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A racially offensive photo of First Lady Michelle Obama recently appeared as a top search result under Google Images, leading to a handful of complaints by Google users and requests to remove the image from the search results altogether. Of course Google did not remove the image, and reminded users that sometimes offensive images appeared in search results. Their exact
Britain has some of the most draconian security laws of the "free" world. Many of these laws are brought in under the guise of fighting terrorism and paedophiles (which are always guaranteed vote winners) and of course, if you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to worry about. Unless you're an schizophrenic amateur scientist with a distrust of the authorities and you
Earlier this week I attended a seminar on “Emerging Healthcare Technologies”, presented by the University of Ulster. The content was fairly high-level but focussed on several areas that are in various stages of development but will reach the market in the next few years. The first area was that of providing easy-to-use self monitoring devices, often with local data storage
The march is on for CES 2010, hotels booked, airline reservations made and rough schedule laid out. We will have a record number of people in Vegas this year to cover all of the big and small events. We are currently confirmed for Show Stoppers, CES Unveiled, CES and a variety of 1 on 1 meetings and smaller events. At
In my work with students with disabilities, I run into unique situations every day where technology, a super-highway for most students, becomes a roadblock for others. There is a general assumption by book publishers, instructors and professors, and software developers that if information is made or made available in a digital form, then it will meet the needs of all
A couple of updates, I sent a message to the makers of Notifications on Twitter about the Time Zone issue and they replied back with the solution, my browser had auto filled the password into the first block but not the confirmation block, simply clearing the password out of the first block solved the problem. They responded within a couple
I had lot's of fun on this show.. Pile of things to cover. I am headed to Texas next week so will be taking the show on the road. I will be doing a Thanksgiving evening show so if your full of Turkey and still awake, I will try and knock out a show earlier in the evening Hawaii time.
Before I got into blogging and podcasting, I ran a few internet forums. It was easy - setup a YABB (Yet Another Bulletin Board System) forum and let the minions have at. I had some pretty interesting forums in my day, and with it, a lot of controversy. Still, I kept things cleaned and tidy. Spammers were dealt with quickly
In the past month I have been getting out of my office and working remotely. Being I live in Hawaii sometimes working remote means working at the beach. Seriously I have needed to get out an among people a bit more, having the chance to get out of the office has been great. For several years now I have been
This past week, I attended and presented at a conference for Adaptive Technologists. This is my official geek-tech title. I work with people, primarily students, with disabilities, providing technical solutions to their accessibility needs. This is the premier conference for geeks like me, and I spend the entire week networking with others who do what I do. Usually our keynote
"There are businesses that want to make sure they keep making money by having cures that fix the last one, but not the next one." The above quote is from Dr. Fred Cohen, President of the California Sciences Institute, and inventor of the first ever computer virus over 26 years ago. He was speaking specifically about how virus prevention software
I have announced my tentative date for the 24hr Podcast, lots to cover between then and now. But as always it is my pleasure to do that 24hr show. Need to pick a charity for this year. Suggestions are welcome. Production of the video portion of the show is really improving, have a few more things to work out but
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