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Using Facebook to launch a Botnet army

Published 6 September 8 1:7 PM | William

Wired has a piece talking about how easy this would be to do. It's not entirely speculative since researchers built such a beast. I think the hype is a bit much though. The argument they make could be made for any mechanism that can get people to...

Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Security, Privacy

Utter Coolness compliments of Roku

Published 3 July 8 4:1 PM | William

My first Roku Soundbridge joined the family back in 2005. As far as wireless media players go, it was a bit pricey. But it looked really cool and I got it through a special offer making it a lot more reasonable. The form factor and styling was the main...

Filed under: News, Roku, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Open Source

Rootkits anyone?

Published 3 September 7 6:13 PM | William

Since I was a youngster, I've always been a fan of Sony stuff. I'm old enough to have spent a few years alive before CD's came out. I was still a little guy when I got my first Sony Portable CD player. Even though there were only a few CDs...

Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Dumbest lawsuit Microsoft ever faced

Published 4 March 7 2:5 AM | William

This is a big claim on my part, but if this isn't the dumbest lawsuit Microsoft has ever faced , it's got to be a contender. In the lawsuit, Crooker argues that Internet Explorer was set to delete his browsing history after five days, but the software...

Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Famous Last Words

Published 7 February 7 12:32 AM | William

I have very little to goof on Bill Gates about, but he's being Mighty brave with challenges like this . On the one hand, I really admire his approach and smack talking. "We made it way harder for guys to do exploits," said Mr. Gates. "The number [of exploits...

Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Uniden WIN1200 - Windows Live enabled Cordless Phone

Published 3 February 7 3:39 AM | William

I got a few new gadgets recently and have been meaning to blog about them b/c all in all, I highly recommend them. The first of these is the Uniden Win 1200 Windows Live Enabled 5800 mhz phone . I'm not a big IM User although recently, Ryan Olshan , Brian...

Filed under: News, Me, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Secure Mobile Environment, Pleomax, Gadgets, Windows Live Messenger, SME, Ceedo

Why the little things Matter

Published 25 January 7 11:51 PM | William

I've ranted over and over again about pieces of shameful incompetence I've come across over time. If you've been in the business more than a few months, you'll see things that make you say "I'm glad I don't do business with them." For instance, I was...

Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

MVP Chat Tonight at Strong Coders

Published 12 January 7 6:31 AM | William

My homie Ryan Olshan and the team at Strong Coders is hosting a public MVP Chat 01.12.07 8:00PM EDT . Although I'll be be a small fish in a big pond over there, Ryan was kind enough to invite me to join in Would love to see you over there.

Filed under: News, MVP Stuff, Me, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Why Technical People shouldn't design interfaces...

Published 9 June 6 4:24 AM | William

Not too long ago , I discussed the fact that programmers are pretty much the last people that should be developing interfaces. My point wasn't that developers are incapable of understanding good UI design concepts, it's just that for some reason or another...

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