According to an item on Zdnet, IBM and several Linux OS’s are planning to take advantage of Vista’s failure. In a move that would have you and me reaching for the phone number to that team of Chicago personal injury lawyers, These guys are planning to dogpile Vista.
They’re planning to increase the number of [...]

China wants to have this image of being a modern country that actually cares about their people, believes in freedoms and all that. Thing is, we don’t see a lot of that.

With the retirement of Bill Gates (you know, the guy credited with saying that 640k was enough for anybody?) Well, it seems that one of his functions has been to try and keep the folks at Microsoft in step with reality. One of the ways was shown in an email he sent to [...]

I just read an interesting article about a guy that’s apparently come up with something that, if it’s for real, could be the first steps of independence from foreign oil. A variety of bacteria that’s been engineered so that it will eat agricultural waste and excrete fuel.
Oh, I am not a hamster, I had [...]

After years of people trying, Arkansas finally has the issue of a state lottery on the November ballot. For years now people in Arkansas have been going to neighboring states to buy lottery tickets. This is money that, if Arkansas had it’s own lottery, would not need to be leaving the state and [...]

I was looking at my Statcounter logs today and I noticed something interesting. Despite Microsoft’s long standing claim to superior numbers of people using it’s IE browsers, it’s no longer even close to being the number one browser in use anymore.
What made me decide to look was an article on xyberlog.com about how firefox’s [...]

It’s been a long time coming but the Supreme Court has actually decided in favor of the Constitution’s second amendment. The ink is hardly dry on the decision and there’s lawsuits springing up all over the place. Enough so that I doubt the lawyers will need to spend much on marketing pens & [...]

I have to admit, I’ve wanted to see something like this passed for years. I’m talking about the alleged “fashion trend” that developed sometime in the mid ’90’s where people wear pants low, really low, in fact they only come about halfway up the person’s backside and the rest of that picture is covered [...]