Please, Sir, May I Have Some More?
More bandwidth! I want more bandwidth! If I yell, can I get it? No? How about if I ask nicely? Lots of us have yelled AND asked nicely. And in a year or so, we might just be able to…
Facebook as a Hiring Network
Several times a year I have need of several extra bodies to complete time-sensitive work in my department. The work is tedious and mind-numbing, but important, and only lasts three to five weeks. Since we are a college campus, we…
Why Hotmail Survives
Todd likes to ask the question, “why is __________ still around?” He asked it last week about Hotmail. It’s not a huge mystery if you work in academics. Hotmail, in the form of “Windows Live” email, exists on a great…
Satellite on the Brink of…Something
Satellite Internet providers WildBlue and HughesNet have said they are both working to upgrade their speed and availability “over the next few years.” Really? Years? I realize it’s a major undertaking to shoot a satellite into orbit around our crowded…
Hot-Linking
Remember back in the day, when you’d find some cool picture on the ‘net, and you’d copy it’s URL and paste it in some website you ran, and then the person at the hosting site would get all mad and…
What Breaking Electronic Locks Means to the Blind
The Library of Congress, in a regular review of digital copyright laws, made a few adjustments last week. They declared that jailbreaking a device is perfectly legal, that breaking code on games is okay for certain purposes (to fix bugs,…
Firefox’s Tab Candy Extension
An Introduction to Firefox’s Tab Candy from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. I think I’m in love. This is exactly what I’ve needed for a very long time. I keep a lot of bookmarks, which are organized in folders, but I…