This morning I decided to catch up on some news articles (Wired, C|Net, and Slashdot, the nerdy trinity) and was again angered by the examples of corporate greed and complete disregard for us, the people (you know, the ones with the money), in their strategies.
First was news regarding the future of computers. TCPA (or ‘Trusted [...]
Tonight our friends Mike & Becky invited us out to their neck ‘o the woods for dinner and beers at the Main Street Ale House in Gresham. While Gresham may not be the hub of saturday night life, the beers at this spot are pretty darned good. I tried a couple of their beers including [...]
The Mash Tun (local brewpub on Alberta) has their first couple batches flowing (finally)! The fist batch is what they describe as an English-style IPA, and the second is a pale ale. Both are quite good, though the ‘IPA’ (I would almost describe it as an ESB) is really quite good. The pale ale is [...]
Just a quick post to ask a question… does anybody else find it wrong that Microsoft is going to start selling anti-virus software for $49.99 a year? Software that wouldn’t be necessary if their operating system was more secure to begin with? It makes me wonder why Microsoft would care to secure Windows in the [...]
Had a pretty fun evening. I was invited to the Jive Software 5 year anniversary party, held at Holocene, a rather swanky spot in SE Portland. Fun gathering, they had the place to themselves until 9pm, after which had their own private room. At 9pm a DJ showed up spinning 80’s records (though, gotta admit, [...]
So some joker is trying to sue Apple over the possibility of hearing loss due to the iPod. I emphasized possibility because he isn’t claiming he suffered hearing loss himself from using an iPod. He’s simply claiming that the decible level is such that one could suffer hearing loss, and thus the iPod is a [...]
