Archive for: December 2007

Before the electrical telegraph was invented, there was the optical telegraph. Optical telegraph were the “smoke signals” of their day, making it possible to communicate messages over a long distance.

According to …

If you celebrate Christmas, hope you got what you wanted, or at least what you needed. If you don’t celebrate, I hope you had a good time anyway. Was a pretty slow

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It almost seems anti-climatic for Netscape to finally say “we’re no longer supporting the Netscape web browser,” given that they’ve had their clocked cleaned by …

Earlier on I had posted an entry about looking for a new blogger for The Wired Home Weblog.  I have since deleted that blog post because it turns out they don’t actually need one–Ruth has one in the queue …

I know that fingerprints are not exactly foolproof methods of authentication because they are fairly easy to spoof. This video shows an example of how this can be done in order to fool the fingerprint scanner on many laptop …

While I am highly suspicious of one of the entries on this list, and I generally find these lists quite subjective in nature, I am quite happy that The VoIP Weblog, one of the blogs I write for Creative …

A while ago, I had replaced a Linksys WRT54G with a Netgear switch and a D-Link DWL-G730AP. One day last week, this router stopped being able to get on the WDS …

You know, the more I actually try and use my MacBook, the more I realize that my IBM/Lenovo laptops have been a heck of a lot more reliable hardware-wise.

I’ve had this first generation …

Rico Mossesgeld over at The Smart PDA points to a Roughly Drafted piece on how the iPhone is scaring the Symbian folks because in the Q3 results for North America, the …

I was catching up on my viewing of Heroes this evening when I noticed a rather obvious product placement for Sprint. The product placement doesn’t bother me so much, it’s the …