I’m not really much of a hacker when it comes down to it but I’ve been fooling around with a lot more tools and possibilities since I got this 15″ MacBook Pro at work. I run Parallels Desktop and Windows XP most of the day so I have access to Visual Studio development tools, SQL [...]
When I was 12 I’d already determined that I was a big nerd. And when a big nerd often flies cross country to visit family in California, he looks for the geekiest magazine he can find to pass the time. In 1993, that was quite clearly Wired Magazine. One only needed to scan across the [...]
We’re back baby!! After an extended holiday hiatus, we’ve decided that teeming masses of SkaroffBlog readers must be satiated with their (semi)daily dispatch of piss and vinegar. Yes, the last month has probably been hard for you dear reader, but despair not, as we have resumed our regular program, already in progress… So quickly, some [...]
The world’s largest encyclopedia, and one of my favorite online resources, Wikipedia, has been in the news a lot recently. The first issue of note was the recent edit war over the Swiftboating entry with bloggers on both the left and right side of the aisle unleashing their readers on the page. Next came an [...]
Reading Memeorandum this morning, I’m surprised to see no mention of the newly unveiled (and still quite beta) Rhapsody.com service. I’ve raved about Real’s Rhapsody service for a while now, so it’s great to see them taking at least tentative steps to broaden their platform and widen their appeal with this new web based approach: [...]
The plan to turn Philadelphia into what Mayor Street calls “the first completely wireless city in the country” is moving ahead, but with possible delays. Back on Oct. 3, Dianah Neff, the city’s Chief Information Officer, announced an agreement with Earthlink under which the ISP would finance and build a city-wide Wi-Fi broadband network for [...]
Unfortunately I’ve been unable to find a full article out there besides the one behind the WSJ subscription wall, but apparently the Journal is reporting that about a year ago the Microsoft developers threw out all the code that had been written for MS’s next generation operating system, Vista, aka Longhorn, and started from scratch. [...]
I’ll admit it. I love my Powerbook. I love my iPod. I’ve got lots of other computers and electronic devices that I really enjoy using as well, but there is something about Apple’s products that brings out another level of joy and yes, techno-lust. Yeah, a Dell laptop or a Creative Zen may do the [...]
I thought I wanted an iPod Nano before, but with the addition of the iWood case, my technolust has reached a new boiling point. I also saw someone using one of these in person for the first time the other day (first though: what the hell is that? I’ve never seen a cell phone THAT [...]
To follow up on my open source posting, Boing Boing reports that FEMA’s website, and specifically the assistance registration pages, can only be viewed using Internet Explorer 6.0. FEMA’s website for disaster registration requires: “In order to use this site, you must have JavaScript Enabled and Internet Explorer version 6. Download it from Microsoft or [...]
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