July 2007

The main Pyzor server seems to have been down for a couple months now (no wonder my spam load was so high!). Even if you… Read More »Check Your Pyzors

John Dvorak is using a Mac and recommending them to his friends. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies, rivers and seas boiling, forty… Read More »And Lo, Upon the Seventh Day, Dvorak Switched

I wrote a couple JavaScript calculators quite a while ago, but never got to linking them from anywhere, thus nobody can possibly find them. Warning:… Read More »A Couple Calculators

In Learning from Dave Winer, Joel Spolsky writes: The important thing to notice here is that Dave does not see blog comments as productive to… Read More »Learning from Joel Splosky’s Fallacy

Robert L. Mitchell of ComputerWorld seems to be lobbying hard against the sale of the Verizon wireplant in NNE to Fairpoint. His argument seems to… Read More »Fairpoint Scare-mongering

Google is throwing its wealth around to encourage the FCC to:” let customers download and use any software on the network let customers use any… Read More »Google to Buy 700MHz?

I’m interested in folks’ feedback on whether this is a good idea for dealing with spam. Or, rather validating legitimate e-mails such that they stand… Read More »Spam: Plan B?

I saw today that Norman Borlaug was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. You can read about who he is at those links so I won’t… Read More »Norman Borlaug receives Congressional Gold Medal

Sad news, friends – Polly had to be put down this morning. She’s been battling sudden-onset kidney disease for about six weeks and despite her… Read More »Polly Dog – 1996-2007

The Java team has finally come to grips with many of the major problems facing Java deployment (perhaps the millions of voices crying out in… Read More »Java Team Finally Gets It