I first read it on slashdot, but more mainstream media like cnn.com are now also reporting that Microsoft has applied for a patent on “Pay-As-You-Go” computing. At this point, it’s only a patent application, so the sky is not falling, yet. The idea seems pretty straightforward. Instead of having software installed on your computer in [...]
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Posts about software, the Internet, and computing general
RSS Feed Fixed
One of my readers (yes, I have readers!) remarked a week or two ago that my RSS feed was broken. So I took the opportunity to fix it, sort of. If you used to have an RSS feed to my site and it’s not working any more, then you should try re-subscribing. You should see [...]
Morgana, Bane of Ubuntu
About a year ago I switched to using Ubuntu Linux as my primary operating system. I like Ubuntu a lot, and I’ll probably write more about it later. There is, however, one oddity about Ubuntu, which I can’t explain. It seems to be incompatible with my cat Morgana. The first incident came within a couple [...]
Thoughts on the Boston Subway Hack
This happened while I was on vacation, so by now it is rather old news. That won’t stop me from sounding off about it, though. A couple of weeks ago, now, there was a national news story about a group of MIT students who “hacked the subway system” in Boston. Basically they took a hard [...]
Linking WordPress Pages to External Domains — my first technical triumph!
Yesterday I set up this blog. 1and1 provides an automatic blog installer — it’s kind of nifty — but being who I am, I played with that a bit and then went and set up WordPress.org manually. Mostly because I wanted to be able to “get under the hood,” as it were, and get my [...]