2008 April

RED BANK, N. J., April 16, 2008 — BigString Corporation (OTCBB: BSGC)
today unveiled a new self-destructing instant messaging technology that
enables users to send instant messages (IMs) that self-destruct after
being sent. Additionally, IMs sent via BigString’s service cannot be
copied, logged or screen-printed. BigString IM is a free advertising
supported service available at http://www.bigstring.com. It is
available as a [...]

P.A. Semi was founded in 2003 by veterans of a number of successful chip design projects, including DEC’s Alpha and StrongARM processor families. Correctly guessing that power use would become an increasingly significant factor due to rising energy prices and an increasingly mobile world, the company designed an impressively efficient chip, the PA6T-1682M. The dual-core [...]

I just downloaded a 1.5 MB .exe file from Microsoft to validate my many-times-validated copy of XP SP2, so that I could download a 524KB hotfix because the geniuses who programmed SP2 didn’t have enough imagination to consider that SD cards might someday hold more than 4GB.
And Microsoft thinks we ought to just roll over [...]