Sunday, May 23, 2004

Feds subpoena Tim Russert, Time reporter [Salon.com] 10:47:48 PM    comment []

Internet Companies Turn to Games of Skill. Forbidden to offer online games of chance, American companies turn to games of skill, and find a market. By Bob Tedeschi. [New York Times: Technology] 10:47:42 PM    comment []

Peter Biddle's NGSCB/Palladium Update from WinHEC (PowerPoint) shows how Microsoft's thinking on trusted computing has evolved in the last year. [Hack the Planet] 8:23:58 PM    comment []

Free (as in beer) alternatives to Microsoft Word. I left the house today to work on my novel for the first time in four months. Only now I realize I don't have Office installed yet on my machine, and my book is in Microsoft Word format. Inmyroom to the rescue: Free (as in beer) alternatives to Microsoft Word. I downloaded Abiword and loaded my novel off my keychain drive. None of this would have worked if I hadn't gotten a very cool gizmo for Mother's Day: a JumpDrive USB flash drive. This is a strip of flash memory in a tiny plastic casing and a ring for clipping it onto your keyring. It amazes me that I can fit my entire website and my whole 60,000 word manuscript on something that I can carry around on my keyring and still have plenty of room to spare. [Learning the Lessons of Nixon] 2:48:03 PM    comment []

SUNDAY COMICS [Begging To Differ] 9:11:06 AM    comment []

Great post about kayaking on A rainy day off of Joppa Flats over at Learning the Lessons of Nixon. 9:09:55 AM    comment []