floor9.com

Today’s entry is a blatant ripoff from SomethingAwful (warning: SomethingAwful is not safe for work, generally offensive, rather immature, and occasionally funny).
Yesterday, I talked about how news dissemination has changed dramatically in recent years. Blogs are supplementing — and in some cases out-gunning — print media in ways that print media simply can [...]

I spent most of yesterday afternoon giving the lightshow at Dragonfly its semi-annual heavy-duty cleaning. You wouldn’t believe the kind of crap that gets inside these things, and without regular cleaning they tend to either malfunction badly or stop working entirely. Read on for the details.

As an avid music fan and member of the digital music revolution (both as an iTunes user & owner of internet base radio station), I firmly believe that the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) has the right to protect its member’s material. They have been, at times, a bit extreme. Suing end-users of services such as Napster & Kazaa is just a ridiculous waste of time and the money they’re trying to protect.

Yesterday (Monday 6/19) for about ten hours starting at 7:30am, the domain floor9.com was offline due to a denial-of-service attack on the domain. My hosting company did their best to mitigate the attack, but the site was down for about 9 of the 10 hours. I can’t imagine who was responsible (though I [...]

EDIT April 2008:  Since the date of this post, most of the “free stuff” websites have substantially changed the terms under which you can claim a reward.  These prizes are now pretty hard to come by; often, simply canceling an offer will disqualify you from winning.  I no longer recommend trying this stuff unless you [...]

CNN today picked up a story that every other news agency has been running for a while now: Making easy-to-use wireless phones is tough. I beg to differ.

I managed to forget to post this.  My trusty iBook is listed for sale on eBay here.  It’s a great opportunity to get an iBook at a bargain-basement price.  And while you’re there, feel free to laugh at my leet HTML auction skills.