So it seems the MySQL creator Monty Widenius has joined the "should Oracle buy Sun" fray. He doesn't care so much about the two companies as he does about the future of MySQL. He's riding the whole "keep the internet free" shtick.
However, here's my problem - if keeping MySQL free was such a major p…
I've probably mentioned this many times before, but the issue keeps raising it's ugly head over and over, and frankly it's beginning to annoy me.
The issue at hand is science and scientific conclusions. It seems that scientists have lost their way quite badly. Let me explain: a scientific theory sta…
I happened upon a YouTube video of a device which really fascinated me. The idea is that it's an SD card which you can pop into your digital camera just like a regular SD memory card, but this one has built-in WiFi, and presumably with a combination of software is able to upload images directly from…
When an Apple "poster boy" (Steve Demeter) comes out saying Apple's App Store is "kind of a crapshoot", then there's a fairly clear indication of something seriously wrong. I've maintained this all the time - Apple's rules are peculiar and are enforced inconsistently.
This is the "Windows Syndrome" …
Found an interesting new product from James Dyson which claims to be a "bladeless fan". The concept is interesting, and the R&D which has gone into the "ramp" (which helps "multiply" the airflow) is surely worth praise (4 years worth of work).
However, I have an issue with calling it a "bladeless fa…
I was reading an article in the October 2009 Reader's Digest about a young fellow named Michael Calce, a.k.a Mafiaboy, who (according to Reader's Digest) was the teen hacker who crashed Yahoo.
His actions are not being brought into question on this blog, nor the lack of moral back-bone which would h…
Since it became glaringly obvious that I could no longer rely on PayPerPost as a possible avenue for earning a little extra on the side from this blog, I thought I'd give another ad agency a try, this time "blogsvertise". Although they did accept my application, they said that my account was on "pro…
Much to my delight, I've discovered that Haiku (the open source BeOS clone) has gone into alpha stage. Why do I find this delightful? Well, I think having multiple OS's in the world not only offers choice, but stimulates inventiveness. Imagine if all we had was Windows, and absolutely no competition…
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