Paul Allen, one of the Microsoft co-founders, turns out to have more up his sleeve than the X Prize, although it’s related to it. He loves restoring old war planes. I’m not talking about painting them up so they can be placed in a museum, I’m talking about getting them up in the air! Just [...]
» Go to this postRuth Fowler wrote a great explainer on Wired’s Start blog to help clueless blog writers in it for the fame figure out why they’re not getting their 15 minutes yet. Warning: heavy sarcasm ahead… but funny as heck… media whoring indeed!
» Go to this postYou may or may not have heard about the serious gaffe on the part of Senator Ted Stevens (R), who is Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. He voted against the Net Neutrality Act, and gave a speech on the Senate floor to explain his actions. He may have been better [...]
» Go to this postHold the presses, because I’ve just stumbled onto an amazing DSLR. I used to think 22-megapixels was really something, but this puppy cooks up 39-megapixels! It records in RAW format, and the photos are so big that it comes with an external 80GB hard drive. You can even connect it directly to your Mac or [...]
» Go to this postAs detailed in my last post, I’ve been scouring the market looking for laptop deals, and I found two that were really good. After I compared the specs for these two laptops with similarly equipped laptops, I found them to be hundreds below comparable models, and on top of that, well-made - at least when [...]
» Go to this post Updated 3/7/08: My opinion has changed quite a bit since I wrote this post. I am now going to get a 15″ MacBook Pro after working on a Windows laptop for the past two years. Feel free to read this further though, because it shows how far things have come since then.
I’ve been [...]
I’ve just been alerted to the following social engineering scam, which checks out true according to the FBI and Snopes. Here are the details:
In this con, someone calls pretending to be a court official who says a warrant has been issued for your arrest because you didn’t show up for jury duty. The caller claims [...]
Java I/O discusses in great detail a subject that is, in many ways, the bread and butter of Java: input and output. Given the expanded capabilities introduced with Java 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6, this book’s attention to them is timely and on target.
Here are some techniques that the book teaches:
Reading and writing files
Communicating over network [...]
Aesthetically speaking, this book is beautiful - inside and out - which is as it should be, since it deals with the art of photography. The covers are glossy and beautifully designed, the title font choice reminiscent of a DSLR viewfinder. The next thing that one notices is the detailed Table of Contents. A good [...]
» Go to this postJust took this thing, and found out I’m Qui-Gon Jinn. Okay, interesting. I should mention I haven’t seen any of the newer Star Wars movies. Oh wait, I did see the first one the came out, I think. It was so long ago…
» Go to this postLately, I’ve been getting more and more comment spam on my sites - here at ComeAcross, at Dignoscentia, and at my personal site as well. I’ve come to appreciate the value of having a system like Akismet that works so well together with WordPress. Gosh, I love Akismet! It’s been a lifesaver for me. It’s [...]
» Go to this postInfoWorld has published a special report that gives a succint and well-written overview of virtualization software, and is a must-read for those working in IT - if only to get an inkling of where virtualization currently stands. The report is entitled Virtualization Breaks Out and is available here.
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