Category: General

(via Reddit) If the case ends there, to all intents and purposes the notion of fair use would appear to apply to DVDs as well as CDs. The movie industry, which nowadays depends as much on DVD sales as on box-office receipts, still seems to think that making life difficult for its customers is a […]

Gotta stay on message: The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops’ online activities since the start of the Iraq war. And it […]

You may be wondering what the post title above means. This is the key to unlock every HD DVD on the planet. I don’t know about you but if I was going to make an industry standard video encryption format responsible for securing billions of dollars of intellectual property and entertainment, I’d be damned sure […]

Charlene over at Forrester released a report dividing various levels of involvement in technologies and social marketing. Just check out this graphic showing a ‘ladder of participation’: (via Steve)

I’ve always been attracted to creative artists that have powerful singular visions, an introspective process and a commitment to technical brilliance. That’s why I like Hitchcock, Bjork, Prince, Bertolt Brecht, theatre director Peter Brook and Trent Reznor, the mind behind the industrial music of Nine Inch Nails. If you’ve ever enjoyed the lacivious lyrics of […]

I’m not going to get into politics on my biz blog but it really really really pisses me off when organizations and companies and politicians release major new-making documents online… and only in PDF format. That really drives me absolutely batshit crazy. Take the whole extra 5 minutes in Word to do File > Save […]

I sat down with Tim Ferris, author of the new book The 4-Hour Workweek, to hear exactly what the heck that might mean for life, business and money… here’s the audio:   More Ferris-ness at Darren’s blog…

One of my favorite features in Thunderbird 2.0 is favorite folders. Instead of being confronted with a daunting list of folders, I can look at just a select few (for me, my 2 primary inboxes). Right-click on a folder, add it as a Favorite, then use the little switchees to move from All Folders to […]

Back when I was a big smarty-pants, I thought I’d have simple, elegant permalink urls in the form of: http://myblogdomain.com/post/1234 Where 1234 was the post number. This was my strategy for when I thought I have a plain-text only ezine and I didn’t want long URLS getting truncated by Evil MS Outlook. But then I […]

ROCK OUT WITH YOUR COOKIES OUT Sharon sent me cookies for my impending 32-ness.