Category Archives: Tech

Goodbye Leo

Posted on March 27 2004 by Mickey

      On Thursday, there was a story on Slashdot on how Comcast had announced it was buying TechTV. There were some who joked this was in reaction to Comcast’s failed attempt to buy Disney, but in fact Comcast … Continue reading →

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My Plan (Again)

Posted on March 21 2004 by Mickey

    I tried some experiments with my Maxtor drive and it looks like one of them might have worked. I tried reformatting the drive and this ended up with me recreating the partition too. I got a response from … Continue reading →

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My Plan Has Failed

Posted on March 17 2004 by Mickey

    To augment my PowerBook, I got a nice 250GB 7200rpm Maxtor OneTouch external hard drive. And to make the hard drive accessible to my IBM-PC I got a program called MacDrive, which is supposed to let Windows read … Continue reading →

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Laws and the Lawyers Who Law Them

Posted on March 10 2004 by Mickey

    C1*ALIS & LE*V1TRA is the ANTI-1mp0tence drug!: AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and EarthLink announced today that they have filed six lawsuits in four states against hundreds of the worst e-mail spammers. The news has been well covered over the … Continue reading →

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Diabulus ex Machina

Posted on March 5 2004 by Mickey

    I see people are still making fun of The Passion of the Christ composer John Debney. According to an interview paraphrased at MSNBC, “Debney claims that Satan’’s image kept appearing on his computer screen while he was trying … Continue reading →

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Musical Bookmarks

Posted on March 3 2004 by Mickey

    According to MaxFixIt, it’s possible to add bookmarks to your musical iPod files, same as with Audible’s audiobook files. I always liked how the audiobook files would remember exactly where you left off when you returned to them. … Continue reading →

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The Wild Bluescreen Yonder

Posted on February 26 2004 by Mickey

    What’s the scariest, most unnerving thing you can think of? Naked photos of me? A Bush second term?    How about this, the aerospace industry is contemplating pilot-less air travel!    I’m no engineer, nor a frequent traveler, … Continue reading →

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Poor Hollywood!  How Will They Ever Afford to Make Starsky & Hutch 2?

Posted on February 21 2004 by Mickey

    Stand by for (more) news! Judge Susan Illston of U.S. District Court in San Francisco has ruled 321 Studios must stop selling its DVDXCopy software within one week!    According to a Reuters article, “The Motion Picture Association, … Continue reading →

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Somebody messes with me, I’m gonna mess with him, and then chances are he’ll probably mess with me again…

Posted on February 19 2004 by Mickey

    Yeah, it’s just another countersuit against the RIAA’s lawsuits, but I just like the sound of this particular one. According to C|Net News: It’s probably not the first time that record company executives have been likened to Al … Continue reading →

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Naughty Bits

Posted on February 18 2004 by Mickey

    Good thing Mom’s not watching, because in this blog entry I link to a naughty site. Playboy.com is running a “girls gone wired” contest, where visitors can choose their favorite TechTV Babe. So they tell me. It’s not … Continue reading →

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