real statistics for piracy.
While I fully expect that the numbers will be fairly high, I think more telling would be to see the average numbers of programs in use. How many users [...]
It’s been a long weekend! So, here’s a wrap-up of what’s been going on.
Friday night was fun, as usual. Sci-Fi Friday always makes my night. We ended up staying up quite a bit later, as we were entering Duel Masters cards into a spreadsheet. With luck, I’ll be turning it into a database to keep [...]
It’s a sad day. As reported at the BBC and else, James Doohan, known to Star Trek fans everywhere as ‘Scotty’, died today at age 85.
For more on his career, biography, and so on, visit his fact sheet at IMDb.
Ok, this article over at the New York Times (registration required) cracks me up. (Kudos to Slashdot for posting this.) Apparently, rather than fix the machine (or God help them, reinstall it), people are actually dumping machines and getting new ones.
As pointed out, the average price spent is $129 to get them repaired. Considering that [...]
After an entire winter of listening to Christine mutter “damn cold state”, I’m now getting to put up with an extremely uncomfortable summer. According to the news reports, we typically only get about 15 days of 90+ degree days (that’s Fahrenheit, just over 32 centigrade). We’ve now hit about day 6 for July (which is [...]
