2005 June

For a lot of people, dating in the workplace is a very important topic, indeed, it’s also one that I’ve been asked about a number of times in my various companies. While the logic is obvious — we spend more time at work than just about anywhere else, so where better to find a potential […]

Proving that even the bad guys can get ahead if they play by the rules. Now, if only the law allowed the courts to shut down adware makers, we could all breathe a sigh of relief. Such relief, I’m afraid, is not going to happen while ‘the current administration’ is in place.

Some time ago, reader Rick Markey insisted we share this tidbit about a technology that aims to turn pig manure into fuel. With oil going through the roof, we thought the info was timely.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, “Manure from 25 sewer lagoons at Circle Four will be piped into one of four concentrators […]

As the world discusses the upcoming MacTel, we thought this would be an interesting counterpoint.

Proving that sometimes the best gadgets do not need batteries comes this great space-saving Bottle Opener/Fridge Magnet.
Made of stainless steel with a non-scratch magnetic back. Now you won’t have to use your teeth when you can’t find the opener. Price: $33

I must be out of it, because when I saw pictures of this book-shaped media player, I thought it was cute in a geeky sort of retro old-fashioned way. Like for those wealthy older people who buy realistic looking $200 1940s radios that hold $15 CD players inside.
Turns out, one guy’s vision over at dapreview.net […]

This is Logitech’s top-of-the-line Webcam. It has the capability of taking still images at over 1 megapixel and video at 640×480 and a microphone positioned in the base, which is all right if there’s not a lot of background noise (it picks my typing up quite well, though).
It also rotates left and right and up […]

I have no problem with one country working to tighten the reigns on cybercrime just so long as it does not interfere with the day to day well being of those such a law affects.

Well, it was fun while it lasted. But it looks like another Windows version is coming to a close.

Dave, I’ve been working with Google’s Blogger service for a while, running a weblog, but looking at your site and various others makes me want to have everything appear on my own domain, not theirs. So, how do I do it? Lots of people I’ve talked to say that it’s not possible with Blogger, […]

There are a couple of videos available also. “In 2003 when the Columbia Space Shuttle disintegrated 40 miles above the earth killing the seven–member crew, people across the globe were stunned and devastated.
Two years on the world hasn’t forgotten that tragic February day.
But in a couple of weeks we are likely to witness what […]

Ohhh, this has to tick off Sony! Yup, even with the smack down put on the company selling PSPs in the UK, I believe that enough damage has been done already regardless.

It’s funny. People are alway whining about how Google is going to take over the world, and now we have them sharing amazing pictures of it instead!

I’ve talked before about the Board Café’s informative newsletter for non-profit Boards of Directors, particularly in the article entitled Non-Profit Board Self-Assessment Survey. The latest article on Executive Director pay is another keeper, particularly given the scandals surrounding the often incredibly inflated salaries of even the most benign non-profits. Indeed, before you donate to your […]

Yahoo! is trying a ‘more is better’ approach to opening a gap between itself and rival Google by offering a webmail service that works more like the kind usually found in a desktop setting. Then they will be giving away 2 GB of e-mail storage, as well. We’ll have to wait and see if these […]

AMD has decided to take the fight to The Big I. I don’t think there’s anyone in their right mind who would disagree that Intel has used predatory tactics to enforce its market position. No, the question here is whether AMD will get any further than the U.S. government did against Microsoft. At least this […]

Well, we knew that TiVo had been having a rough time beating back the competition, but we didn’t know it was quite this bad. Rogers is one of TiVo’s co-founders, so one shouldn’t take his ouster lightly.

Today the Supreme Court blew P2P file sharing networks out of the water by deciding that the network operators were responsible for the content being traded on their nets. Companies like Napster, who have successfully converted from P2P networks into other business models, are bound to be safe, but everyone else, including BitTorrent had best […]

A recent article by my friend Amy Gahran about The True Cost of Cowardly Management has left me thinking about the proper way to tell an employee that they’re on probation and, ultimately, to fire them.
While I haven’t fired hundreds of people (no, I’m not Donald Trump and no I don’t actually enjoy firing people) […]

AMD has released the FX-57 Athlon64 processor. It’s a single-core chip, which is a dying breed. The word has it that next year’s FX-59 will be the last single-core chip made by AMD, who is switching all future designs to a dual-core base.