A Busy Person’s Guide to the Bush Press Conference

If you’re anything like me – and if you’re reading this blog, you’re probably at least something like me – you can’t stand to watch President Fuckchop speak for any length of time, but you still want to know what he said. Major dilemma. Fortunately for us, there are those who can tolerate such things, [...] [...]

Microsoft says, “Ditch the AV and firewall!”

I wish I were making this up, but check out this Microsoft Knowledge Base article. Specifically, read the “Resolution” section. Yeah. Let’s run Outlook without anti-virus software or a firewall. They can’t be serious, can they? Running ANY MS product without protection is like whoring around the docks; you will get infected with something nasty, [...] [...]

Abuse of Relays

– and no, I don’t mean open SMTP relays. The Baltimore City Paper has a scathing article on how a technology developed for the hearing-impaired has become a handy tool for scammers. Disgusting. [...]

The 2004 Wired Rave Awards

because all we need are more silly awards lists. The 2004 Wired Rave Awards are good, though – they cover most everything a geek could love, and do it in a rather humorous manner. [...]

Air America contributor-blog

You may have heard of Air America, the new liberal radio network (which unfortunately is not present in my neck’o’da’woods except by streaming audio). So far, said network’s best show appears to be The O’Franken Factor, Al Franken’s deliberate continuing jab at Bill O’Reilly. anyway. One of TOF’s best contributors so far appears to be [...] [...]