While I don’t look to Maxim for advice on buying music, it seems hilarious that one of their writers slammed the upcoming Black Crowes’ release, giving it only ** 1/2 stars out of *****, without even hearing the full album.  That’s cold.  “The band posted an exasperated statement on its Web site last week, saying [...]

It’s amazing, with all the toy recalls this year, the Aquadots one just stands out since it apparently contians the same active ingrediate in the ‘date rape’ drug! And how could such a hazardous chemical have ended up in a child’s toy? Remember, it’s all about money… “The toys were supposed to use [...]

This is interesting, apparently to test out stolen credit card numbers, scamers are donating small amounts to charities to verify they have a working number on their hands. “In the world of carding, where stolen credit card information is bought and sold, carders need to know if the credit cards they are buying or [...]

It’s time for a new laptop, as I’ve detailed, I’ve ripped apart, inserted coins and duct-taped  the old iBook back together again enough times, and it’s no longer viable. It’ll work fine on a flat surface, but if you try to use it as a laptop the minor flexing must loosen the video chip, because you quickly [...]

As a IT contractor I’m enjoying giving my opinion when asked, and sometimes even when I’m not asked; I have the confidence to be open and honest with everyone and want them to know that. Because of this I’ve been getting to do things I otherwise would not have since they would not have known [...]

Defcon is almost here, and now I have a highlight planned for Saturday: AirTight Networks will be revealing a new varient of Evil Twin. Evil Twin has been known about longer that I was aware; basically it’s someone running a laptop in a wifi hotspot (like a coffee shop) that impersonates the hotspot’s access point [...]

In another scary move, Microsoft is behind a recent patent for an “advertising framework” that appears to be little more than an adware application on steriods. Coupled with another patent that aims to use “context data” from your hard drive to show you advertisements and “apportion and credit advertising revenue” to ad suppliers in [...]

Classic, nice to have this back as an option; you can now get Tux on a Visa card from linuxfund.org. If I wasn’t completely enamored with my ‘Working Assets’ card I’d grab one of these. Who knows, maybe sometime down the road I’ll get one, it’s for great causes of course, “Each time [...]

I’m planning on unloading some stuff on eBay, so I went out to do some research on current pricing of similar items.  I’ve always hated eBay’s UI, its search/results screen stinks, and anytime you do a search you get 100s of things that are hardly related (try doing a search for ‘ipod’).  Of course there [...]

I’m in no way endorsing AT&T, but I’m encouraged when I see a more ‘tiered’ approach from ISPs, and DSL for $10/month is a great choice for consumers. It seems that this tiered or ‘naked DSL’ is only being offered up by AT&T as part of the “…concessions made by AT&T to the Federal [...]

It’s rewarding when you work at a company that seems universally recognized as a great place to work. I’ve only found this out recently, since my current employer, Edward Jones, always makes the ‘best of’ lists. Today it was ranked on Computerworld’s list of 100 Best Places to Work in IT at number [...]

I’m a big fan of Working Assets, and lately they sent out an email with five suggestion how you can help to stop global warming. Yes, the last suggestion is to get their credit card (I have had one for years now), but look at the benefits you get from theirs, versus what you’re [...]

I’ve been a Lala member since November 2006 (I wanted to wait awhile before I came out and recommended it) and it rocks.  (takes on a Dr. Cox voice) Look, here’s the deal, you create a profile, and then a list of cds you have that you are ready to trade, and then a list [...]

Microsoft is set to phase out Windows XP by the end of this year, even though the majority of businesses have no reason or desire to update to Vista, since most of those updates would require new hardware. It’s just another example of Microsoft not listening to their customers, just to their shareholders. [...]