Robert Accettura's
Fun With Wordage

Bad companies trying to bully their way legally to avoid detection is unacceptable. What next? Are virus makers going to start getting lawyers and tell Symantec, and other AntiVirus companies to stop scanning and blocking their viruses? Why not? The precident this sets is just bad.
IMHO Eliot Spitzer should [...]

Reading this article made me really chuckle. Just so happens, the Xbox is really a sister of the Mac Mini. We knew that for some time when they announced IBM was developing the processor for the new system, but it’s much more enjoyable seeing them use G5’s with OS X to emulate their [...]

There’s been a decent amount of press about Firefox marketshare recently; from the announcement of 50 Million (now approaching 55 Mil), to making some gains against IE. There’s also been some speculation of Firefox acceptance rates dropping as it saturates it potential market. I’m going on the record to say that’s not really [...]

This sounds like a rockin’ good time in Amsterdam (as if Amsterdam isn’t fun already). Ben Goodger, Robert O’Callahan, and Brian Ryner’s presentations in particular sound quite interseting. Hopefully they will at least post some slides from their presentation, if not an audio recording.

Got 2 copies of the Time Warner letter regarding Identity Theft, presumably one as a dependant, and the other as a former temp for a subsidiary.
So they will monitor for 12 months (complementary) for fraud. Now if the data is stolen, don’t you think the theves will wait 12 months before using the data? [...]

Looks like Apple and KHTML are going the way of Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt.
Perhaps Gecko would be a better long term solution than using WebCore? Yea this is rehashing some old wounds I’m sure, but it is something to think about. It makes Safari easier for web developers to target, since it’s [...]

Mozilla 1.0.4 is out. It contains some important security fixes (in case you have been living under a rock. Only a few days after they became public (a bit premature I might add).
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Well obviously this stuff has been in the news a lot in the past 48 hrs. It’s interesting that it appears nobody in the senate even read this thing or they would have noticed some mistakes. According to the bill everyone must have one with their real home address on it. No [...]

Congo the Chiimp’s Artwork to be auctioned.
Much better than lots of the stuff humans do.

Seems google.com is down. Who turned off the lights? I wonder what happened? Did Googlefox cause a power surge?
Update #1 [7:13 PM EST]: It’s DNS related as this still works.
Update #2 [7:15 PM EST]: Seems to be coming back now.
Update #3 [7:39 PM EST]: Engadget suggests a DNS Hack, perhaps poisoning, but [...]