Revisitation of the Browser Wars?

The recent release of the latest incarnation of Mozilla – dubbed FireFox – is making quite a stir; the open source developer team even appeared on the cover of Wired this month, generating a buzz amongst geeks to the heralded Browser Wars of the ninties. It’s going to happen again, some say, as FireFox downloads [...]

Anti-Spyware… Isn’t.

Microsoft just released a beta application for Windows to locate, disable, and eliminate spyware. The application is beta so I wasn’t expecting a great deal. I was impressed, though, with its integration with Windows’s update, clean and simple UI, advanced tools for browsing helper objects and resident programs, and, its TSR agents, designed to monitor [...]

Downtown Blogging

I am sitting in a Starbucks in downtown Portland and using my Palm 3x to compose this message. I am waiting for a collegue of mine to discuss an upcoming course I’ll be teaching. To pass time, I recall why I hated using this stylus and the reason why I left the daily workplace some [...]