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A Linux Geek Embraces Mac OSX

ExtremeTech“I've always wanted a Mac. There, I said it. I'm out of my Mac closet. I've secretly longed for one but could never really justify buying one. OS 9 and its predecessors held no real interest for me. But when OS X—really a version of Unix under the hood—came out, suddenly the idea of buying a Mac became all the

Microsoft Developing a Flying Car?

The Register No future is complete without a flying car, but it's the invention that like Longhorn, never arrives. However many readers write in with evidence from Microsoft Norway that such a vehicle may be in trial.

Blogging Inspires the Old Book

Publishers are starting to take interest in Bloggers and some are getting book deals [NYT Technology]

The network is the blog

 The dictionary definition of "blog" is correct, but it says nothing about the network in which the blog participates. By way of analogy, consider a dictionary definition of a telephone: "an instrument that converts voice and other sound signals into a form that can be transmitted to remote locations and that receives and reconverts waves into sound signals." That's fine

Comment spam load issue

Hi everyone, my name is Jay Allen and I am the Product Manager for Movable Type. I'm writing today to address—what else?—comment spam.

Podcasting mechanics. After I posted

Podcasting mechanics. After I posted yesterday's audio interview, Paul Schaeflein wrote to point out that I ought to be using RSS 2.0 enclosures in my feed so that enclosure-aware aggregators can download media objects. ... [Jon's Radio] [via Ted Ritzer: RSS]