Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Apple Speaks

Monday, August 7th, 2006

So, the WWDC convention in San Francisco today was interesting. Not quite what everyone was expecting, but it was interesting none the less. Apple announced new Mac Pro's and new X-Serves, as well as giving a preview of Leopard, aka Mac OS 10.5. I was following the keynote at ...

Graduation…

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. ~ Robert Orben I can't wait. I feel kinda dirty now though, I just linked to the SMCM webpage...

Government Security

Monday, April 10th, 2006

Ok, so I did this last year.  Took the annual sudo federal government security audit (pdf) and looked at it. And, suprise suprise, the results were quite similar. 8 Government Departments recieved a failing grade.  That's 1/3 of the government. Those that failed included: The Department of Energy, The Department of State, The ...

Uganda

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Here's a CNN story on just one of the many horrors happening in Uganda. Why isn't this getting national attention? Why isn't there public outrage? Probably because people don't care. They didn't care about Rwanda, they don't care about the Congo. Why would they? It's just ...

Firefox 1.5

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Mozilla released Firefox 1.5 today. A whole slew of new features, more natural looking GUI, major speed improvements for the Macintosh build, and no nasty security holes. If you're not using Firefox... you should be. There is absolutely no reason not to. It's a heck of a lot ...