Maszman Speaks!

Maybe it’s me, but if I trav­eled with a $3 mil­lion vio­lin I’d have it chained to my wrist or something.

Mac.Ars takes on the iPod Mini. Yeah, it could prob­a­bly be cheaper.

Microsoft offers this help­ful arti­cle: Steps that you can take to help iden­tify and to help pro­tect your­self from decep­tive (spoofed) Web sites and mali­cious hyper­links. Of course, their own Inter­net Explorer is par­tially to blame since it obscures the actual link (Mozilla and Fire­bird dis­play the mali­cious link in the URL bar and Opera doesn’t allow the link at all). But we know they aren’t really sup­port­ing IE anymore.

[Update] It turns out that it is per­fectly legal to have URLs with user names in them, so IE tech­ni­cally is cor­rect. The Mozilla orga­ni­za­tion has been argu­ing over what to do for a while (and the next ver­sions will act more like Opera), since “fix­ing” it is effec­tively a spec vio­la­tion. IE users will have to wait and see what MS does and, more impor­tantly, install the patch when it’s made available.

Smarter than the CIA? The FBI uses Macs. There’s a rea­son for that, too.

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fans, Dis­ney is mak­ing the movie you may have been wait­ing for.

MSDN (of all places) has Get­ting Started with Your Own Soft­ware Com­pany by Eric Sink. Worth­while read­ing if you’ve ever thought about it.