http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-maher-koran-un-murders-sullivan-video-2011-4 “To react in such a violent way is not normal.”

Skype has lots of users, especially in the business world, but a lot of other folks seem to have strong opinions on it. Adverts, user interface design, bandwidth usage, privacy, the critiques seem to run the gamut. Seems to me its the only IM service with an official client that actually looks like a Windows [...]

Played with Unity, the new desktop shell in Ubuntu. It places a notification bar along the top of the screen from left to right, and an application dock / taskbar down the left side of the screen. Clever looking on first boot. Some thoughts: In almost all apps, the menu bar is hidden by default, but [...]

Ran across an offer for a Windows Phone the other day. $0 on a contract extension. Since I have multiple cell lines one of which was recently extended, to me it amounted to a virtually free phone. After an hour of quick research I had decided. Right now: No Windows Phone currently has a front [...]

Microsoft Lync Launch – The Next Generation of Unified Communications Recently Microsoft launched their latest unified messaging system – the successor of Office Communicator 2007, it features full telephony via SIP and instant messaging via Jabber/XMPP, making it capable of communicating/federating with a large number of existing open systems. The really dishy part? It comes [...]

With the introduction of Amazon EC2 micro instances I’ve decided to move my personal server from Burst.NET into an EC2 instance. Huzzah! Amazon provides a rather interesting service with EC2, giving an account holder the ability to spawn numerous virtual machines on demand for experimentation, deployment and migration purposes. Impressed!

A good talk by Eben Moglen on the implications things like Facebook have on our privacy and personal security. Particularly interesting This speech was made before Facebook newly updated its privacy policies and extended its reach to sharing your personal information with almost every major media outlet online. Worth a watch – skip ahead to [...]

As part of my ongoing exploration and mastery of the Windows command-line, here’s a tip on how to change motherboards without having to reinstall or repair Windows. This article is for advanced users only, and will render your computer unbootable if you do it wrong. You get one shot at this. The fate of the [...]

Among Linux distributions, Ubuntu is the undisputedly most well-known for its user-friendliness (with a tip of the hat to Fedora, though Red Hat aren’t spending as much time advertising it as Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, does). In most cases when I’m not being a gearhead with Gentoo, and want to use Linux as a sensible [...]

Found this on Google code while working to convert 400+ HTML files as saved by Mozilla Firefox. Firefox creates an HTML file and an associated directory containing the stylesheets, images and other content, so it was easy enough to run this against all the HTML files and get a good rendering of all the items [...]