Maszman Speaks!

Well all righty then! The 2002 Blog­gies are out. Check out the qual­ity blogs (unlike this one) in the var­i­ous categories.

I use a bunch of Instant Mes­sag­ing (IM) ser­vices, though I’m not one to con­tact folks out of the blue. Recently, there was a vul­ner­a­bil­ity dis­cov­ered in the AOL Instant Mes­sen­ger (AIM) for Win­dows users and I switched over to Tril­lian, a client from Cerulean Stu­dios, which com­bines AIM with ICQ, Yahoo!, and oth­ers into one client. This was great, until this week, when AOL began actively block­ing Tril­lian users. Cerulean has issued a num­ber of new ver­sions to over­come this. It’s been back and forth all week so far. Stupid.

Motorola is pro­mot­ing their idea of a safer mobile phone use for dri­vers.

Here in NY, use of a phone while dri­ving is ille­gal, and I use a hands-free speak­er­phone with my Motorola Star-Tac. But Moto also offers a Bluetooth-based unit that relieves you from hav­ing to plug any­thing in, just get in the car and it con­nects to your phone. That strikes me as the way to go, since every now and then I for­get to pull my phone off my belt and plug it in. Of course, very few phones have Blue­tooth, so this is hardly a uni­ver­sal solution.

Words you wouldn’t have expected to see together: “The Hit Bee Gee’s Musical.”

Words you would never have expected to see together: “The Hit Bee Gees Musical.”

Mea culpa. EPIC is an affil­i­ate of the Elec­tronic Fron­tier Foundation’s (EFF) Pri­vacy Now! campaign.