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Scanning a large disk for virii takes a lot of time and resources, often in an impolite manner. Here’s a hypothetical question that the supergeniuses at t...
Scanning a large disk for virii takes a lot of time and resources, often in an impolite manner. Here’s a hypothetical question that the supergeniuses at t...
Last Friday, Rick pointed me to a paper estimating the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. This is a very important question, and deserves respectful consi...
The House passed H.R. 418, the “REAL ID Act of 2005,” today, the thought being that if there’s no support for a national identification card, ...
Larry Felton Johnson has accepted the responsibility for pedestrian safety in East Atlanta. But I finally acknowledged what I’ve known for a long time, th...
You mean that there are other languages with other alphabets? And some of those look like ours? The horror! Homographs, or letters which look alike but arenR...
Here’s one. I’m certain you, Gentle Reader, can identify many another. Microsoft Outlook permits the recipient to edit mails received. This is easil...
Are Amtrak subsidies equivalent to the monies used to prevent the commercial airlines from going belly up after 9/11? If the government pays to maintain private...
maps.google.com is neat. I’ve got one big complaint, and then I’ll shut up. The URI in the address bar doesn’t change. Thanks for the “l...
Watching this Supernanny show, because it’s what’s on in between our finishing Monk from last Friday and turning the TV off, and she’s instruc...
A fair amount of a priori knowledge is needed to execute this, including knowledge of which PSTN end-point you are using to exit the IP network, so it may not b...
D took the draft plans in to the assessor to see what our grandiose ideas might cost us in property taxes. He estimated an additional $3,300 on top of what we...
Phoneboy notes that T-Mobile has a map that will show you how well they cover your location. This way you can confirm that, yes, they do know that you live in a...
Phil Windley pointed to this Baseline magazine article on “in-sourced” their information technology operations: “Why JP Morgan Chase Really Dr...
David Fletcher points out the Government Performance Project‘s report card. New York got a B-! That’s some curve!