Helen Thomas is the journalistic equivalent to the crazy old aunt who haunts your family’s holiday celebrations. Nobody likes her, yet she still gets invited every year just because you’ve always invited her. She shows up, and then proceeds to annoy and anger everyone in the room with every word out of her mouth, all [...]

To: Bill Gates, Cheif Software Architect
Microsoft Corporation
From: Nick
RE: Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007
Congratulations on the release of the new operating system. I have been running it through the ringer for almost a month now at my job to see if everything we use will work, [...]

The Mozilla folks have released version 2.0 of their award-winning web browser.
If you use Firefox, you want this upgrade. Many new features and faster performance make this the best release yet. Also, it now includes a built-in spell checker. Perfect for people who blog.
If you’ve never tried Firefox, now is the time. Although newest version [...]

Still working on the two new call centers at work. Programming telephone systems can be fun, but it is a lot of work the way we are setting these places up. Will be working on these two centers for another week and a half at least.
Will somebody please tell North Korea that unless they become [...]

It looks like the Bush Administration has made another in a long line of second-term bone-headed moves:
Newly released e-mails allege U.S. government officials pressured a leading Internet authority into voting against creating a kind of red-light district for adult Web sites.
The apparent involvement of the U.S. Department of Commerce, President Bush’s chief political operative Karl [...]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) rejected a proposal to create a “.xxx” top level domain for pornography web sites:
NEW YORK - Faced with opposition from conservative groups and some pornography Web sites, the Internet’s key oversight agency voted Wednesday to reject a proposal to create a red-light district on the Internet.
The [...]

This is going to be a post which will be interesting only to fellow techno-geeks. So, I have placed most of it below the fold. If you aren’t a geek, feel free to pass this post up.

The United States will retain control over the Domain Naming System of the Internet, according to an agreement reached at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society:
TUNIS, Tunisia (Reuters)—The United States will keep control of the domain-name system that guides online traffic under an agreement on Wednesday seen as a setback to efforts [...]

Several countries are trying to have the governance of the Internet turned over to the United Nations, or an organization based upon the U.N.:
Since the latest round of talks began Sunday, the specific wording of the summit’s draft declaration has evolved from “international management of the Internet,” written by Pakistan, to far less specific language.
“We’re [...]

Do you really think that your computer does nothing at night when you’re asleep? Go here to get the lowdown on what is really going on.

I thought that I would score higher.

Back in June, I blogged about the implementation of the “.XXX” domain names for adult-oriented websites. Well, it seems that there will be a delay before they start to be assigned:
The Bush administration is objecting to the creation of a .xxx domain, saying it has concerns about a virtual red-light district reserved exclusively for Internet [...]

It seems that the folks who run the Internet have finally caught up with an idea I first came up with a few years back:
The Internet’s primary oversight body approved a plan Wednesday to create a virtual red-light district, setting the stage for pornographic Web sites to use new addresses ending in “xxx.”
The Internet Corporation [...]

I recently had to install QuickTime to play some content from a blog I was visiting. When I went to the Apple download site to get it, I discovered that in order to get QuickTime, you also had to download iTunes. No problem, I thought, when I do the install, I’ll choose custom and then [...]

As of yesterday, I am now doing my posting remotely from a stand-alone application instead of through the Movable Type web interface. The software I’m using is called MovablePoster, and it is written by Matt Berther.
For me, it will be easier to post this way because of the way I work. It allows me to [...]