Tag: Techcrap
-
The Dude survived the hordes of 78 year old Mac mini owners (??!!!) to get his grubby hands on Apple’s OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. Yup, not exactly a horde of sweaty geeks in line for this- instead tattooed punks, smiling grandparents, and about 40% female were the demographic of the day. Listening to a 73…
-
Hello, faithful readers, time for another exciting installment of Kind of an Esoteric Guy! When we last left our hero, the fearsome Green Wave had arrived, summoning the Neighbors-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named from the far reaches of non-Euclidean space-time (or the southwestern U.S., whichever is closer). No further updates on that front, but keep your fingers crossed… the…
-
On this rainy day, The Dude thought that he’d share some of the (less geeky) software he finds useful for those of his readers who use OS X (and you know who you are). First off, there is NetNewsWire (the Lite version is free), a RSS news reader. What is a RSS newsnreader? Well, you…
-
For those who enjoy waiting in line for flights as much as The Dude does, Privacy International has announced the 2006 Stupid Security Awards. Past winners include Delta Terminal at JFK Airport for forcing a nursing mother to drink her own breast milk in order to prove it was what she said it was, and…
-
Just a quick post– a little more action today in the NSA lawsuit, slowly working it’s way up to SCOTUS. The EFF lawsuit is still moving along as well… very interesting stuff. No Quatloos this time, since it’s an out of schedule post– the title is from the ‘song’ “Tae Kwon Leap” by the Frantics.…
-
Where to start? Don’t know if it’s the cold virus, or if the collective Universe just decided that today would be a good day to mess with The Dude, but prepare for a second rant in two weeks, this one on the evil that is the… let’s hold off on naming names just yet. In…