An interesting story I missed over the holiday season: Amazon and Wal-Mart were thumped by a DDoS attack the day before the day before Christmas. Talk about a Christmas rush.
Category: Pen & Links
A year into my work as a copy editor for the Appeal-Democrat, I started a technology blog for the newspaper. Among the accomplishments were covering both the 2009 and 2010 Macworld shows in San Francisco and liveblogging Apple’s final keynote address at the event in 2009.
While surfing through tech news with a head full of mucus, I thought I could find something to take my mind off the pounding pain of a sinus headache. Then I stumbled on Microsoft’s decision to end upgrade packages with Office 2010. It’s one of those decisions that seemed like a good idea if you […]
While people have been worried about Ponzi schemes and getting gypped out of their finances, there’s something bigger out there to worry about: Hackers. And not just for the people who are worried about their finances, there’s the actual alleged scammers getting gamed by Eastern European hackers like Robert Allen Stanford apparently did.
I’ve been down a hellish road that I don’t want anyone else to follow. I write this tale of caution to make sure of this. It all started simply enough a few weeks ago when I noticed an offer for a cheap downloadable version of Windows 7. Bear in mind I vetted the living daylights […]
It’s a small paper today so I’ll be focusing on one of my ongoing projects: Slashing the hell out of my bookmarks folder until it’s not bursting at the sames. Amazingly enough though, Safari 4 hasn’t given me any problems when it comes to opening 300 tabs at the same time. Granted they’re all news […]
I got a kick out of seeing a Microsoft executive touting his claim that Apple’s legal team insisted they pull down some of its laptop hunter ads because Apple dropped some of its prices. Why? Because I haven’t had a chance to enjoy tearing some poor argument to pieces in awhile. As the author of […]
Did you miss Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference this year and wish there was a way to watch hours upon hours of video for a fraction of the cost of actually attending the event? Well developers need not worry about missing anything if they’re willing to fork out a few hundred dollars. Apple has released the […]
Two massively flawed rulings are hopefully on their way to being remedied. First the MySpace Mom Lori Drew is free after her convictions for bullying a 13-year-old girl who eventually committed suicide were tossed. While her actions were horrific and reprehensible, the law was not applied properly in this case. They tried to use laws […]
As I mentioned previously, a chance for broadband to expand and grow in the Yuba-Sutter area may be on its way as the FCC is getting a plan together to dole out the funds. Who’s deciding where this money goes? It could be you. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, known the world over for […]
One of the single greatest sites/applications available will live to see another day at the end of a lengthy battle over royalties. Pandora radio is, as it says on its site, “a new kind of radio – stations that play only music you like.” You start with an artist you like and it’ll create a […]