Category Archives: Geek Stuff

All Your Datas Belong Us

Apple iCloud = They own you. Welcome to the Apple Silo: Apple is giving iCloud away for free, because locking up our content in the Apple cloud means we’ll buy more Apple devices. It’s Apple’s way of circling the wagons … Continue reading

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Talk About A Bad Idea

All this past week, stories have been popping up about how, soon, everyone will be using their phone to pay for purchases. What a fabulously lousy idea. I’m immediately reminded of the online scams that took place during the modem … Continue reading

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HAL 9000 Or HOLMES IV?

Via regular reader feeblemind comes this clip of the IBM-designed Watson on Jeopardy. It’s a very impressive display of computer programming from the short video available. Call it artificial artificial intelligence at this point. But the future is looming in … Continue reading

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iFootsteps

Oh dear. Apple’s iPhone and iPad are under assault from an Android. Or rather, from Android. Item: Android is now the top operating system for smart phones: In terms of market share, Android grew 615 percent from 2009 to take … Continue reading

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Critical Security Patches For Internet Explorer

Two workarounds are out for two very nasty flaws in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The fixes can be downloaded and installed from here and here (I installed them in that order). No kidding, folks, if you use IE at all, you … Continue reading

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My Son’s Dream Vacation

My youngest boy’s dream vacation spot – actually, where he would prefer to live. The museum site is here. Tweet

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Testing New Feature

I’ve added a Tweet button to the posts for Twitter users. UPDATE: Appears to be working on all posts I have looked at so far. Please let me know if it works properly for you. Tweet

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Screw Job

Apple is using weird screws to keep average “owners” (they are actually just renters) from opening or working on the devices they thought they purchased: Apple clearly doesn’t like people screwing around with its hardware. And the computer giant’s latest … Continue reading

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How Do You Know It Isn’t?

AllahPundit over at Hot Air wonders: Exit question: I’ve asked this before but I’m still mystified by it. If one of the two goals of Stuxnet was to hide its sabotage by making centrifuge operators believe that everything was running … Continue reading

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Site Maintenance Complete

I have finished slogging through the upgrades, including the dreaded new theme – which was easier than it has ever been. I deleted a bunch of dead links from the blogroll and cleaned up old stuff in the sidebar. Early … Continue reading

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Site Updates Completed

I have just finished upgrading to the latest version of WordPress. I also added SiteLock to the site to protect it – and my readers – from malware. The site tests clean and the SiteLock logo is now on the … Continue reading

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Site Updates

At some point tomorrow, I will probably be upgrading the site to the latest version of WordPress and will probably begin updating the theme, etc. (Depends on if the existing theme works or causes problems with the new updates and … Continue reading

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Denial Is Not A River In Egypt

But it appears to be a core value for Apple: On Friday Apple released a letter admitting the iPhone 4 has problems, but insisted they are due to a signal-strength formula that is “totally wrong” and not caused by the … Continue reading

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Site Work

No posting tonight. I’ve been trying to get some updates made to the site (been on the phone with the hosting company to resolve various issues.) Site is now running WordPress 2.9.2. Please leave a comment if you find anything … Continue reading

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Apple Segways

Well, they unveiled it. No USB. No Flash. No card slots. No unapproved apps or software. No Phone. No camera. Like iCare. Tweet

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