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Sips from the firehose
A site that attempts to render the internet down into one easy-to consume mental beverage.
Blurred view of the Kremlin
Back in Moscow again, and as usual, I asked for a non-smoking room with a decent view out the window. Unfortunately, I wound up in a smoking room with this view out through first a scuffed plastic sheet and then a green net. The net has been up since...
LG “Viewty” Phone: 5.1 Mpixels
Cellphone a good all-around tool for newspapersNow that newspapers are discovering that they can transform their reporters into multimedia content generators (read: the reporters can take pictures, audio and video), one of the real innovative ways of empowering them...
Does the Media Even Matter Anymore?
Has the proliferation of alternate media and conspiracy theories so eroded the public's trust in the media that the tipping point has been reached? That's an interesting question - and, oddly enough, it is someone from the Wall Street Journal's editorial page that is...
Vista SP1 Can’t Come Soon Enough
The box arrived from FedEx, so I'm sending out the $2800 paperweight today. And if that wasn't enough to aggravate me about the new technology platforms, now comes the news that Vista Service Pack 1 won't drop until 2008, instead of this fall, as was originally...
Vaio Update: Nope, Still Broken
...and after all that, I still get the same stinking error message. Is anyone else surprised by this? The damn thing just refuses to work right. It's not like I've strapped this to my chest as body armor and entered an Ultimate Fighting Tournament. I just tried...
The Sony Vaio (aka $2800 Paperweight) Blows Up Again
This lemon of a computer has cost me about three months now of lost productivity. It started about a week ago - the same damn error message I started getting back in May. "RAID Volume 0 Error. Back up your data immediately." After spending weeks...