Cablevision Offers TiVo
CED Magazine reports that Cablevision has signed a deal to market TiVo equipment to DISH and DirecTV customers. Someone’s been reading my journal. “...
CED Magazine reports that Cablevision has signed a deal to market TiVo equipment to DISH and DirecTV customers. Someone’s been reading my journal. “...
There are two buyers running up prices in this market: the couple buying your house, and their mortgage company. Before approving the mortgage, the lender will ...
Mitch Wagner says, One thing that could get us back to the movies is, I think, the return of the movie palace. Make the theater into an architectural achievemen...
David Sucher asks, How are you personally dealing with the housing bubble? In fits and starts. Over the past three years we have planned an addition to our home...
Yesterday, like the rest of the Known Universe, I installed Google Talk. I already have a Google Mail account, and, being a fan of Jabber, wanted to see how wel...
Rebecca Blood notes that the RIAA now blames CD burning for their lackluster sales. Maybe they should sing along with Beck. I’m a loser, baby, so why don&...
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There is power in names. You probably know that Oracle is a company, and that they sell databases. (Well, strictly speaking, they sell a database management sys...
I’ve been thinking off-and-on, mostly off, about how to configure individual home directories on a WebDAV server. What’s necessary for individual We...
A reprint from The Washington Post in today’s business section reaffirms what Web browsers already know: we’re bored. “We know that 55 percent...
After selling out to Dell so that they could experience the same joys I did this morning, the Henrico County (Virginia) School District sold their collection of...
Microsoft: an expletive
The saying goes, that nobody ever got fired for buying IBM (or whomever happens to be the Big Kahuna this week). Maybe they should have been.
Microsoft Outlook is a sorry excuse for a mailer. And Windows is an impenetrable mess of spaghetti. In short: Microsoft sucks.
The Associated Press ran a story this morning on a gentleman from Texas who’s travelling to every Starbucks. The story helpfully contained a link to this ...
Via Tim Bray via Sam Ruby, the Copyright Office asks whether a public entity should even consider writing vendor-specific markup. At this point in the process o...
The Little Sister makes us laugh. Daddy, carry me. I can’t walk; my leg is bored.
Consumer Reports's ISP comparison smackdown
The New York Times reports that there may be some architectural issues with a proposed Apple store on lower Fifth Avenue. Plunked amid a phalanx of ornate build...
On June 3rd, Viacom, the owner of WCBS 101.1 FM in New York City, bought an iPod Shuffle, changed that station’s format, and fired all the disc jockeys. W...