I finally made the switch. After reading a Lifehacker article which included a poll showing the vast majority of readers use GMail over a desktop application, I decided to peruse the comments and try to figure out exactly why. One of the first comments that caught my eye was that you could in fact use [...]
Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
The Electronic Peeping Tom
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
A research team at a University in Germany recently demonstrated how they could break a common variant of WEP, a wireless encryption protocol, in two minutes or less. WEP has always been somewhat insecure, but I’ve personally used it for a few years now as I had a few devices (such as a Roku network [...]
When I was a kid, we actually had to pay for services
Monday, April 9th, 2007
Today, I read that Google just released yet another service: This time, it’s a free 411 service via a 1-800 number. Now I can’t remember the last time I actually called 411, but I’m pretty sure the main reason behind that is because of all the surcharges I remember getting the one time I did [...]
I’ll trade you my identity for a hamburger
Thursday, April 5th, 2007
The Boston Globe had an article today about students paying for their school lunches using their fingerprints. This is a great example of a subject that people love to hate, or hate to love. My initial reaction is a positive one: I find biometrics intriguing, and see them as being a great way of slowly [...]
Contact management
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
In my never-ending relentless search – no, make that crusade – for a sufficient content management system for our company, I have dealt with maybe fifteen different people from ten different companies. This, on top of all the other standard contacts I have (ISP relations, software and hardware companies, etc) means that I do a [...]
