Archive for January, 2002

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

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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

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

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

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The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has sent a letter to all 50 US states requesting a probe of the Microsoft Passport personal information aggregation service. I have to say that I hadn’t head of EPIC before, but their site is chock-full of privacy information and it looks as though I’ve simply not been paying [...]

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It’s the second day of no email at work. See my rant over at the journal.

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The new Palm i705 is out. Nice, but nothing radically new. Look to Sony for the sexy stuff.

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Thirty five years ago Sunday, the crew of Apollo 1 died in a fire in their capsule during training. NASA has quite a bit of information on the tragedy and their response to it. And Slashdot, for once, has some fairly coherent commentary (may change by the time you read it).
I always get a [...]

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Nothing I feel like blogging today, so go read Doc or someone cool.

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I love geek watches. Here’s a watch I think I need to have. It tells you, via GPS, the location of the nearest four pubs and their distance. Now, if they can tell you if they serve Real Ale, it would be perfect