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Month: July 2005

Names, Again

In an interesting turn, I was googling around about FireFly (because of one of the comments on Scott’s site, actually) but kept coming across refences to Serenity instead. This resulted in more than just a bit of confusion on my part, not being a FireFly fan or having any clue what was going on. Dori […]

What’s In A Name?

Oh Crikey. In December ’02 Scott Hanselman realized that MSN Messenger 5.0 wasn’t an upgrade to Windows Messenger 4.7. No, it was a different product that did mostly the same thing. Was Microsoft changing the name and bringing out a new, improved product? No, they now had two instant messaging clients. Now he finds that […]

Johnson on Video Games

“What is the current reigning technological paradigm — combined with both market and public-sector forces — doing to our minds?” Steven Johnson, who I heard interviewed on the radio this afternoon, tackles that in a book that I’m very much looking forward to reading: Everything Bad Is Good for You. I wrote a paper back […]

Drive Safely

Sept ’03: “I’ve never seen Microsoft send patches out to everyone via e-mail… learn more about how you can help protect your computer.” Mitch Tulloch: Is This Security Alert Really from Microsoft? Of course, not every email that arrives in your inbox and purports to be from Microsoft is actually from Microsoft. The bottom line […]

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