Technology
Windows 7 to play nice with all decoders
One of the biggest complaint that Windows users have had when it comes to dealing with video media files is the insane requirement to download all the other codeces that one needs to watch non-Windows formats. In many cases this lead people to download the first codec package that they could find with a Google [...]
Green Tech
Electric cars are green and cute but pointless
So everyone these days is jumping on the electric vehicle bandwagon like there is no tomorrow, just as they all jumped on the biofuel horseless cart before it. With car makers staking their literal futures on it; like Chevy’s Volt, to just about any other car maker. The newest one to join the cavalcade is [...]
Tech Gone Wrong
English anti-terror laws used to spy on their rubbish habits
I can totally understand the need to protect one’s country from those that would do it harm but one has to wonder as well if giving the power to spy on people to wannabe politicians and tinplated Napoleons is the right use of those powers. Nowhere is this abuse of power more visible than in England the once proud bastion of freedom that is now reduced to letting local councils spy on their citizens - all in the name of keeping people safe from terrorists.
Maybe if there was some grand scheme behind the Orwellian behavior I could understand it but by granting local councils in England the ability to enact the Regualtion of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) the door to misuse has been opened. More than half the town halls have admitted to …
Stupid Tech
They’ll never look at SpongeBob the same
I’m not sure who exactly they are targeting this hideous hunk of plastic for but it is definitely something that could give your kid’s nightmares; not to mention SpongeBob will now be regulated to monster in the closet status.
To make matters even worse you can remove those large eyeballs and watch them roll around the [...]
The Social Web
Pissed at Motrin? Time to get a grip
I've been watching this story develop over the weekend as mommyblogger after mommyblogger has been expressing their moral outrage over ...
Kevin Rose Allegedly Guilty of Felony Computer Hacking
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="202" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] If California prosecutors have their way, Digg founder Kevin Rose could easily be found ...
What the hell is wrong with being marketed to?
You know there are times when I think this whole social media rigamarole is getting to be nothing more than ...
The Web
Keep your grimy paws off my ISP’s money
There are time where the 'liberal' artsy fartsy crowd really grates on my last nerve and in Canada they are ...
A WebKit powered Internet Explorer makes sense
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="202" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] It doesn't matter what web developer you talk to but if you want to ...
Forum News
PJ’s Forum Round-Up 16.11.08
It took a bit but with enough beer, I was able to get through the elections. I hope things went just as well for you all. What with all of the telephone calls from the pollster [...]
PJ’s Forum Round-Up 2.11.08
Two days to go until the elections. Ok, ’nuff said about that crap.
The forums have been in a bit of a lull this week.
PJ’s Forum Round-Up 26.10.08
You may have noticed a lack of a post from me last week. I was wrapped up with IRL events and had to take a breather for a bit. I’m back, though, and ready to dish!
Odds & Ends
A gold mine for program junkies
I love programs. That is a fact that I have never tried to hide and while my real love has to be utility programs for Windows I am also hooked [...]
Live Wave 3 Icons - Nice
I have always been an icon fanatic. It probably comes from my days as a developer and always looking for different and interesting icons to use in my software [...]
Firefox is raping my memory
I realize that just about everyone and their brother in the tech work is all infatuated with Firefox but why this browser gets such a walk [...]
Short Notes
A guilty secret - I want a Zune
I know everyone and their brother are iPod fanatics and to them nothing can beat out this epitome of form [...]
A bit of a trip down memory lane
know I joke around a little about being a cranky old fart but there are time when I sti back and look at some of the things I’ve done in my life and I figure the tagline works out pretty good.
Adding a new news section at WinExtra
As much as I love technology and all that it brings to our world it also worries me greatly the ways it can; and is, being used against us as individuals.
