My articles for the weeks of June 1 and June 8
In the first half of June I covered OS X memory security issues, Joomla! author Barrie North, Facebook and the CPAL, a new book on choosing an open source CMS, and sessions from Open Web Vancouver 2009 (pirates, women, and business, oh my!)
If You Run Windows, Update before April 1
On April 1, some virus programmers want to make a fool out of Windows users by taking control of their computers enough to send email spam and scams to people all over the world. If you don't want to let that happen, be sure to do two things bef
Freelancer Job Sites
On Thursday March 12, 2009, the New York Times published an article about freelancers turning to the Web for work. The sites in particular they refer to are (why can't they put links in the online version of the articles, isn't that what the
Games: Moving Desktop Adoption
Vikas Gupta, CEO & President of Transgaming Technologies, makes an excellent case on why games need to be taken more seriously under Linux.
Canadian response to the CRIA (Canadian version of RIAA)
What does a Linux blog have to do with music, you ask?
Microsoft and the FAT Patent
I was asked to comment on Microsoft, its lovely patent on the FAT filesystem, and the implications for technologies such as Linux.
Templates for printer labels
Worldlabel.com has released a set of OpenOffice.org templates for free use, and even wants to have them integrated into the main OpenOffice.org suite. While they include an Avery label cross-reference chart, it would be cool if folks bought Worldlabe
Press Release: Forbes "Attack of the Blogs" Article Misleads Readers
In an open letter to Forbes Magazine editor-in-chief Steve Forbes, the Internet Press Guild (IPG) has spoken out against the use of fearmongering and character assassination in financial and technology reporting.
Article: "Video game industry needs to be more creative, says veteran developer"
This article touches on many of the points I've been mentioning in my series of notes from the WIGI conference:Video game industry needs to be more creative, says veteran developerI do think maybe the new, small side of the game market with mobile ga
Dang it, Dell
I was all happy to hear about Dell's new PC without a Microsoft OS and then they had to go and do this. Make up your minds, Dell. Are you in or are you out? Has anyone else tried buying one of these systems? Was it really this bad?
