From the archive

January 2004

119 posts

Editors Update

Just to let everyone know the news may be slow around here for a few days. I have family in town and being back to work and with the newborn in the house I am staying a very busy. I have some nuggets to post tonight but please be patient.

iPod Remote Control

I often plug my iPod into my Stereo and let it play on Random. Sometimes I do not like a particular song I wish I had the ability to forward 1 song without getting out of my chair. Well now there is a solution it is called NaviPod a Simple device that lets you go remote. [Review at EnvyNews] [Manufacture

Great commentary about Spirit on Mars

The Spirit landing from a bloggers perspective great commentary this is the kind of information that makes the blogging community so great. I must say that the landing of Spirit is a great accomplishment and is a testament to all of the smart people that made this happen. So we have 1 of 2 probes safely on the planet lets

Top 100 feeds, share your OPML!

I submitted my OPML feed tonight and was number 135 I submitted 399 feeds from my basic read list. This sites information is going to grow by leaps and bounds. This will prove what sites are being read the most via a aggreator. I personally love Newz Crawler it is fast and I have yet to find a better aggreator.

Sun open sources Cobalt Qube/Raq software

After removing the Qube from the production line last year, Sun has finally done something good and released the source code to the product. [Arstechnica]

Blog Security in the news

Thanks to the folks at Slashdot for the link. Apparently there have been a few successful hacks of Weblog accounts that have caused embarrassment and info being released to the general public that normally would have had restricted viewing. Makes me wonder why people would put information on the Internet that if exposed could affect their family, jobs, friends etc.

AOL Blocks 5 Billion Spams in 2003

I don't care who you are 5 Billion is a big number. Just think of the lost bandwidth deleting all of that crap. The numbers that I am blocking on my own sites with our WCSap solution is bad enough but man 5 Billion that's totally insane. [Yahoo]

XP Service Pack 2 Sneak Preview

Security Pipeline obtained a beta of XP SP2 and has a pretty good review of what it will contain. [CRN]

New Worms for the New Year

Seems there are a few new nasty worms making the rounds. What else is new but if you want the skinny on how it is replicating and what to watch out for get the details at [ZDNet]

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