Month: January 2007

  • The love affair continues

    If you even lightly press the “talk technology” button on Alex, you are more than likely going to get a lot of gushing from me about WordPress. Since I first found WordPress 2.0 in the early summer, I’ve been amazed at what I, last a developer 15 years ago, could do with this industrial-strength, multi-user…

  • Microsoft gets whacked up side the head, and I can’t help myself

    Wow! Is this Internet thing powerful or what? Over the Xmas holiday, a well-known security expert and professor in New Zealand named Peter Gutman wrote and posted on the ‘net a scathing critique of Windows Vista’s new DRM technology. Now, it’s nearly impossible for you to go anywhere on the ‘Net without seeing people podcast…

  • An Alito for the Wall Street Journal

    I am seriously bent out of shape by an editorial entitled “Franchise Freedom” that I read in the January 2, 2007 edition of the Wall Street Journal. I can’t link to the editorial here, because even the Journal’s red-meat-Republican opinions are locked behind a subscription site. (How very web-centric…how very authentic it makes me think…